Mechatronics Engineer

Reflect Orbital • Hawthorne, CA

48d

About The Position

As a Mechatronics Engineer, you will be responsible for making the electromechanical deployment systems on our vehicle come to life in a fusion of electrical engineering, programming and mechanisms design. Your highest priority is delivering functioning hardware that strikes a balance between simplicity, scrappiness, analytical rigor and ingenuity.

Nice To Haves

• You've lead or participated in anomaly investigations for space mechanisms
• You’ve designed and programmed motor controllers before from scratch
• You have a deep understanding of how motors and motor control works
• You have enough mechanical design experience to do quick prototyping work
• You have strong experience collaboratively designing complex interdependent systems
• You’ve debugged novel actuation systems before in a scrappy environment with lots of iterative testing

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the actuation and control scheme for deploying our reflectors
• Take hardware and software from conceptual design through qualification to on-orbit operations
• Design, program, tune and debug motor control hardware
• Own the interfaces between and integration of actuators and controllers with the rest of the avionics system
• De-risk the performance of complex actuation systems with a significant amount of hands-on prototyping and testing

Benefits

• Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy
• Access to HSA, FSA, 401K, and commuter benefits
• Unlimited paid time off, two-weeks per year minimum mandatory use
• Healthy lunches provided daily

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees