Lodestar is building the first autonomous AI fighter-pilot for space, to power in-orbit bodyguard satellites and deliver orbital defence as a service to high-value assets. Backed by Entrepreneur First.
About the role
Our engineering team is building some of the most technically sophisticated autonomous systems in the defense space ecosystem. Your job is to make sure that sophistication is translated into winning contracts.
What they're looking for
- 3 to 6 years of hands-on technical proposal writing experience supporting DoD, DoW, NASA, or IC customers. We need someone who can execute independently on day one
- Proven ability to decompose complex solicitations independently — Section L/M analysis, compliance matrix development, annotated outlines — before a single word of narrative is written
- Experience across multiple acquisition vehicles: RFPs, OTAs, CSOs, BAAs, and SBIRs. Non-traditional defense acquisition pathways are a significant part of our pipeline
- Exceptional written communication skills. Your proposals should read like they were written by someone who understands the mission — not assembled from a library of boilerplate
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and self-reliance. There is no proposal center here. You own it end to end
More about this role
Lodestar Space is rewriting the paradigm of national security in orbit. We don't wait for a decade-long government requirements cycle; we build autonomous capabilities ahead of the threat and deliver them at the speed of relevance.
As space transforms into a contested operational and war-fighting domain, our national security assets and critical infrastructure that underpins our modern way of life faces unprecedented vulnerabilities. Lodestar addresses this crisis head-on. We are the architects of Mithril , the world's first fully autonomous, AI-driven intelligence designed to operate independently in space. We're building Mithril to autonomously maneuver and enable complex RPO missions, while simultaneously conducting the length of the kill-chain from detection, classification and intent prediction, to responding to orbital threats in denied environments. Combining cutting-edge machine vision, onboard edge computing, and pioneering fires and effects architectures, Lodestar gives warfighters and commercial operators unprecedented situational awareness and space superiority in the final frontier.
Backed by elite deep-tech venture capital, international space agencies and government...
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