Albuquerque, New Mexico, US (On-site)1 open job
Aether Aerospace is a U.S. defense technology platform formed in 2025 from CTSi, EXPANSIA, JHNA, and TSA, delivering digital engineering, open architecture, simulation, prototyping, and advanced manufacturing to DoD and national security customers.
Aether Aerospace is a defense technology platform built to sell into the hardest customer set there is: the U.S. Department of Defense and the wider national security establishment. The company was assembled in 2025 from a merger of four firms - CTSi, EXPANSIA, JHNA, and TSA - and now operates as a multi-entity enterprise delivering high-impact technologies, technology-enabled services, and advanced manufacturing solutions. Its stated customer base spans all services of the Department of War, NASA, and commercial partners, with a footprint confined to the United States.
The technical surface is broad and it runs deep into systems that matter: digital engineering and Digital Engineering Ecosystems, open architecture solutions, modeling and simulation, advanced prototyping, advanced manufacturing, unmanned systems, and aviation modernization. In practice that means engineering toolchains, model repositories, simulation environments, and interface definitions that touch flight-adjacent and mission-adjacent programs across air, land, sea, and space. Open architecture work in particular is an interesting problem: it trades monolithic obscurity for documented interfaces and composable systems, which is good engineering and also a different attack surface to reason about.
Worth stating plainly: Aether Aerospace has not published specifics about its security organization, tooling stack, or threat model in the material available here. What is documented is the domain - defense and national security programs, digital engineering ecosystems, and unmanned platforms - and the operating posture the company describes: lean and agile principles, mission-focused teams, and a multi-entity structure positioned for scalable growth and operational excellence. The company frames its purpose around strengthening the Warfighter's advantage. Candidates should expect the environment to come with the compliance, clearance, and data-handling constraints typical of DoD and national security work, and should press on the specifics in conversation.
