140 Defense Tech Jobs 🚀
Mo Money, Mo Jobs: Jobs at Mariana Minerals, Method Security, Mythic, and more!
Good morning,
Fresh Capital, Fresh Roles…
Valar Atomics — 54 open roles
Engineering and corporate roles in Hawthorne, CA (e.g., CFD Analyst, Manufacturing Engineer, Fire Protection Engineer, Legal Counsel), while Orangeville is site buildout and nuclear ops (Health Physicist, Plant Operator, Structural Concrete Superintendent, Nuclear Operations Manager).
Mariana Minerals — 64 open roles
$310M Series B led by Khosla, with a16z and Breakthrough Energy participating, bringing total to $400M at a $1.5B valuation. Roles skew SF autonomy engineering (Mechatronics, ML Engineer, Perception), general G&A roles in Houston, TX, and site roles in Moab, UT.
Base Power — 168 open roles
$1B Series D at a $13B post-money (their second billion-dollar round in ten months). The valuation more than tripled in ten months. This is a fast-growing (600+ member) team, and the vast majority of roles are Austin-based and 100% in person.
Now, onto the jobs…
📈 Growth Family Jobs (BD, Sales, Contracting)
Blue Origin (space launch) - Sr. Manager, National Security Sales - Arlington, VA / Titusville, FL / Denver, CO
Method Security (autonomous cyber defense) - CYBERCOM Growth Lead - Washington, DC
Mythic (analog AI compute) - VP, Marketing - Palo Alto, CA
Shield AI (AI pilot) - Territory Business Development Manager, Intel/Space Force - Washington, DC
Shift5 (OT observability) - Air Force Strategic Account Executive - Arlington, VA
TurbineOne (frontline machine learning) - Principal, Business Development Marine Corps - Remote
Voyager Technologies (space and defense systems) - Business Development Manager – Space Electronics - San Diego, CA / Long Beach, CA
📋 Strategy & Ops Family Jobs (Biz Ops, People, CoS, Finance)
Anduril (autonomy) - Head of Aftermarket Strategy & Offering Management, Europe - London, United Kingdom
Base Power (home batteries / power) - Head of Regulatory Policy - Austin, TX
Chainalysis (blockchain data) - Head of Policy, North America - Washington, DC
Harbinger (commercial EVs) - Principal, Capital Markets and Strategy - Garden Grove, CA
Infleqtion (quantum computing) - Director of Accounting Operations - Louisville, CO
Planet Labs (satellite / geospatial data) - Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition - San Francisco, CA
🏗️ Product Family Jobs (Product, Program, Success)
Armada (edge computing) - Principal Product Manager, AEP Foundation & Partner Platforms - Bellevue, WA
Firefly Aerospace (space launch) - Senior Quality Manager, Space Systems Production - Texas
Govini (defense acquisition software) - Principal Product Manager, Supply Chain & Sustainment - Arlington, VA / Pittsburgh, PA
Muon Space (LEO satellites) - Senior Program Manager, Secure Space Data Systems - San Jose, CA
Recorded Future (threat intelligence) - Sr.Product Manager, Threat Intelligence Analytics - London, United Kingdom
Scale AI (AI data platform) - Director of Product Strategy, Physical AI - San Francisco, CA
🔨 Engineering - Hardware
CesiumAstro (phased arrays) - Principal Spacecraft Mechanical Engineer - Westminster, CO
Chaos Industries (advanced sensing) - Staff RF Engineer - El Segundo, CA
Divergent (digital manufacturing) - Senior Mechanical Engineer - Torrance, CA
Impulse Space (in-space mobility) - Lead Manufacturing Engineer - Redondo Beach, CA
TerraPower (advanced nuclear) - Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Fuel - Bellevue, WA
🧑💻 Engineering - Software
Gallatin AI (military logistics AI) - Infrastructure Engineer - El Segundo, CA / Austin, TX / San Francisco, CA / Washington, DC
Parallel Systems (autonomous rail) - Senior ML Ops Engineer - Los Angeles, CA
Sift (hardware observability) - Senior Software Engineer, Frontend - San Francisco, CA
STR (defense R&D) - Autonomy Algorithms Senior Software Engineer - Woburn, MA / Arlington, VA / Dayton, OH
Striveworks (ML ops) - Senior Data Scientist / Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Senior Software Engineer (all Active TS/SCI) - Northern Virginia
Vannevar Labs (defense intelligence software) - Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack, Security Platform - Remote
Varda (in-space manufacturing) - Senior Space Ground Systems Software Engineer - El Segundo, CA
📝 Internships
Skydio (drones):
Product Management Intern - San Mateo, CA
Electrical Engineer Intern - San Mateo, CA
Product Design Engineer Intern - San Mateo, CA
Operations Program Management Intern - Hayward, CA
Formlabs (3D printing) - Hardware R&D Engineering Intern (Fall 2026) - Somerville, MA
Impulse Space (in-space mobility) - Precision Cleaning Intern (Fall 2026) - Redondo Beach, CA
Joby Aviation (eVTOL ridesharing) - Flight Test Intern (Dec 2026-Feb 2027) - Marina, CA
Palantir (big data analytics) - Product Designer, Internship - US Government - Palo Alto, CA
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