Staff Mechanical Engineer - Complex Mission Mechanical Lead

📋 Description

• Own mechanical architecture for spacecraft classes and missions
• Define mechanical design envelope, interfaces, and config control
• Lead spacecraft evolution to improve performance and manufacturability
• Create roadmaps with 1+ year horizons for platform improvements
• Ensure scalability from prototype to constellation quantities
• Collaborate with customers to translate requirements into solutions

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years designing, building, and testing flight hardware
• Demonstrated flight heritage on space hardware
• Experience owning or guiding a spacecraft platform across missions
• Strong first-principles problem solving from fundamentals
• Customer-facing: requirements discussions and proposals
• Mentorship history developing junior and mid-level engineers

🎁 Benefits

• Salary: $201,000 - $223,000 USD
• Equity grant and comprehensive benefits
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k retirement plan
• Paid time off: vacation, holidays, sick leave, parental leave