Business Development- Technical Bid Writer

Our engineering team is building some of the most technically sophisticated autonomous systems in the defense space ecosystem. Your job is to make sure that sophistication is translated into winning contracts.

This is a hands-on practitioner role where your writing is the work. You will collaborate closely with our technical team, learning what they have built and helping translate it into compliant, compelling, evaluator-ready proposals that resonate with government evaluators. We are a lean and supportive team that moves fast — you will have real ownership over your work and the autonomy to do it well, with the full backing of the commercial and engineering team behind you.

You will work across RFIs, RFPs, OTAs, CSOs, BAAs, SBIRs, etc. primarily targeting U.S. Space Force, AFRL, DIU, Space RCO, SDA, NASA, and Intelligence Community customers.

Own the writing of technical, management, and past performance volumes for prime and subcontractor submissions across DoD, DoW, NASA, IC, etc. solicitations.

Translate complex engineering concepts — orbital mechanics, autonomous systems architecture, machine vision, onboard edge computing, RPO, directed energy, etc. — into clear, compliant, evaluator-ready narrative without requiring engineers to draft or heavily redline your work.

Write executive summaries, capability descriptions, technical approaches, staffing narratives, and past performance write-ups that are both compliant and compelling.

Build and maintain a reusable proposal content library — boilerplate, capability sheets, past performance templates — that reduces per-submission workload over time.

Perform thorough RFP decomposition — Section L, Section M, SOW, CDRLs, and all attachments — and produce compliance matrices and annotated outlines before writing begins.

Track and enforce compliance across all volumes, ensuring every requirement is addressed, cross-referenced, and verifiable at submission.

Apply working knowledge of FAR and DFARS to ensure submissions meet regulatory requirements without over-engineering the response.

Flag solicitation ambiguities, conflicts, or requirement gaps early and raise them before they become submission-day problems.

Work directly with Lodestar's technical team to extract input efficiently — structured interviews, architecture reviews, and targeted written Q&A rather than open-ended drafting requests.

Coordinate inputs from Business Development, Finance, Legal, and Mission Operations to assemble complete, cohesive submissions on deadline.

Support team reviews and incorporate feedback quickly without losing compliance or narrative coherence.

Own proposal schedules, draft cycles, and submission logistics across multiple concurrent opportunities.

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options , and access to medical, vision and dental coverage , as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan .

Lodestar is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Lodestar is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.