Mechanical Engineer

The role

A Mechanical Engineer will own hardware from design through build and test. You will deliver spacecraft components, assemblies, and ground equipment.

What you will do

• Own assigned components and assemblies from requirements through design, procurement, build, verification, and production support.
• Design flight hardware and mechanical GSE.
• Create and release CAD, drawings, bills of materials, and interface definitions.
• Evaluate design options for strength, stiffness, packaging, manufacturability, assembly, cost, and schedule.
• Use first-principles calculations and structural FEA.
• Build and evaluate prototypes and develop fixtures and functional test setups.
• Support assembly, integration, and qualification of assigned hardware.
• Investigate manufacturing, integration, and test anomalies.
• Work directly with suppliers and technicians.
• Coordinate interfaces across mechanical, thermal, electrical, payload, and integration and test teams.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering field.
• 3+ years of professional mechanical hardware development experience.
• Experience carrying hardware through detailed design, fabrication, assembly, and physical testing.
• Solid mechanical fundamentals including load paths, joints and fasteners, materials, thermal and optical properties, machining, sheet metal fabrication, GD&T, and tolerance analysis.
• Proficiency in 3D CAD and engineering drawings using SolidWorks or a comparable platform.
• Ability to substantiate designs with engineering calculations and working knowledge of structural FEA.
• Hands-on experience using tools, assembling hardware, developing test setups, and troubleshooting discrepancies.
• Ability to manage defined projects independently, communicate technical issues, and collaborate across disciplines.

Nice to have

• Experience with spacecraft hardware, launch environments, or other high-reliability hardware.
• Experience with deployment or separation mechanisms, precision assemblies, electronics packaging, or spacecraft handling and lifting equipment.
• Experience supporting vibration, shock, or thermal vacuum (TVAC) testing.
• Experience transitioning designs into repeatable production, resolving supplier issues, or improving assembly and inspection processes.
• Experience owning a small subsystem, working in a cleanroom, or supporting qualification and acceptance testing of flight hardware.

Before you apply

• For U.S. Roles: applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual.
• For U.K. Roles: requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks and eligibility to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• For Canada Roles: must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

About the company

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth. With Pulsar, Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system.