Staff Mechanical Engineer, Muon Space

• The ideal candidate can go deep on design and analysis but also has a “systems mindset” and will be a force multiplier collaborating with other disciplines to arrive at an elegant, well-balanced design
• 10+ years experience designing/building/testing flight hardware in the Space industry, or similar in Aero, Self Driving, etc
• Ability to provide end-to-end technical leadership over entire missions
• Interest in people management of small engineering teams
• A desire to change the way the world understands and reacts to climate and environmental data
• B.S. or higher degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Some experience as an individual contributor structural/mechanical engineer
• Design of components and assemblies in CAD
• Understanding of drawings, GTOLs, and BOMs
• Excellent communication, presentation, coordination skills & curiosity
• Dedication to drawing conclusions on the most important factors and data
• Excited to work in a fast-paced environment with new opportunities each week

Desirable

• Muon seeks a Staff Mechanical Engineer to join our team
• Being an early-stage startup with a small team, breadth is extremely important and we expect this person to dive into structural data, dynamics, thermal design, supplier management and everything else associated with the full lifecycle of an electromechanical product
• Create, review, and refine spacecraft mechanical design with product structure in a modern CAD package (Solidworks)
• Ownership of delivery of mechanical vehicles and subsystems, acting on multidisciplinary designs between launch provider, analysts, avionics, program, thermal, optical, and RF engineers
• Find solutions and manage development of clean-sheet mechanical / structures architectures through detailed design consistent with the risk posture, development velocity and deployment schedules at Muon
• Make economically sound choices for the company balancing the need to quickly demonstrate capability while understanding the path to scaled-up constellations (e.g Make vs Buy)
• Create quick concepts that can be used to discuss and spur inspiration on the team in early phases of programs
• Perform basic stress and dynamic analyses (hand calcs, simple FEM) to support and inform structures designs including joint design, basic stiffness analyses, etc
• Contribute to maturing Muon’s mechanical engineering standards and culture
• Design basic test fixtures to support development and environmental testing
• Influence flight designs to ensure hardware is easy to both build and test