# Senior Mechanical Engineer: Optical Payload, Space

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 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.

Anduril's Space team is dedicated to expanding AI-powered capabilities into space, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners.

### Responsibilities

- Create opto-mechanical designs of space payloads ranging from small cameras to large telescopes

- Act as Responsible Engineer: conduct analyses, visit vendors and test sites, define and execute test plans, and manage subsystem interfaces

- Run finite element models and hand calculations to predict stresses in mechanical and optical components

- Contribute to STOP analyses to evaluate structural and thermal effects on optical performance

- Conduct hand calculations and run higher-order thermal analyses to evaluate survival and operational on-orbit temperatures

- Design alignment features and conduct tolerance stack-ups enabling sub-arcsecond payload pointing and stability over large temperature ranges

- Own hardware design from concept to launch, intelligently 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 mechanical design and packaging considerations

- 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 mechanical design experience and demonstrated track record of success

- Experience with exotic opto-mechanical materials

- Experience with tolerance stack-ups, mechanical alignments, kinematic mounting, and qualification test campaigns

- CAD proficiency and ability to create engineering drawings meeting industry standards

- Hands-on fabrication and assembly skills with hand tools, mill, lathe, etc.

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

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

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

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

### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in NX/Teamcenter

- Hands-on technical project experience

- Parallel industry experience

- Ability to integrate electronic components into mechanical designs

- Coding experience in Python, MATLAB, or C++

- Structural or thermal testing experience

### Benefits

- Competitive salary: $166,000-$220,000 USD

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

- Income protection: life and disability insurance

- Generous time off: highly competitive PTO plans

- Family planning and parenting support

- Mental health resources

- Professional development: annual reimbursement

- Commuter benefits

- Relocation assistance

- Retirement savings plan

## Skills

### Required
- opto-mechanical design
- mechanical analysis
- finite element modeling
- thermal analysis
- tolerance stack-ups
- mechanical alignments
- kinematic mounting
- qualification test campaigns
- CAD proficiency
- engineering drawings
- fabrication and assembly
- optics
- heat transfer
- statics
- solid mechanics
- materials
- high-reliability design
- athermalization
- vibration/shock resistance

### Nice to have
- NX/Teamcenter
- technical project experience
- parallel industry experience
- electronic component integration
- Python
- MATLAB
- C++
- structural testing
- thermal testing

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