# Senior Mechanical Engineer: Mechanisms, Space

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer: Mechanisms, Space, you will create mechanisms for space payloads ranging from small cameras to large telescopes that survive the launch and space environments.

**Responsibilities**

- Design and develop mechanisms for space payloads, including optical focus, shutters, and filter wheels.

- Review literature and parallel applications to inform architecture and selection.

- Run hand calculations to size actuators and components.

- Select, procure, and rigorously test actuators and sensors.

- Own hardware design from concept to launch, pacing design maturity with a holistic program view.

- Use first principles for every decision and continuously simplify designs.

- Communicate pros and cons of system architectures with respect to mechanism design and performance.

- Lead subsystem design reviews and provide clear status updates on timelines and technical progress.

- Build prototypes, analyze failures, and transition successful designs to flight hardware and low-rate production.

- Create excellent technical documentation.

- Mentor junior engineers.

**Required Qualifications**

- BS or higher degree in engineering or hard science.

- Ability to obtain and hold U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

- 5+ years of mechanism design experience with space hardware and demonstrated track record of success fielding flight hardware.

- Mechatronics experience with component selection, interface with actuators and sensors, and control loop prototyping.

- Coding experience in Python, MATLAB, or C++ for analytical models and data acquisition.

- Experience with microcontrollers for prototyping.

- Experience with high-reliability design, athermalization, and vibration/shock resistance.

- Excellent attention to detail, highly motivated, self-starting, and autonomous.

- Organized with ability to define scope and requirements for ambiguous problems.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Hands-on technical project experience.

- Experience in related industries.

- Structural or thermal testing experience.

- CAD proficiency and ability to create engineering drawings.

- Hands-on fabrication and assembly skills.

- Strong fundamentals in optics, heat transfer, statics, solid mechanics, and materials.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: $146,000-$194,000 USD.

- Highly competitive equity grants.

- Top-tier benefits, including healthcare, income protection, generous time off, family planning and parenting support, mental health resources, professional development, commuter benefits, and relocation assistance.

- Retirement savings plan with employer match.

## Skills

### Required
- mechanism design
- space hardware
- mechatronics
- Python
- MATLAB
- C++
- microcontrollers
- high-reliability design
- athermalization
- vibration/shock resistance

### Nice to have
- hands-on technical project experience
- related industries
- structural or thermal testing
- CAD proficiency
- fabrication and assembly skills
- optics
- heat transfer
- statics
- solid mechanics
- materials

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