Senior Mechanical Engineer

Muon Space•San Jose, CA

55d•Onsite

About The Position

Muon seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate can go deep on design and analysis but also has a "systems mindset" and will be a force multiplier collaborating with other disciplines to arrive at an elegant, well-balanced design. Being an early-stage startup with a small team, breadth is extremely important and we expect this person to dive into structural data, dynamics, thermal design, supplier management and everything else associated with the full lifecycle of an electromechanical product. Due to the hands-on nature of this role, on-site work at our San Jose, CA location is required.

Requirements

6+ years experience designing/building/testing flight hardware in the Space industry, or similar in Aero, Self Driving, etc.
A desire to change the way the world understands and reacts to climate and environmental data
B.S. or higher degree in Mechanical Engineering
Some experience as an individual contributor structural/mechanical engineer
Design of components and assemblies in CAD
Understanding of drawings, GTOLs, and BOMs
Excellent communication, presentation, coordination skills & curiosity
Dedication to drawing conclusions on the most important factors and data
Excited to work in a fast-paced environment with new opportunities each week

Nice To Haves

Experience with solar arrays, SADAs, composite materials
Experience designing and executing structural tests for spacecraft
Large assembly management in Solidworks PDM, Duro PLM
Google workspace; Sheets, Slides, Docs. Slack
Mechanical management of a product or system
Experience running structural analyses for spacecraft (FEMAP, ANSYS)
Experience managing external vendors for part prototyping and development
Optomechanical instrument design
Software skills in one or more of Python, Matlab, C, C++
Experience working on thermal management systems for spacecraft
Shipped hardware designed for spacecraft, aircraft, automotive or similar environments

Responsibilities

Create, review, and refine spacecraft mechanical design with product structure in a modern CAD package (Solidworks)
Ownership of delivery of mechanical vehicles and subsystems, acting on multidisciplinary designs between launch provider, analysts, avionics, program, thermal, optical, and RF engineers
Find solutions and manage development of clean-sheet mechanical / structures architectures through detailed design consistent with the risk posture, development velocity and deployment schedules at Muon
Make economically sound choices for the company balancing the need to quickly demonstrate capability while understanding the path to scaled-up constellations (e.g Make vs Buy).
Create quick concepts that can be used to discuss and spur inspiration on the team in early phases of programs.
Perform basic stress and dynamic analyses (hand calcs, simple FEM) to support and inform structures designs including joint design, basic stiffness analyses, etc.
Contribute to maturing Muon's mechanical engineering standards and culture
Design basic test fixtures to support development and environmental testing
Influence flight designs to ensure hardware is easy to both build and test