Cowboy Space
Mechanical Engineer | Deployable Radiators
$150K–$200K
Kent, Washington · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years.
- Education
- BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Owns the end-to-end structural, mechanism, and thermal integration design, testing, and qualification of deployable spacecraft radiators for on-orbit computing payloads.
What you'll do
- Design radiator panels and deployment mechanisms, and perform structural, kinematic, and thermal analyses.
- Build testbeds and develop deployment, structural, vibration, thermal-vacuum, and qualification test programs.
- Drive manufacturing, integration, anomaly resolution, and cross-functional delivery of flight hardware.
What they ask for
- BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years designing and analyzing lightweight structures and mechanical hardware in aerospace or other high-performance environments.
- Strong structural fundamentals and hands-on mechanism design experience; proficiency with FEA for static, modal, and dynamic analysis.
- Experience taking hardware from concept through build and test, proficiency with CAD, and experience in fast-paced hardware-focused development environments.
Nice to have
- Direct experience with deployable structures and their stowage, restraint, deployment, and latching mechanisms.
- Experience with space environments, spacecraft structures or thermal systems, fabrication, qualification, or deployment test rigs.
Pay
USD 150,000 – USD 200,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
FEA, CAD, NX, SolidWorks, MIL-SPEC, NASA-STD, ECSS
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