Mechanical Engineer

The role

You will design, prototype, and flight validate spacecraft subcomponents. You will also integrate mechanical systems on tight deadlines.

What you will do

• 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

Required qualifications

• 4–6 years of mechanical design experience
• Extensive CAD experience
• Can teach a class on the design of bolted joints
• Know what tolerances the machine shop can hit without needing to ask them
• Strong experience collaboratively designing complex interdependent systems

Nice to have

• Experience on flight hardware or similar high-reliability mechanical systems
• Owned spacecraft components from clean-sheet to spaceflight

Benefits

• Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy
• Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K
• Unlimited paid time off
• Healthy lunches provided daily

About the company

Reflect Orbital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company's success hinges on its team.