Mechanisms Engineer

Mechanisms Engineer

Department: Vehicle Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Redondo Beach

Reporting To: Seth Kovnat, Director of Vehicle Engineering

Compensation: $105,000 - $165,000 / year

Description

As a Mechanisms Engineer , you will be responsible for the design, development, and testing of flight-critical mechanisms, actuators, and deployable structures for Impulse’s next-generation transfer and hosting vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Conceptual, detailed design, and ownership of flight mechanisms
• Perform analyses to support design including hand calculations, finite element analysis, and kinematic analysis
• Test mechanisms and structures on both component and system levels to validate design intent and characterize performance
• Source commercial components to support design as required
• Update designs and documentation to support continuous improvement
• Work with internal manufacturing group and external suppliers to produce designs

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or science
• 3+ years of experience in mechanical design
• Experience with kinematic mechanical systems
• Demonstrated ability in conceptual design, fabrication and testing of hardware
• Demonstrated ability to apply dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
• Proficiency in CAD software with ability to learn new tools
• In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who is uniquely creative, self-driven, and able to lead your own projects to completion
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively across different teams
• Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale and/or resolve concerns

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 5+ years' of demonstrated experience in space mechanism development (solar array, booms, SADAs, deployables, separation systems, etc)
• 5+ years' of demonstrated prior experience with testing mechanisms for development, flight qualification, and flight verification
• Prior experience in high performance, cost and mass optimized hardware design
• Experience in a space startup or agile development environment
• Experience with Siemens NX
• Experience with creation of deployable structures models in NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or ANSYS