Director of Structures and Mechanisms
Los Angelesonsitedirector$165K – $220K
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About this role
Director of Structures and Mechanisms
Location: Playa Vista, California (in-person, five days per week)
About Outpost
Launch has changed the economics of space. Now it is time to return. Outpost is building the missing infrastructure between orbit and Earth: reusable vehicles that bring payloads back from space and deliver them to a precise location within hours, exologistics at planetary scale. Core technologies are advancing toward flight readiness, and we've validated demand through multiple defense and civil agreements with a growing commercial pipeline. We're scaling rapidly, this is the point where execution and scale define the outcome.
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