Reflect Orbital
Mechanical Engineer
$90K–$200K
Hawthorne, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Feb 7, 2025
- Experience
- Roughly 4–6 years of mechanical design experience; flight hardware or similar high-reliability systems are described as ideal.
About the job
Design, prototype, qualify, and flight-validate spacecraft components and integrate mechanical systems, ensuring hardware is reliable in the space environment.
What you'll do
- Deliver flight-ready critical spacecraft components.
- Take hardware and mechanisms from conceptual design through qualification to on-orbit operations.
- Correlate component analysis to ensure reliability in the space environment.
What they ask for
- Extensive CAD experience.
- Experience owning spacecraft components from clean-sheet design to spaceflight.
- Ability to design bolted joints and account for machine-shop tolerances.
- Strong experience collaboratively designing complex, interdependent systems.
Nice to have
- Mechanical design experience on flight hardware or similar high-reliability mechanical systems.
Pay
$90K – $200K (base salary)
Tools
CAD
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