Senior Mechanical Engineer, Life Support Systems

Long Beach, CAfull timeOn Site

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$112k–$159k

H1B: no

Vast Senior Mechanical Engineer for Life Support Systems at Vast responsible for designing and developing environmental and thermal control systems for artificial-gravity space stations. Leads design reviews and manages project delivery from design through launch and orbit insertion.

Responsibilities

Own the design and development of the environmental and thermal control systems for our artificial-gravity space station, from initial design trades to fully functional and validated system.
Iterate on manufacturing processes and development testing in a fast-paced environment.
Own the project delivery timeline from early design through production, launch, and orbit insertion.
Perform systems engineering tasks and fluid analyses.
Lead design reviews internally and externally with suppliers and customers.
Work with interdisciplinary stakeholders to ensure the component will integrate with the necessary avionics, software, and mission operations systems.
Make sure that all designs are manufacturable and reliable.
Bring technical excellence to everything you do.

Qualification

Experience with rotating machineryExperience with soft goodsExperienced in NX

Required

Bachelor's degree in an engineering or science discipline.
2+ years of experience working with fluid or environmental control systems or components.
3+ years of hands-on hardware experience performing fabrication, assembly and/or testing.

Preferred

Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
Proactive problem-solving skills such as failure analysis, root cause investigation, and design of experiment creation.
Ability to perform trade studies using first principles and engineering fundamentals to make clear recommendations even with partial information.
Experience with rotating machinery.
Experience with soft goods.
Experienced in NX.
Solid understanding and application of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and tolerance stack-up analysis.
Experience with structural analysis methods (hand calcs, FEMAP, ANSYS) in order to optimize hardware to strength requirements as well as to evaluate for life and fracture.

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
PTO
Equity/RSU
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

Company

Vast

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