Mechanical Engineer

About the Role

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for quickly designing, prototyping, and flight validating spacecraft subcomponents and integrating mechanical systems on tight deadlines. Your highest priority is delivering functional hardware that strikes a balance between simplicity, scrappiness, analytical rigor and ingenuity.

Responsibilities

• Deliver flight-ready critical spacecraft components
• Take hardware and mechanisms from conceptual design through qualification to on-orbit operations
• Correlate analysis of your components to ensure reliability in the space environment

Ideal Qualifications

• You have owned spacecraft components from clean-sheet to spaceflight
• Extensive CAD experience
• You can teach a class on the design of bolted joints
• You know what tolerances the machine shop can hit without needing to ask them
• You have strong experience collaboratively designing complex interdependent systems

Even if you don't meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you. Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.

We are also interested in carving out unique roles for unconventional people that we are excited about working with.