Hypersonic reentry vehicles for rapid cargo delivery from orbit
Inversion builds reentry vehicles designed to deliver cargo from space to points on Earth, with its Arc hypersonic vehicle at the center of current work. Hiring is overwhelmingly engineering and senior-weighted, and the stack pairs aerospace tools (STK, ANSYS Mechanical, Siemens NX, CATIA, Zemax, Altium) with Rust, C++, Kubernetes and Terraform. That points to a software-defined hardware shop investing in simulation infrastructure and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Notable leadership hires: Director of Engineering, Business Development Director
Inversion is a privately held space logistics company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Playa Vista, California. It develops vehicles that return payloads from orbit to precise locations on Earth, with an emphasis on fast delivery timelines. Job posts reference national security needs as a driver, indicating defense customers are a focus. The company sits in the 51–200 employee range and hires in the United States across engineering, manufacturing and a small business development function.
Inversion uses Python, C++, Rust, Fortran and MATLAB, aerospace tools like STK, ANSYS Mechanical, Siemens NX, CATIA and Zemax, Altium Designer for PCBs, and AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform for infrastructure.
Inversion is developing the Arc hypersonic reentry vehicle, including core flight software, avionics for next-generation vehicles, thermal protection testing, precision landing and recovery systems, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Inversion is headquartered in Playa Vista, California, and currently hires in the United States, with most openings in engineering and some in manufacturing.
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