Staff Mechanical Engineer, Space

The role

You will own hardware design from concept to launch using CAD, hand calculations, and prototypes. You will act as the Responsible Engineer for subsystems, performing analysis, visiting vendors, and executing hardware test plans.

What you will do

• Own hardware design from concept generation to launch
• Use first principles for decisions and simplify designs
• Communicate pros and cons of system architecture
• Lead subsystem design reviews
• Act as the Responsible Engineer for your subsystem
• Run analysis, visit vendors, and execute hardware test plans
• Build prototypes and analyze failures
• Transition prototype designs to flight hardware and low rate production
• Travel to test sites and vendors as needed
• Create technical documentation including slide packages, test plans, and drawings

Required qualifications

• BS or higher degree in engineering or a hard science
• Experience in an immersive hands-on technical project
• CAD skills and ability to make high quality engineering drawings
• Demonstrated hands-on fabrication and assembly skills
• Experience working with hand tools, mill, lathe, etc.
• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals: heat transfer, statics, solid mechanics, materials
• Excellent attention to detail
• Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties autonomously without supervision
• Very organized and willing to establish scope and requirements for ill-defined problems
• Passion for defending the United States and her allies
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance

Nice to have

• 10+ years of mechanical design experience in a professional setting with space hardware or industry of equivalent complexity
• Experience in NX/Teamcenter
• Experience in an immersive hands-on technical project in college or in free time
• Ability to integrate electronic components (PCBAs, motors, sensors etc.) into mechanical designs
• Experience working with (integrating in designs) optical or RF systems
• Experience developing code in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, MATLAB, C++)
• Structural or thermal testing experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance
• Consent to pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The Space team develops integrated hardware and software systems to enhance Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control.