Mechanical Engineer, Space Lasers Manufacturing (Starlink)
About The Position
Engineers on this team must have a working knowledge of design, manufacturing, testing, and flight. A successful mechanical engineer demonstrates engineering intuition and critical thinking and is comfortable working under ambiguous requirements with minimal oversight. Combining these skills, these engineers face challenges across a wide variety of products and subassemblies, and the team is frequently asked to tackle new, inter-departmental development projects. The ultimate goal of the team is to deliver the optical assemblies required for our satellites to achieve their mission.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or other engineering discipline
- 1+ years of professional mechanical design or hands-on manufacturing experience (internships/co-ops and club projects can apply)
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in mechanical engineering or other engineering discipline
- Experience with integration and testing of optical, mechanical, propulsion, thermal, electrical, and/or structural systems
- Documentation and configuration management experience
- Experience writing test plans and procedures and providing go/no-go judgment and rationale
- Experience in a production environment
- Demonstrated engineering intuition, critical thinking, and comfort with ambiguity
Responsibilities
- Manage integration build flow and test operations
- Evaluate proposed designs for manufacturability and integration
- Interface with both engineers and technicians to optimize manufacturing and automation
- Develop and refine manufacturing assembly procedures based on lessons learned
- Enable day-to-day execution of product integration and test flow
- Evaluate non-conformances to determine root cause and create actionable items and system improvements
- Work with upstream and downstream partner teams to drive improvements at the system level
Benefits
- Company stock
- Stock options
- Long-term cash awards
- Discretionary bonuses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Various other discounts and perks
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Paid sick time (in compliance with state and federal law for Washington State employees)
- Company shuttles from select Seattle locations to the Redmond office
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
