Senior Mechanical Engineer

Join Muon, an early-stage aerospace company, as a Senior Mechanical Engineer. In this role, you will own the mechanical direction of a spacecraft subsystem or mission, from requirements definition to installation on the launch vehicle. You will design hardware to meet mission needs, collaborate with various stakeholders, and drive the integration and testing of your hardware. You will also mentor earlier-career engineers and influence design standards and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Assumer la responsabilité technique de conceptions complexes, établir l'approche de conception et d'analyse, et les mener à travers l'analyse, la construction, l'intégration et les tests.
• Diriger les revues de conception et servir de réviseur/approbateur pour les conceptions et analyses d'autres ingénieurs.
• Mentorer les ingénieurs, élever le niveau technique de l'équipe et influencer les normes de conception et les meilleures pratiques.
• The ideal candidate can go deep on design while carrying a "systems mindset" — a force multiplier who collaborates across disciplines to arrive at an elegant, well-balanced design
• Extensive documentation capabilities: build procedures, test plans, design trades, DOEs
• 8+ years of experience designing, building, and testing high-reliability hardware

Requirements

• Proficiency in CAD (SolidWorks preferred) for medium-to-large assembly design and management
• Demonstrated proficiency leading mechanical design for complex electromechanical systems

Experience with ECO/DCO processes and PLM systems

• Experience managing external vendors for part prototyping and development
• B.S. or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field
• Mastery of drawings, GD&T, BOMs, FAIs, tolerance budgets, and mass budgets
• Excellent communication, presentation, and cross-functional coordination skills
• Deep design experience in one or more of: spacecraft structures and mission integration; deployables and solar arrays; or precision mechanisms
• Experience owning a subsystem across its full lifecycle, including flight heritage or on-orbit hardware
• Fluency with first-order structural/thermal analysis and hand-offs to dedicated analysis teams
• Experience leading design reviews and defining design standards or processes
• Familiarity with solar array or electrical/power-system design (not required at this level)
• Hands-on background in integration, test, and anomaly resolution of flight hardware

Preferred

• Experience mentoring or technically leading a small team of engineers

Pay

USD 173,000 - 193,000