Data + Software Lead, Lykos

About the role

You will architect and own the end-to-end secure digital infrastructure that transforms how Lykos handles repair and sustainment for defense and aerospace. This role requires you to personally code the foundational systems that track digital passports, manage dBOMs, and enforce immutable qualification evidence from intake to release. You will operate at the intersection of advanced manufacturing workflows and rigorous data engineering, ensuring every repair record is attributable, auditable, and verifiable. You must deeply understand how physical parts move through a regulated repair cell and translate that understanding into resilient software. This position demands a hands-on senior builder who writes, reviews, and deploys every critical line of code personally before delegation. You will be responsible for translating complex quality assurance processes into deterministic software logic that defense customers trust. The role requires a rare blend of manufacturing domain intuition and full-stack technical execution to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant systems.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Build and own Lykos' secure digital stack for dBOMs, digital passports, process-BOMs, qualification evidence, repair records, inspection data, and release workflows.
• Translate Lykos' operating model into software: one named part family, one defined damage mode, one repair/protection process, one acceptance matrix, one digital qualification package, and one measured return-to-service delta.
• Develop the first production-grade system directly, including database architecture, backend APIs, operator interfaces, authentication, permissions, evidence storage, audit logs, deployment, and documentation.
• Build the CUI-ready data layer required to make process-BOM and qualification data structured, searchable, traceable, and audit-ready for defense customers.
• Create digital workflows for intake, triage, repair/protection, selective reproduction, inspection, qualification, release, quarantine, revocation, and requalification.
• Build the evidence backend for NDT records, inspection results, photos, machine logs, material lots, calibration records, certificates, work instructions, acceptance criteria, and return-to-service documentation.
• Support Lykos' M0 / H0+H1 prototype cell by capturing the data required to prove repair quality, process repeatability, qualification readiness, and readiness improvement.
• Integrate Lykos' digital layer with internal and partner systems, including QMS, MES, PLM, NDT labs, coatings facilities, heat-treat providers, MRO partners, depot workflows, and customer data environments.
• Create dashboards for lead-time reduction, repair-versus-replace economics, yield, rework, acceptance status, qualified part-family growth, readiness impact, and recurring work packages.
• Establish data controls aligned with CUI, ITAR/EAR, AS9100/Nadcap-adjacent quality environments, customer proprietary information, and future GovCloud or classified-enclave requirements.
• Partner with manufacturing, process engineering, quality, business development, and government stakeholders to ensure the digital system matches how parts are actually repaired, inspected, approved, and returned to service.
• Build the foundation for AI-ready sustainment datasets by ensuring records are attributable, classifiable, versioned, permissioned, and tied to real process evidence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building production software or data systems, preferably in industrial, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, logistics, MRO, supply chain, or regulated environments.
• Proven ability to build full-stack systems independently, including database design, backend services, APIs, user interfaces, authentication, infrastructure, testing, and deployment.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, physical-asset traceability, configuration management, evidence records, audit trails, event logs, and release-state workflows.
• Experience with manufacturing, sustainment, or quality systems such as QMS, MES, PLM, ERP, LIMS, SCADA, historians, maintenance systems, or digital work instruction platforms.
• Ability to design data models for part families, serialized components, material lots, process windows, machines, work orders, inspection events, nonconformances, release decisions, and readiness metrics.
• Strong security and compliance mindset, including role-based access, attribute-based access, encryption, audit logging, identity management, controlled data environments, and secure partner access.
• Familiarity with defense or aerospace compliance expectations such as CUI, CMMC/NIST 800-171, ITAR/EAR, AS9100, Nadcap, DFARS, or equivalent regulated environments.
• Comfort working directly with operators, inspectors, engineers, quality teams, and government stakeholders to ensure software behavior aligns with real-world processes.

Nice to have

• Experience with CUI data handling, ITAR-controlled environments, and classified or regulated data systems.
• Knowledge of AS9100, Nadcap, and other aerospace and defense quality and accreditation frameworks.
• Background in MRO, depot repair, or sustainment workflows within defense or aerospace contexts.
• Familiarity with digital thread concepts, model-based systems engineering, and model-based definition practices.
• Experience integrating with QMS, MES, PLM, LIMS, or other enterprise data systems common in regulated manufacturing.
• Understanding of NDT methods, calibration traceability, and material traceability for aerospace components.
• Experience building evidence capture and audit trail systems that support regulatory inspection and customer audits.

Practical notes

• This role is based in Atlanta and requires full-time on-site presence.
• Travel may be required to visit partner facilities, prototype cells, or customer environments as needed.
• Candidates must be eligible to obtain necessary security clearances or work within U.S. government compliance frameworks.
• Immediate availability is preferred due to active prototype and qualification activities.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship for this position.