Senior Mechanical Engineer, CesiumAstro

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering from an accredited university or institution
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant mechanical engineering experience, including supporting spacecraft of other aerospace hardware
• Experience applying mechanical engineering fundamentals to areas such as structural design, electronics packaging, thermal considerations, shock, and vibration
• Experience with mechanical design and development, including 3D CAD, engineering drawings, and GD&T
• Experience supporting hardware through design, analysis, manufacturing, integration, and/or test
• Familiarity with spacecraft or launch environments and their impact on mechanical design
• Experience with advanced aerospace materials and manufacturing processes

Desirable

• We are looking to add a Senior Mechanical Engineer to our Internal Missions team
• If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about developing space hardware for leading-edge communications satellites, we would like to hear from you
• In this position, you will be responsible for mechanical aspects of Cesium spacecraft, subsystems, and interfaces through all phases of the development process
• The ideal candidate will be versatile and proficient in mechanical analysis, electronics packaging, computer-aided design (CAD), mechanical interfaces, thermal architecture, spacecraft propulsion, deployable and actuated structures, and environmental qualification of spacecraft
• As a Cesium spacecraft team member, you will work on a small team to develop satellites and put them in orbit
• You will be responsible for mechanical designs from concept through space flight including requirements definition, architecture trades and block diagrams, analysis, manufacturing, testing, qualification, and in-orbit support
• Your work will have a direct impact on the success of the company
• You will work closely with the engineering team, program management to ensure the successful build and launch of our satellite
• Element will be the largest, most powerful rideshare satellite in LEO
• We’re launching eight of them in the next four years, starting with our first launch this year
• Together, our small team will design, build, and iterate to reduce mass and cost while increasing performance, reliability, and manufacturability of a new generation of satellites