Northwood Space
Forward Deployed Engineer
Why it's interesting
A ground-station startup rebuilding earth-to-space connectivity puts the FDE title on classified mission work — $200K employer-provided in DC, 7+ years of mission-ops and capture-engineering experience. Proof the deployment role has reached space and national-security infrastructure, not just SaaS.
The role
Embed with government and defense customers deploying Northwood's scalable ground-station and mission-networking systems: classified space communications, sensing, and data transport. 7+ years in customer-facing technical roles (solutions/systems engineering, mission operations, capture engineering). DC-based. Sourced via Glassdoor US sweep (2026-07-25), verified on Northwood's own careers site.
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