Mechanical Design Engineer III

Overview

This role is responsible for mechanical engineering design and analysis of complex spacecraft and payloads, spanning from the lowest‑level components, all the way to the space vehicle level. As a mechanical engineer on our team, you will drive design excellence into wide range of OSS products and programs, through all phases of design until you witness your designs on orbit.

Key Responsibilities

• Own design and development of custom mechanical and electromechanical parts and assemblies.
• Create detailed designs to implement part concepts and generate CAD models in SolidWorks for components, assemblies, and space vehicles.
• Apply first-order hand calculations and empirical formulas to assess and iterate on your designs rapidly.
• Validate your designs by building development articles to test and rapidly iterate on the design.
• Develop design criteria, collaborate on requirements, and drive system-level optimization.
• Generate detailed production drawings using geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), and perform a tolerance stack up analysis.
• Drive holistic design for manufacturing methods (DFM) to create elegant designs with a focus on piece part and process count reductions, error proofing at every step of fabrication and integration, and consistent performance and production metrics.
• Collaborate effectively with avionics, structural, thermal, systems engineering, program management, and AI&T teams with strong internal customer focus.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant engineering or computation field plus 5-7 years,
  MS plus 3-5 years, or PhD plus 0-2 years of professional experience in mechanical engineering positions.
• Expertise with mechanical design of wide variety of products: design modeling, mechanical design and analysis, GD&T, 2D drawing creation and drafting.
• Experience working as a part of a cross-functional integrated product team (IPT) to include programmatic leaders.
• Experience working in space or aerospace industry, or a related high-reliability field.
• Experience utilizing SolidWorks with PDM, or a related mechanical engineering tool (NX, Catia, ProE).
• Experience performing prototype builds, design verification and validation testing, and integration into next level assemblies.

Preferred

• Experience developing hardware for high reliability space missions: spacecraft, electro-optical payload, radio-frequency payload.
• Experience with electromechanical systems such as motors or actuators.
• Ability to help in other areas with experience in thermal design and analysis (Ansys Thermal Desktop) or structural design and analysis (Siemens FEMAP).
• Experience in all phases of product development, from requirements, through prototype, through design verification and validation and assembly integration and test (AI&T).

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