Company profile

North Wind Tech Stack

Hypersonic ground test facilities, test services and flight systems

Defense and Space Manufacturing St. Paul, MN 201–500 employees Privately Held

North Wind designs, builds and operates hypersonic and wind tunnel test infrastructure for aerospace and defense programs. Its stack pairs MBSE and requirements tooling (SysML, Cameo, Jama Connect, IBM DOORS) with LabVIEW, Allen-Bradley and Siemens PLCs, pointing to a rigorous, controls-heavy engineering shop. Accelerating, senior- and director-weighted engineering hiring lines up with new tunnel builds and major facility upgrades.

Tech Stack 39 technologies

Core StackSAP AutoCAD Revit SolidWorks Python MATLAB C++ Siemens Kubernetes Jira Java Allen-Bradley Power BI Tableau SysML Cameo Systems Modeler Jama Connect IBM DOORS LabVIEW ANSYS Fortran Dassault Ethereum Virtual Machine NX PLCs AutoCAD Electrical SOLIDWORKS Electrical Siemens PLCs MagicDraw Deltek Costpoint+9 more

What North Wind Is BuildingChallenges and projects from their job posts

◆Challenges

Budget, schedule and complex program scheduling pressure
Accelerating test and evaluation cycles
Maintaining safe availability of test tunnels
Managing compliant, cross-functional proposal submissions
Reducing energy consumption costs and demand

▲Active Projects

Designing and integrating new hypersonic tunnel facilities
Major capability upgrades to existing facilities
Wind tunnel and hypersonic ground test projects
Wind tunnel data processing pipelines
CAD modeling for hypersonic ground test systems
Integrated master schedules and BCR process

Hiring Activity

Accelerating35 roles · 15 in 30d

Department

Engineering

Ops

Construction

Data

Fabrication

Legal

Manufacturing

Operations

Seniority

Senior

Director

Lead

Manager

Mid

Principal

Notable leadership hires: Chief Engineer

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About North Wind

North Wind is a privately held aerospace and defense company headquartered in St. Paul, MN, with 201–500 employees. It provides research, development, test and evaluation capabilities focused on hypersonic and mission-critical systems. Its work spans applied R&D, test articles and system components, test facility design and construction, test services, and flight testing. Customers include defense and commercial aerospace programs seeking turnkey support across the system life cycle. Hiring is concentrated in the United States.

HeadquartersSt. Paul, MN

Company Size201–500 employees

Hiring MarketsUnited States

Frequently Asked Questions

What tech stack does North Wind use?

North Wind uses SysML, Cameo Systems Modeler, Jama Connect and IBM DOORS for systems engineering, plus LabVIEW, ANSYS, SolidWorks, NX, MATLAB, Python, Allen-Bradley PLCs, SAP and Deltek Costpoint.

Is North Wind hiring engineers?

Yes. Hiring is accelerating and engineering dominates open roles, skewed toward senior and director levels, including a Chief Engineer position, all in the United States.

What is North Wind working on?

Job posts point to new wind tunnel facilities, hypersonic ground test design and integration, major upgrades to existing facilities, and wind tunnel data processing pipelines.

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