Mechanisms Engineer - Impulse Space
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
About the Job
Description
As a Mechanisms Engineer at Impulse, you will be responsible for the design, development, and testing of flight-critical mechanisms, actuators, and deployable structures for Impulse’s next-generation transfer and hosting vehicles.
Responsibilities
- Conceptual, detailed design, and ownership of flight mechanisms
- Perform analyses to support design including hand calculations, finite element analysis, and kinematic analysis
- Test mechanisms and structures on both component and system levels to validate design intent and characterize performance
- Source commercial components to support design as required
- Update designs and documentation to support continuous improvement
- Work with internal manufacturing group and external suppliers to produce designs
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or science
- 3+ years of experience in mechanical design
- Experience with kinematic mechanical systems
- Demonstrated ability in conceptual design, fabrication and testing of hardware
- Demonstrated ability to apply dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
- Proficiency in CAD software with ability to learn new tools
- In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who is uniquely creative, self-driven, and is able to lead his or her own projects to completion
- Demonstrated experience working collaboratively across different teams
- Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 5+ years' of demonstrated experience in space mechanism development (solar array, booms, SADAs, deployables, separation systems, etc)
- 5+ years' of demonstrated Prior experience with testing mechanisms for development, flight qualification, and flight verification
- Prior experience in high performance, cost and mass optimized hardware design
- Experience in a space startup or agile development environment
- Experience with Siemens NX
- Experience with creation of deployable structures models in NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or ANSYS
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Source : Impulse Space
