Systems Architect / Technical Product Lead (All levels)

Redwire is an innovative space and defense technology company driving advanced capabilities across the aerospace sector. We are looking for a leader who can contribute to concept of operations development, mission solution design, and strategic analysis for spacecraft programs supporting National Security Space. This includes work spanning space domain awareness, space resiliency, mission autonomy, structures, sensors, and next‑generation space systems.

Software Architect / Technical Product Lead — The technical authority responsible for defining, governing, and evolving a digital ecosystem that underpins the company’s emulation, simulation, digital‑engineering, data, and software platforms. This role blends systems full‑stack technical expertise and product leadership to ensure corporate modeling, simulation, digital‑threads, and software capabilities are coherent, scalable, secure, and aligned with mission and business objectives. You will guide enterprise‑level architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and shape the long‑term technical roadmap for enterprise systems.

Major Responsibilities

• Champion integration of Digital Engineering MBSE practices, SysML modeling, and digital‑thread integration across Redwire’s enterprise.
• Define system‑level architectures spanning modeling & simulation, backend services, data platforms, digital‑engineering workflows, and UI/UX integration. Oversee virtual system integration, verification, and validation strategies for multi‑domain systems.
• Build and scale knowledge‑graph or graph‑oriented data system architectures supporting simulation and digital‑engineering workflows.
• Design and simulate system and subsystem interfaces across agentic methodologies, software, databases, simulation, and hardware boundaries to enable the ability to connect, access, and share proprietary data.
• Maintain digital twins for spacecraft, mission systems, and engineering workflows, ensuring traceability and configuration integrity.
• Translate mission needs and business objectives into architectural roadmaps, capability definitions, and execution plans. Work closely with systems engineers, simulation experts, software teams, mission analysts, and product leaders to align architecture with program goals.
• Present architectural strategies, tradeoffs, and roadmaps to executives, customers, and technical stakeholders.

Ideal Experience

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

7‑15 years of experience architecting complex software, simulation, or mission‑critical systems, including multi‑team technical leadership. Knowledge of data‑modeling, storage strategies, indexing, lineage, and governance across relational, graph, and document databases.

Full‑Stack Engineering Leadership

Deep experience building and owning production systems across frontend, backend, and distributed service layers. Strong understanding of concurrency, caching, distributed systems, and performance optimization across the stack.

Modeling & Simulation Expertise

Deep expertise in physics‑based modeling, digital twins, digital threads, MBSE/SysML, and simulation‑driven system design. Previously led design and evolution of simulation engines, scenario frameworks, and AI‑augmented simulation workflows.

Modern Frontend Architecture

Expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, scalable UI architectures, and performance‑critical visualization interfaces. Architect REST, GraphQL, and gRPC ecosystems, including schema governance, versioning, and cross‑service contract management.

High‑Performance Backend Systems

Proficiency with Python, C++, and/or Rust for APIs, microservices, simulation‑adjacent services, and high‑throughput backend systems. Ability to architect compute environments spanning on‑prem clusters, GPU/accelerated compute, Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud deployments.

DevSecOps Alignment

Strong grounding in DevSecOps principles, supply‑chain security, secrets management, and compliance frameworks.

Executive Communication

Present architectural strategies, tradeoffs, and roadmaps to executives, customers, and technical stakeholders. Work closely with systems engineers, simulation experts, software teams, mission analysts, and product leaders to align architecture with program goals.

Security Eligibility

U.S. Citizen; able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance.

Desired Skills

Mission‑System Architecture

Experience architecting systems for aerospace, defense, robotics, or other high‑integrity domains. Proficiency with Cameo Systems Modeler, Teamwork Cloud, or comparable MBSE tools.

Physics‑Based Modeling

Advanced experience with MATLAB/Simulink or Python scientific libraries for numerical modeling and simulation.

Simulation Workflows

Exposure to mission design, configuration analysis, trade‑space exploration, or simulation orchestration. Understanding of 2D/3D visualization frameworks (WebGL, Three.js, R3F, Cesium) and their integration with simulation backends.

HPC & GPU‑Accelerated Simulation

Familiarity with heterogeneous compute pipelines, GPU kernels, and large‑scale simulation orchestration.

Systems Engineering Certifications

INCOSE CSEP/ESEP, OCSMP, cloud architecture certifications, or equivalent.

Requirements Management

Experience with Jama, DOORS, or similar tools.

Enterprise Architecture Vision

Own the long‑term architectural vision across simulation, data, backend, frontend, and infrastructure systems. Establish coding standards, API governance, data‑modeling conventions, and architectural review processes.

Mentor Senior Engineers

Provide technical mentorship, architectural coaching, and career guidance to senior and staff‑level engineers.

Drive Cross‑Team Alignment

Ensure architectural coherence across simulation, DevOps, systems engineering, and product teams.

Evaluate Emerging Technologies

Assess new tools, frameworks, and methodologies for strategic adoption.

Support Proposals & Customer Engagements

Contribute to technical proposals, customer briefings, and architecture‑focused reviews.

Benefits

Redwire offers a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Redwire Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with MIS is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Background Check

All offers of employment at Redwire Space are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check.

Export Compliance

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.