Senior Engagement Engineer
Sitreps · Los Angeles, California
Posted about 3 months ago · $180,000-$220,000
or apply directly on Sitreps's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Sitreps's roles stay open a median of 74 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 86% of Sitreps's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Sitreps
- high 56 stale, 0 reposted of 56 open
- Hiring momentum
- 76 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-24
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Sitreps's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Sitreps.
About this role
The Director of Technical Operations will bridge the gap between the company's AI design software and its aerospace clients, ensuring technical accuracy and customer satisfaction. This role involves hands-on work with modeling and validation, direct customer engagement, and translating client needs into actionable engineering tasks. The position requires strong technical expertise and the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Sitreps as an employer.
What you need
- U.S. citizenship
- Active U.S. security clearance at the Secret level or above
- Military or defense background
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or hard science
- Hands-on depth in applied machine learning, numerical optimization, or physics-based modeling and simulation
- A track record of client-facing technical work
Nice to have
- Active Top Secret clearance
- Experience at a successful aerospace, space, or deep-tech startup
- Working familiarity with spacecraft subsystems
- Master's or doctorate in engineering, physics, or a related field
What you get
- $180,000-$220,000 base salary plus meaningful equity
- Real flexibility above the salary band for exceptional candidates
- Substantive option pool for equity grants
Worth weighing
- No salary listed, only a range provided
- Role does not involve writing production software, focusing instead on technical ownership and customer interaction
- Company is in seed-stage funding, which may imply higher risk
- Expect periodic travel, roughly a week a month
Summarised from Sitreps's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Sitreps on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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