Contracts Specialist  The team at Advanced Space is leading humanity back to the Moon and pioneering innovative solutions in the space industry. Based in Westminster, Colorado, our team is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and detail-oriented Contracts Specialist to support our growing portfolio of government and commercial space missions.  In this role, you will focus primarily on pre-award contracts support, including drafting and negotiating teaming agreements, NDAs, MOUs, and proposal-related subcontracts. You will help interpret solicitations (RFPs, BAAs, SBIRs, OTAs), translate regulatory requirements into actionable compliance and risk strategies, and ensure our proposals are both competitive and compliant.  This position is ideal for a contracts professional with 1–2 years of experience who is ready to take ownership of moderately complex contracting assignments, deepen their government contracting expertise, and contribute directly to mission success.  What You Can Expect  * The opportunity to contribute directly to cutting-edge space missions by enabling compliant, competitive contracts and proposals.  * Exposure to a wide range of government and commercial contract types, including RFPs, BAAs, SBIRs, OTAs, and complex teaming arrangements.  * Close collaboration with Business Development, Finance, technical leaders, and program managers across the company.  * A culture that values technical excellence, curiosity, customer focus, and a bias toward action—"when we see it, we solve it."  * Growth opportunities to deepen expertise in government contracting and develop toward more senior contracts roles.  Advanced Space is a rapidly growing, privately held business that incorporates our core values in all that we do. Advanced Space exists to support the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space and operates with four core values: We are customer obsessed and mission focused; when we see it, we solve it; we are one team, motivated by our vision; and we bring technical excellence and inexhaustible curiosity. This role will be based in Westminster, Colorado.  This position is open to U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents only, as required by applicable laws and regulations.  We do not provide visa sponsorship or support work authorization for this role. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future sponsorship.  Responsibilities  * Draft, review, and negotiate proposal-ready teaming agreements, MOUs, NDAs, and subcontracts that support aggressive capture timelines while protecting Advanced Space’s margin, IP, and overall risk posture.  * Analyze government solicitations and flow-down requirements (FAR/DFARS/NASA), develop and maintain compliance matrices and reps & certs, and provide compliance-driven bid/no-bid recommendations.  * Identify and quantify contractual, financial, schedule, and compliance risks; recommend risk-mitigation terms and escalate higher-risk pursuits with clear options and rationale.  * Track and manage the full lifecycle of pre-award vehicles and standard active agreements, including execution, modifications, renewals, and expirations, providing regular written status updates to contracts leadership.  * Support subcontractor and partner strategy by drafting teaming/subcontract agreements, onboarding new partners, coordinating required flow-downs, and integrating subcontractor pricing into proposal cost volumes.  * Develop draft cost/price volumes with Finance and technical teams, contribute to pricing reviews, and monitor financial performance against contract requirements, flagging variances and emerging issues.  * Serve as a primary contracts interface to BD, capture, and program teams; build and maintain relationships with customer contracting officers and partners; and clearly communicate contract requirements, risks, and status.  * Apply knowledge of government contract types, FAR/DFARS/NASA requirements, and IP/data rights to structure competitive, compliant proposals and agreements, ensuring proper protection and flow-down of IP and regulatory obligations.  * Improve contracts operations by identifying workflow bottlenecks, maintaining reusable templates and checklists, contributing to lessons learned, and leading or supporting small contract administration and compliance initiatives.  Requirements  * Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Contract Management, Legal Studies, or a related field; or equivalent professional work experience.  * 1–2 years of professional experience, preferably in contracts, subcontracts, legal, procurement, project/business operations, or a related discipline.  * Foundational familiarity with government contracting concepts and regulations (e.g., FAR, DFARS, and/or NASA clauses).  * Demonstrated ability to draft and review standard agreements such as NDAs, teaming agreements, and basic subcontracts.  * Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret solicitations and identify compliance requirements, risks, and flow-down obligations.  * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain contract issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.  * Proven ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously and deliver high-quality work in fast-paced proposal environments.  * High level of integrity, sound judgment, and commitment to ethical conduct.  Compensation and Benefits  * $67,000 - $92,000 based on role and experience  * Signing bonus   * Quarterly Performance bonuses   * Company provided health insurance and 401K plan upon eligibility     Eligibility Requirements  * This is an IMMEDIATE hiring need.    * Ability to work in the Westminster, CO office 5 days/week during core business hours.  * Applicants must be U.S. Citizen or lawful permanent resident  About the Company  Advanced Space exists to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space through software and services that leverage unique subject matter expertise. The company is actively supporting mission and cutting-edge capabilities spanning commercial, civil, and national security customers. Our core business is focused on three areas: (1) mission enabling services, (2) technology solutions and (3) mission solutions. Through its mission enabling services, Advanced Space provides mission and flight optimization, mission design, mission systems engineering. With its technology solutions Advanced Space provides its customers with trusted AI/ML/autonomy expertise, flight-demonstrated applications, and analysis at scale. Advanced Space offers Mission Solutions with unique turn-key missions, data and capabilities purchases and demonstrated cislunar and Martian success. Advanced Space is mission focused as the owner and operator of CAPSTONE™ for NASA and Prime contractor for Oracle for AFRL.  These competencies are leveraged by a dynamic, flexible, and agile team with cross domain knowledge. We have a small but growing team that works collaboratively across projects. We provide flexibility, and an opportunity for passionate employees to contribute directly to meaningful projects. Trusted to take on the challenge, the team at Advanced Space is Delivering Innovation to Orbit™ to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.