Inventory Specialist

Current Job Openings >> Inventory Specialist Inventory Specialist Summary Title: Inventory Specialist ID: ENG-26-02A Team: Space & Ground Systems Location: Herndon, VA More about this job > Description

HawkEye 360 is seeking a highly organized, proactive Inventory Specialist to oversee our engineering lab environment and satellite hardware inventory. As we scale our constellation of small satellites, maintaining a world-class, high-efficiency lab space is essential to our mission success.

In this role, you will ensure our engineering teams have the tools, components, and well-managed environment needed to design and build cutting-edge RF technology. You will own our inventory management processes, coordinate with critical vendors, maintain calibration schedules, and ensure the lab is safe, efficient, and mission-ready.

As the Inventory Specialist, your main responsibilities will be:

• Maintain and continuously update our internal inventory tool (Epsilon) to track flight hardware, serial numbers, electronic components, and consumables.
• Perform receiving inspections to verify incoming hardware against shipping documentation and CoCs, ensuring accurate updates to inventory system
• Organize, label, and store HawkEye 360 hardware across engineering lab spaces to support multiple satellite build programs.
• Dispatch hardware to engineers and technicians, ensuring accurate real-time updates to inventory trackers.
• Manage procurement for lab supplies, including submitting and tracking purchase orders, and coordinate closely with vendors for timely delivery.
• Ensure the lab is consistently stocked with essential engineering materials (connectors, cables, fasteners, tools, soldering supplies, etc.).
• Maintain a clean, professional, and highly organized lab environment aligned with best practices for engineering and test operations.
• Own the schedule and execution of equipment calibrations to ensure measurement tools meet quality and audit standards.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Engineering and Facilities for lab upgrades, hazmat handling, power requirements, and safety/compliance activities.

Your skills and qualifications:

Essential education and experience:

• 3+ years of experience in lab management, inventory control, supply chain, or a similar operational role in a high-tech engineering environment.
• Strong experience working with vendors, managing purchase orders, and coordinating procurement activities.
• Experience operating in an engineering lab; strong ESD awareness and adherence to safety best practices.
• Clear, proactive communication skills with both engineering and operations stakeholders.
• Proficiency with inventory management tools; experience with Epsilon is a plus.
• Familiarity with workflow management tools such as Jira or Confluence.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to create and enforce organizational systems.

Base Salary Range: $60,000 - $90,000 annually

HawkEye 360 offers a compensation package that includes a competitive base salary plus annual performance bonus and benefits. We consider many factors when determining salary offers, such as candidate's work experience, education, training & skills, as well as market and business considerations. We are also open to considering candidates with experience and qualifications at a different level than required in a job posting, which may affect the compensation package offered.

Company Overview:

HawkEye 360 is equipping defense, intelligence, and national security leaders with mission-critical signals intelligence to enable faster, better decision making. By detecting, geolocating, and characterizing radio frequency emissions worldwide, HawkEye 360 delivers trusted domain awareness and early warning indicators to the US Government and allied partners. Our space-based collection, proprietary signal processing, and AI-powered analytics transform knowledge of RF spectrum into a strategic advantage. Proven by operational mission success, HawkEye 360 is redefining how signals intelligence strengthens national and global security.

HawkEye 360 is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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