# Research & Development Engineer

Description As Paragon Space Development Corporation celebrates over 33 years of delivering life support and thermal control solutions for extreme environments, we remain focused on what drives our success: our people. By any measure, Paragon is an exciting, dynamic, and rewarding place to build your career. Our goal is simple-hire exceptional talent and empower you to do work you truly enjoy. Paragon is advancing a broad range of thermal control technologies, including integrated systems for orbital habitats, spacesuits, lunar in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) systems, and battery thermal-runaway containment enclosures. We also develop component-level solutions such as cryogenic fluid storage systems, atmospheric revitalization technologies, water recovery systems, coldplates, and high-turndown radiators. Learn more about what we do on our website. Paragon seeks a battery R&D engineer (can be based in Tucson, Houston or Denver) who will develop battery technologies for both aerospace and terrestrial applications with a focus on nominal thermal control and thermal runaway mitigation. The R&D engineer leads generation and analysis of system requirements and development of architec

- **Id**: 3587255
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/paragon-space-development-corporation-research-development-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Lakewood, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-26T17:23:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T07:37:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 13
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5022
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Military, Science & Engineering, Space & Aerospace

## Company

- **Id**: 4390145
- **Name**: Paragon Space Development Corporation
- **Domain**: paragonsdc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/paragonsdc>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Paylocity

## Salary

- **Min**: 125000
- **Max**: 140000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 140000

## Technologies

- **Battery Management Systems** — Optional: no
- **Thermal Desktop** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 13

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-01T13:21:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.853
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 13
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 140000
- **Is top pay**: no

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