Albedo

Be one of the Bedo 100 Albedo is making Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mainstream, building the infrastructure to usher every satellite mission set into this new orbital domain. We build buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers to thrive in VLEO, between 250 km - 400 km, where proximity compounds performance and drag self-cleans debris.   As part of the first 100 employees at Albedo, you will have a big impact on Albedo’s trajectory to proliferating VLEO — whether you’re advancing hardware to increase satellite longevity, scaling production for large constellations, building next-gen flight and ground software to push performance, or enabling missions that matter for national security and our day-to-day life here on earth.   How We Operate: Albedo takes a first-principles approach — in space and in business. We move with speed, take calculated risks, and learn quickly. We use AI regularly to create leverage in every discipline across the company. We work in-person at our Broomfield CO HQ to maximize team and company productivity. We work hard and with urgency to compound our first-mover advantage.   Who We're Looking For: Builders who want to own outcomes, not tasks. Systems thinkers who balance precision with iteration while thinking about the big picture. Individuals who are energized by creating a category rather than competing in an existing one. You’ll join a team that has already proven what others said wasn’t feasible and is now scaling and upgrading our VLEO buses & payloads to serve mission sets across sensing, communications, and responsive operations.   If you can feel the excitement running through your veins, apply to be one of the Bedo 100. What You’ll Do: Lead the hardware engineering organization — opto-mechanical, structures, thermal, avionics — across approximately three to four teams of managers and ICs Own design margin discipline against design standards across thermal, structural, radiation, electrical, mass, and optical budgets, and make those margins routine rather than heroic Drive the AIT build flow from primary mirror unit fabrication through bus-to-payload integration through environmental test, eliminating the integration-stage discoveries that should have been caught analytically Set and defend make-vs-buy strategy: vertical integration where the physics is the moat, aggressive outsourcing of commodity, decisions documented and revisited Develop hardware engineering managers who can run their domains without requiring you in every technical decision Partner with the Director of Software, Systems Engineering, and program management to close the analytical loop between hardware design, flight telemetry, and the next build Engage directly in design reviews, anomaly investigations, and supplier technical assessments — operate in the system without becoming a bottleneck Your Ideal Skills and Experience: Twelve-plus years in precision spaceflight hardware, with at least four leading hardware engineering managers Hands-on depth in opto-mechanical engineering, structural dynamics, or precision pointing systems — you have personally owned a precision payload or precision pointing chain end-to-end Track record of design margin discipline against NASA, MIL, or equivalent standards, with examples where your margin calls held up under flight conditions Demonstrated cross-disciplinary system reasoning: you think in budgets across optics, structures, thermal, GNC, mass, and power, and you can trace budget violations to root cause Experience leading hardware through environmental test campaigns and on-orbit anomaly resolution Real make-vs-buy decisions you have owned and can defend with cost, schedule, and capability data Comfort holding a schedule against pressure when the analysis demands it, and yielding when the analysis says you can Salary Range: $204,724 - $236,791 per year Compensation and Benefits for Full-Time Roles: Employee friendly equity compensation 4% direct matching 401

Be one of the Bedo 100 Albedo is making Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mainstream, building the infrastructure to usher every satellite mission set into this new orbital domain. We build buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers to thrive in VLEO, between 250 km - 400 km, where proximity compounds performance and drag self-cleans debris.   As part of the first 100 employees at Albedo, you will have a big impact on Albedo’s trajectory to proliferating VLEO — whether you’re advancing hardware to increase satellite longevity, scaling production for large constellations, building next-gen flight and ground software to push performance, or enabling missions that matter for national security and our day-to-day life here on earth.   How We Operate: Albedo takes a first-principles approach — in space and in business. We move with speed, take calculated risks, and learn quickly. We use AI regularly to create leverage in every discipline across the company. We work in-person at our Broomfield CO HQ to maximize team and company productivity. We work hard and with urgency to compound our first-mover advantage.   Who We're Looking For: Builders who want to own outcomes, not tasks. Systems thinkers who balance precision with iteration while thinking about the big picture. Individuals who are energized by creating a category rather than competing in an existing one. You’ll join a team that has already proven what others said wasn’t feasible and is now scaling and upgrading our VLEO buses & payloads to serve mission sets across sensing, communications, and responsive operations.   If you can feel the excitement running through your veins, apply to be one of the Bedo 100. What You’ll Do: Lead the software engineering organization — FSW, GNC, applied AI, ground — across approximately three to four teams of managers and ICs Own the integrated software performance of the satellite: deterministic flight software, control law implementation and verification, on-orbit and on-ground AI, and the command-and-control path Manage the simulation and HIL infrastructure that scales across the program and stays honestly flight-like Lead the closure of the GNC analytical-to-flight loop so that anomalies trace cleanly to model gaps or implementation bugs without ambiguity Develop technical leaders in each software domain (including domains outside your strongest) and resist the gravity to over-invest in your home discipline Defend the boundary between flight software and ground tooling, and the boundary between software and hardware, against drift Partner with the Director of Hardware, Systems Engineering, and Program Management to make software a peer of hardware in the system Your Ideal Skills and Experience: Twelve-plus years in real-time embedded, GNC, or flight software, with at least four leading software engineering managers Deep fluency in deterministic flight or flight-like software: timing, scheduling, fault containment, C++ on RTOS GNC literacy at the leadership level - you cannot derive every Kalman variant from scratch, but you can engage substantively with control law structure, estimator behavior, actuator interaction, and their failure modes, and you have done so in your own career Track record of building simulation and HIL infrastructure that caught real bugs before flight, and post-mortem discipline that changed the pipeline when bugs survived Experience leading heterogeneous software teams across domains you did not personally come up through Real opinions on the HW/SW boundary, on-orbit vs ground compute split, and where abstractions earn their keep Salary Range: $200,000 - $218,830 per year Compensation and Benefits for Full-Time Roles: Employee friendly equity compensation 4% direct matching 401k Health Insurance: 100% employee coverage & 75% dependent coverage Parental leave and childcare coverage Flexible vacation and sick time from day one 12 company holidays $100 monthly wellness benefit Relocation package

Be one of the Bedo 100 Albedo is making Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mainstream, building the infrastructure to usher every satellite mission set into this new orbital domain. We build buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers to thrive in VLEO, between 250 km - 400 km, where proximity compounds performance and drag self-cleans debris.   As part of the first 100 employees at Albedo, you will have a big impact on Albedo’s trajectory to proliferating VLEO — whether you’re advancing hardware to increase satellite longevity, scaling production for large constellations, building next-gen flight and ground software to push performance, or enabling missions that matter for national security and our day-to-day life here on earth.   How We Operate: Albedo takes a first-principles approach — in space and in business. We move with speed, take calculated risks, and learn quickly. We use AI regularly to create leverage in every discipline across the company. We work in-person at our Broomfield CO HQ to maximize team and company productivity. We work hard and with urgency to compound our first-mover advantage.   Who We're Looking For: Builders who want to own outcomes, not tasks. Systems thinkers who balance precision with iteration while thinking about the big picture. Individuals who are energized by creating a category rather than competing in an existing one. You’ll join a team that has already proven what others said wasn’t feasible and is now scaling and upgrading our VLEO buses & payloads to serve mission sets across sensing, communications, and responsive operations.   If you can feel the excitement running through your veins, apply to be one of the Bedo 100. What You’ll Do: Own full-cycle recruiting for highly specialized aerospace and engineering roles across GNC, flight software, ground software, FPGA, electric propulsion, optical systems, payload, systems engineering, and business functions Partner directly with hiring managers and founders to scope roles, define success criteria, and build structured interview processes that move quickly without sacrificing quality Build and maintain candidate pipelines for both active and anticipated hiring needs, using a mix of LinkedIn Recruiter, JuiceboxAI, referrals, and direct sourcing Administer and continuously improve our Greenhouse ATS, including interview kits, scorecards, workflows, and reporting Own compensation benchmarking and offer strategy using Pave and Carta, partnering with leadership on salary band construction Develop and deliver interviewer training, scorecard calibration, and hiring manager enablement to raise the bar on interview quality across the company Maintain Albedo's hiring documentation and process library in Notion, ensuring the recruiting function scales without losing structure Contribute to employer branding and careers-site content, including outbound messaging, candidate-facing collateral, and conference or campus strategy Track and report on funnel metrics such as time-to-fill, pass-through rates, offer acceptance, sourcing channel effectiveness, using the data to drive decisions and improve processes  Your Ideal Skills and Experience: 7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with meaningful time recruiting deep technical ICs (hardware, firmware, systems, or flight software preferred) Prior experience in aerospace, defense, hard tech, or another highly specialized technical domain; ITAR/export-control awareness is a strong plus Demonstrated success hiring into small, specialized talent pools where sourcing creativity and messaging craft matter more than volume Fluency with Greenhouse (or comparable ATS), LinkedIn Recruiter, and modern sourcing tools (JuiceboxAI, Gem, etc.) Experience partnering directly with founders or executive-level hiring managers; comfortable pushing back with data when a role scope or offer strategy needs reworking Strong compensation fluency; hands-on experience with Pave, Carta, or