Mechanical Engineer
This is a challenging and exciting role that requires the design and build of flight hardware. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and building propellant tanks, integration interfaces, primary structures, and structural subassemblies.
* Responsibilities:
* Develop design concepts from scratch and size vehicle structures based on flight loads.
* Collaborate with peers to develop designs that balance mass, cost, and capability.
* Create detailed designs to implement structural concepts and generate CAD models in NX for components, assemblies, and vehicle integration.
* Build finite element models to assess designs and analyze structures to prove they meet the needs of the vehicle.
* Apply first-order hand calculations and empirical formulas to assess and iterate on designs rapidly.
* Validate designs by building development articles to test individual joints and design elements for strength.
* Perform structural testing on subassemblies and full sections of the airframe.
* Partner with build engineers and technicians to improve designs.
* Support the assembly of hardware in the factory, witness designs being brought to life daily, and watch them take flight and make history.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
* Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering.
* 1+ years of engineering experience designing, analyzing, or building structures (internship and school projects experience qualify).
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
* Strong ability to use data and analysis to make fast data-driven decisions.
* Ability to perform trade studies and make clear recommendations using first principles and engineering fundamentals even with partial information.
* Experience working at a nimble engineering organization or in a highly technical position that required a scrappy, entrepreneurial manner to accomplish tasks with tight time or budget constraints.
* Experience building hardware or have a passion for contributing to a work product that operates in the real world.
* Demonstrated rapid growth. You've held successive positions of increasing responsibility within an organization, were able to get yourself up to speed at a heroic pace, and accomplished something meaningfully difficult early in your career.
* You've demonstrated resilience and the ability to overcome failure or extreme odds.
* Experience leading or working on an engineering competition team, i.e. Formula SAE, Baja SAE, RoboSub, Combat Robotics or similar.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
* Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.
The selected candidate will join a dynamic team of engineers who are passionate about making human life multi-planetary. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking project that will shape the future of space exploration.