Forward Deployed Aerospace Engineer
Stell
United States · Los Angeles, CA, USA · American Canyon, CA, USA · Outpost Estates, Los Angeles, CA, USA
USD 150k-200k / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 26, 2025
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Forward Deployed Aerospace Engineer
Stell Engineering, Inc
🌊 San Francisco or Los Angeles, CA based
🏮 This is an in-person role. 3 days per week on site required at either SF (downtown financial district “FiDi”) or LA (Venice Beach)
🇺🇸 Must be US citizen or green card holder (due to ITAR restrictions)
💫 Our customers include DOD programs, ship builders, launch vehicle providers, battery developers, and more
📅 We are hiring for this position to start ASAP
About Stell
Stell helps engineers at hardware companies in heavily-regulated industries (Space, Aviation, Medical Devices) do documentation and tracking of technical contract compliance.
Our product replaces legacy requirements management and supplier portal software systems.
Stell’s key innovations are (1) a user-interface for building text-rich documentation while enabling the complex linking needed to describe hardware systems, and (2) secure collaboration on technical contracts, replacing email and PDFs for our customers and their customers.
Stell’s simple yet powerful interface makes collaboration across internal teams and external partners (like suppliers) fast - so you can supercharge your engineering projects ⚡
In this Forward Deployed Aerospace Engineer role you will:
Embed with customers virtually or onsite to get them set up on Stell during onboarding.
Attend weekly calls with active customers to ensure they are accomplishing their projects with speed and success.
Travel to conferences with Stell team and speak directly to customers and prospective customers about using Stell, generally how to choose a tooling stack, advances in aerospace systems engineering processes.
Contribute to product development and design - work directly with software engineers, designers, and our leadership team to implement features that automate and digitize systems engineering workflows. You may write Product Requirements Documents (PRDs).
Maintain customer requested features list and ensure development team is appropriately prioritizing customer requests.
Dig in with customers on their requests to understand their goals and problems vs. taking feature request at face value. Maintain detailed notes and serve as expert so that our engineering team can quickly implement solutions.
If a customer is blocked, you will get on the phone with them within hours to ensure they can complete their work. Then work with Stell team to fix any bugs and fold in improvements on appropriate timelines.
This may be a good fit if you:
Are an aerospace engineer looking to break into tech and get into a fast paced start up environment.
You were known for breaking the mold as an engineer - you were always hacking together new automations, spreadsheets, and process changes - no matter how hard it was to take to Change Control Board!
You have experience at large aerospace and defense companies getting disparate groups of stakeholders to consider and complete a process a change. You may have done this as a manufacturing engineer, quality engineer, or systems engineer.
You are extremely positive and approach others anxieties and apprehension to change with understanding and appreciation. Problems and concerns are real, but we will solve them - and quickly! You listen and then find solutions.
You are an excellent technical writer and are passionate about detailed, practical communication.
Nice to haves:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or in an equivalent technical discipline
Prior security clearance
3+ years of systems engineering experience using Model-Based Systems Engineering tools, such as Sparx EA, MagicDraw or Cameo, DOORS, or IBM Rhapsody in support of space-related (space on-orbit, ground system, software or hardware systems) Major Defense Acquisition Programs
Experience mapping system requirements to physical and functional architecture and conducting configuration management of system configurations
Experience with the development of technical specifications, interface control documents, integration plans and schedules, inter-service support agreements, system behavior diagrams, sequence diagrams, and network diagrams in DOORS, Cameo, or similar
What Stell brings to the table:
Flexibility and autonomy at work in a hybrid work environment - we have offices in SF or LA and are in-office 3 days a week
Mission to support the aerospace and US manufacturing ecosystem - Stell exists to serve hardware engineers developing and building some of the most important tech in our time (rockets, satellites, drones!)
Sizable equity - you become an owner of this company
Competitive salary
Healthcare, vision, dental
Salary Range:
$150-$200k/year commensurate with experience
Next Steps:
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Email malory@stell-engineering.com with your resume and why you think Stell might be a good fit for you!