Senior Mechanical Engineer: Mechanisms, Space

The role

You will create mechanisms for space payloads ranging from small cameras to large telescopes. You will own hardware design from concept to launch and mentor junior engineers.

What you will do

• Create mechanisms for space payloads
• Review literature and parallel applications to inform architecture and selection
• Run hand calculations to size actuators and components
• Select, procure, and rigorously test actuators and sensors
• Own hardware design from concept to launch
• Communicate pros/cons of system architectures
• Lead subsystem design reviews and provide status updates
• Build prototypes, analyze failures, and transition designs to flight hardware and production
• Create technical documentation
• Mentor junior engineers

Required qualifications

• BS or higher degree in engineering or hard science
• Ability to obtain and hold U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• 5+ years of mechanism design experience with space hardware
• Mechatronics experience
• Coding experience in Python, MATLAB, or C++
• Experience using microcontrollers for prototyping such as Arduino, RasPi, STM, or other
• Experience with high-reliability design, athermalization, and vibration/shock resistance
• Experience with mechanical alignments, kinematic mounting, and qualification test campaigns
• Excellent attention to detail, highly motivated, self-starting, and autonomous
• Organized with ability to define scope and requirements for ambiguous problems

Nice to have

• Hands-on technical project experience (academic, extracurricular, or personal)
• Experience in related industries
• Structural or thermal testing experience
• CAD proficiency and ability to create engineering drawings meeting industry standards
• Hands-on fabrication and assembly skills with hand tools, mill, lathe, etc.
• Strong fundamentals in optics, heat transfer, statics, solid mechanics, and materials

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Ability to obtain and hold U.S. Top Secret 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. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.