Sr. Structures Design Engineer

Orchard•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

@Orchard is partnering with an aerospace company seeking a Sr. Structures Design Engineer to join its established team in Mountain View, California. The role focuses on designing and developing spacecraft structures and secondary supports. The engineer will serve as the senior engineer on a small design team, maintain the engineering schedule, generate drawings, support spacecraft structure builds, and contribute to special projects involving structural products.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline (Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace) or a related field.
At least 5 years of experience, including piece-part and subassembly modeling in Creo or other CAD software and assembly drawing generation.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of manufacturing processes, additive design, mechanical assembly, electromechanical integration, or related areas for flight equipment.
Experience with Creo and MATLAB/Simulink.
Ability to serve as a subsystem owner and/or lead a multidisciplinary team to fulfill programmatic requirements.
Ability to evaluate processes for non-value-added steps and continuous improvement opportunities.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Group project experience and ability to collaborate with team members across technical disciplines.
Strong project management skills.
Detailed understanding of top-level assembly models, product structure, and bill of materials (BOM) definition.
Understanding of design practices for release, redline, and engineering change notice processes.
Comfort working on interdisciplinary teams, internally and externally.
Comfort leading and conducting meetings with customers, vendors, and different levels of management.

Responsibilities

Create product specifications and negotiate design details, interfaces, test plans and procedures, and manufacturing and test processes based on program requirements.
Assist with oversight of the integration of subcontracted hardware into spacecraft systems architecture.
Generate engineering drawings and models using Creo and other design tools.
Help disposition nonconformances and drive process improvements.
Maintain the engineering schedule and support spacecraft structure builds and special projects involving structural products.