Senior Mechanical Engineer — Antenna Systems

Team: Engineering & Operations

Location: Saratoga, CA, Arlington, TX

Commitment: Full-Time

Workplace Type: onsite

Salary:

What you will do:

Own the mechanical design of a deployable payload antenna structure — from preliminary layout through detailed design, analysis, and release to manufacturing.
Lead structure and mechanisms design, including deployment kinematics, hold down and release mechanism make/buy decisions and rapid prototyping.
Perform structural and dynamic analysis to meet mass, stiffness, and packaging requirements.
Take the structure and mechanisms through qualification for the flight environment (thermal-vacuum, vibration, and shock).
Create detailed drawings, GD&T, and interface control documentation for cross-functional team consumption.
Support manufacturing, integration, and test, resolving mechanical anomalies throughout the entire product lifecycle.
Be a CAD modeling expert (SolidWorks) managing CAD assemblies and drawings.

Required qualifications:

BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
6 to 8 years of hands-on experience bringing your CAD from the desktop to your desk-top.
Experience with deployable space structures.

Preferred qualifications:

Solar panel structure design, integration & test.
Space or flight environmental qualification (thermal-vacuum, vibration, radiation).
Experience with automated manufacturing systems (robotics, pick and place, roll to roll etc.).
Demonstrable experience developing deployable space structures from the ground up.