AdAstra Talent Advisors · 3 months ago
Co-Founding Engineer / Entrepreneur in Residence
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $310K/yr
7+ years expAdAstra Talent Advisors is a headhunting and talent advising firm focused on the Climate, Space, and Defense sectors of Hard Tech. The Founding Team Engineer / Entrepreneur in Residence will be responsible for launching the lab’s first generation of moonshot projects, taking ownership of early-stage ideas and turning them into working prototypes while collaborating across disciplines.
Management Consulting
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Take ownership of early-stage “what if…” ideas, turning them into working prototypes
Drive concepts through design, build, testing, and iteration
Prove feasibility with working demonstrations that open the door to scaling
Collaborate with other specialists, contributing expertise across projects and absorbing new perspectives
Ultimately, grow successful projects into teams and programs under your leadership
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or advanced degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field
7+ years of experience delivering complex systems or equivalent track record of impact
Hands-on experience taking ideas from concept → design → prototype → test → delivery
Ability to thrive in ambiguity and self-direct in an unstructured environment
Strong communicator and collaborator across disciplines
Preferred
Prior work in innovation labs, skunkworks, or early-stage R&D organizations (e.g., Google X, DARPA, Skunkworks, etc.)
Track record of launching successful prototypes in open-ended, high-risk, high-reward domains
Benefits
Strong benefits package
Company
AdAstra Talent Advisors
AdAstra finds the people you need to change the world.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Seyka Mejeur
Founder, CEO, Advisor
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