As a Senior Mechanisms Engineer, you will own a critical vehicle mechanism subsystem from concept through flight. Depending on your background and team priorities, your assignment will be separation systems, landing gear, aero control surfaces, or electromechanical actuation. This is a hands-on role at the center of vehicle hardware development. You will work closely with propulsion, structures, avionics, GNC, and launch operations to design integrated systems, build hardware, and validate through tests. You'll be expected to move quickly, iterate often, and take full ownership of mechanisms that directly impact mission success.

Own your mechanism subsystem from concept through design, analysis, test, and flight.

Drive structural and kinematic design for minimum mass while meeting strength, stiffness, fatigue, and operational-life requirements across ascent, entry, landing, and reuse environments.

Balance performance, manufacturability, cost, and schedule in every design decision

Perform analysis — hand calculations, FEA, tolerance stack-ups — and validate predictions with test and flight data.

Define and execute qualification and acceptance test campaigns; author procedures, acceptance criteria, and anomaly dispositions.

Develop and maintain engineering drawings, models, and release documentation.

Work directly on the factory floor with manufacturing to iterate quickly and resolve build issues in real time.

Troubleshoot hardware anomalies, perform root cause analysis, and implement design improvements.

Support launch operations, post-flight inspection, and refurbishment planning.

Senior Mechanisms Engineer - Electromechanical Actuators

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Qualification

Required

Preferred

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Company

Cowboyspace

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