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 nextgeneration space systems. The
AI/ML Engineer designs, builds, and scales the backend, data, and computational infrastructure that powers intelligent agents, autonomous workflows, and AIdriven decision systems. This role blends highperformance backend engineering, graphcentric data modeling, realtime processing, and secure API design with emerging agentic architectures. You will work across simulation, data, and systems engineering teams to deliver intelligent, reliable, and missionaligned agentic capabilities supporting aerospace, defense, and other highintegrity environments.
Major Responsibilities
Develop agentic system capabilities - Build and integrate AI agents, autonomous workflows, and LLMdriven decision systems into backend architectures.
Design highperformance backend services - Implement lowlatency, highthroughput services in Python, C++, or Rust.
Architect realtime processing pipelines - Build deterministic, concurrent, or multithreaded pipelines for realtime agentic decision loops.
Develop and govern dataaccess layers - Implement indexing, query optimization, and datamodel governance for evolving knowledge domains.
Build and optimize APIs - Design REST, GraphQL, and gRPC interfaces with strong schema governance and versioning.
Integrate graphcentric data systems - Model agent memory, context graphs, and reasoning structures using graph databases.
Ensure reliability and observability - Implement logging, metrics, tracing, error handling, and automated testing.
Collaborate across engineering domains - Work with systems engineers, simulation experts, analysts, and DevOps to define clean integration boundaries.
Support secure and compliant operations - Apply authentication, authorization, secrets management, and securebydesign principles.
Ideal Experience
STEM foundation - Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Backend & systems engineering - 1-5 years building backend systems, distributed services, or datadriven pipelines.
Highperformance programming - Proficiency in Python, C++, or Rust for lowlatency or highthroughput systems.
Agentic system integration - Experience integrating AI agents, autonomous workflows, or LLMbased decision systems.
Graphcentric data modeling - Experience with Neo4j, DGraph, ArangoDB, or similar technologies.
Database schema & modeling - Experience with relational, graph, and document databases.
Realtime processing - Experience with concurrent, deterministic, or multithreaded pipelines.
Highthroughput data APIs - Experience with streaming systems and binary transport formats.
Networking & data transport - Expertise with UDP/TCP, Pub/Sub, and distributed messaging.
GPUaccelerated computation - Understanding of CUDA, GPU kernels, or heterogeneous compute architectures.
API design expertise - Experience designing REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs.
Microservice architectures - Familiarity with containerized deployments and servicetoservice patterns.
CI/CD integration - Experience integrating backend services into CI/CD pipelines.
Service reliability fundamentals - Observability, error handling, contract validation, and automated testing.
API & data security - Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure dataaccess patterns.
Engineering rigor - Experience working in aerospace/defense or other highintegrity environments.
Security eligibility - U.S. Citizen; able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred).
Desired Skills
Multiprotocol API development - REST, gRPC, SOAP, GraphQL.
Agentoriented data structures - Modeling agent memory, context graphs, or reasoning chains.
HPCadjacent workflows - Simulation data, scientific computation, or datadense analytics.
Simulation & modeling systems - Integrating AI agents with simulation engines or digitalengineering tools.
Distributed computation frameworks - Job orchestration, distributed compute, or Monte Carlo automation.
Highrate data processing - Optimizing ingestion and processing for highrate sensor or telemetry data.
Regulated industry exposure - Aerospace, defense, robotics, or similar domains.
Internal tooling development - Tools or libraries used across engineering teams.
Crossfunctional collaboration - Work with systems engineers, analysts, simulation experts, and product teams.
Opensource contributions - Contributions to backend frameworks, agent libraries, or datamodeling tools.
Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration!
We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.
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All offers of employment at Redwire Space are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check.
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. Learn more about the Click Here |
Redwire Space
Jul 14, 2026