Why LeoLabs?

At LeoLabs, we’re building the living map of activity in space. Through our proprietary global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform, we collect millions of measurements daily on more than 25,000 objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). Our radar-powered intelligence protects billions in assets, monitors adversarial behavior, and ensures safe operations for commercial and government missions.

We’re not just building technology, we are redefining global security, safety, and transparency in space. As orbital activity accelerates and threats grow more complex, LeoLabs is a trusted partner for Space Domain Awareness, Space Traffic Management, and Satellite Operations for top-tier space operators and allied defense organizations.

If you're looking to work on mission-critical challenges at the forefront of aerospace, national security, and AI, your impact starts here. 

We are seeking a Mission Integration Apprentice through the SkillBridge program. This role is designed for transitioning service members interested in gaining hands-on experience and professional development during the transition from military to civilian careers.

LeoLabs is seeking a highly experienced SkillBridge participant to support mission integration, strategic customer engagement, and product strategy across the national security space and missile defense communities. 

This opportunity is designed for a transitioning or retiring military professional with senior-level experience in space operations, Space Domain Awareness, missile warning and tracking, intelligence, acquisition, or operational command and control. The ideal candidate will help LeoLabs strengthen the connection between U.S. Government mission needs and LeoLabs’ commercial space capabilities, ensuring that product development, customer engagement, and mission integration efforts remain closely aligned with evolving national security priorities. 

This role will operate at the intersection of operational mission needs, customer engagement, and product management. The participant will help translate real-world mission requirements into actionable product, program, and go-to-market recommendations, with a particular focus on U.S. Space Force, Space Systems Command, BMC3I stakeholders, the Missile Defense Agency, Combatant Commands, and Intelligence Community customers. 

Core Responsibilities 

Mission & Customer Integration 

• Support LeoLabs’ engagement with U.S. Space Force, Space Systems Command, Combatant Commands, the Missile Defense Agency, Intelligence Community partners, and related national security stakeholders. 
• Help identify operational challenges, mission gaps, and emerging customer priorities across Space Domain Awareness, missile warning and tracking, terrestrial space sensors, space superiority, and operational command-and-control environments. 
• Provide insight into the mission needs of key customer communities, including SSC, BMC3I organizations, MDA, operational Space Force units, and joint force users. 
• Contribute to LeoLabs’ understanding of operational mission workflows, decision timelines, data requirements, and integration pathways within government architectures. 
• Assist in building and strengthening relationships across operational, technical, acquisition, and senior mission leadership communities. 

Product & Operational Alignment 

• Provide operational perspective to support product requirements planning, capability development, and mission-focused product strategy. 
• Translate customer and mission-user feedback into actionable product requirements, roadmap inputs, and program recommendations. 
• Support validation of operational assumptions, user workflows, mission requirements, and integration concepts. 
• Contribute to the definition and refinement of mission use cases, operational concepts, product requirements, and customer-facing capability narratives. 
• Help ensure LeoLabs product development remains aligned with priority customer needs across SDA, missile warning and tracking, terrestrial sensor integration, BMC3I, and space operations. 

Strategic Growth & Adoption 

• Support awareness, adoption, and operational understanding of LeoLabs capabilities across relevant U.S. Government mission areas. 
• Assist with customer engagement activities, executive briefings, demonstrations, mission-focused discussions, and operational use-case development. 
• Help identify opportunities where LeoLabs solutions can address capability gaps for Space Force, SSC, MDA, BMC3I, Combatant Command, and Intelligence Community customers. 
• Contribute to long-term alignment between customer mission priorities, government acquisition pathways, and LeoLabs product strategy. 
• Support development of customer-specific messaging, mission narratives, and value propositions for senior government and defense stakeholders. 

Desired Background 

• Senior operational or acquisition experience within the U.S. Space Force, Space Systems Command, Missile Defense Agency, Air Force space community, Intelligence Community, Combatant Commands, or related national security organizations. 
• Familiarity with one or more of the following mission areas: 
• Space Domain Awareness  
• Missile warning and missile tracking  
• Space superiority or space control  
• Operational command and control  
• Terrestrial or space-based sensor operations  
• BMC3I architectures and mission integration  
• Defense acquisition, requirements, or program execution  
• Strong understanding of operational mission execution, customer workflows, command center operations, and senior leader decision processes. 
• Ability to communicate effectively across technical, operational, acquisition, and executive audiences. 
• Experience working with or around U.S. Government space and missile defense customer bases, including SSC, MDA, Space Force operational units, Combatant Commands, and Intelligence Community mission partners. 
• Interest in helping commercial space capabilities transition into operationally relevant national security solutions. 

SkillBridge Objectives 

• Participants will gain direct exposure to: 
• Commercial space operations and mission support  
• Product strategy and operational requirements development  
• Government customer engagement and mission integration  
• Cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, business development, and mission teams  
• National security space product development within a commercial environment  
• Customer adoption pathways across Space Force, SSC, BMC3I, MDA, Combatant Command, and Intelligence Community mission areas  

Position Value Proposition 

• This SkillBridge opportunity provides a senior transitioning military professional the ability to apply decades of operational, acquisition, or mission leadership experience to a fast-growing commercial space company directly supporting national security missions. 
• The participant will help shape how LeoLabs aligns its products, data, sensors, and mission capabilities to the needs of the U.S. Government, while gaining hands-on experience in commercial product strategy, customer engagement, and national security space business development.