# Mechanical Engineer- Spaceflight Structures/ Mechanisms

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $110,000-$160,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96372482

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## Description

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe – large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military.

As an Astranis Mechanical Engineer, you will design, evaluate, test and build spacecraft parts, processes and mechanical systems. You must have a strong problem-solving background as well as hands-on skills and an enthusiasm for novel design. Experience with spacecraft, mechanisms and/or composites are benefits but not required.

**Role**

- Design, evaluate, procure, assemble, and test primary structure, bracketry, and/or mechanisms for Astranis spacecraft. Components include composite and metallic parts and assemblies with a variety of manufacturing techniques.

- Develop requirements for components and systems including loads, interfaces, and functional requirements.

- Integrate parts and systems into the spacecraft by working together with the rest of the team, and document and develop procedures to improve the build process in the future.

- Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent

- 2-4 years of mechanical design or equivalent experience

- Experience with CAD (SolidWorks preferred) and GD&T

- Demonstrated fundamentals with mechanical analytic abilities; FEA experience is not required, but preferred

- A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development

**Bonus**

- Experience with spaceflight structures and/or mechanisms

- Experience with mechanical FEA

- Experience with composite structures

- Experience in designing in a vacuum environment with large temperature swings

- Experience with vibration environments

**What we offer:** All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits.

Base pay is just one component of Astranis's total rewards package. Your compensation also includes a significant equity package via incentive stock options, high-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.

The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.

**Base Salary:** $110,000-$160,000 USD

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## Skills

### Required
- mechanical engineering
- CAD
- GD&T
- mechanical design

### Nice to have
- spaceflight structures
- mechanisms
- FEA
- composite structures
- vacuum environment
- vibration environments

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