# Senior Mechanical Engineer

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $145,000-$195,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/astranis/jobs/4133327006
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d2638242-20a

## Description

As an Astranis Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will own the complete lifecycle of various subsystems on our spacecraft. You will work together with the various other teams at Astranis to make them a reality. In addition to being a significant individual on your own, you will mentor and train junior mechanical engineers on such projects.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Complete ownership of product outcomes for spaceflight hardware

- Developing requirements for subsystems and components, including loads, interfaces, and functional requirements

- Performing mechanical design and analysis of complex assemblies to satisfy launch and on-orbit requirements

- Developing and defining design best practices for future programs

- Managing system-level schedule and integration requirements for your subsystems while working together with the Assembly, Integration, and Test team to enable a smooth build process

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

Requirements include:

- B.S. or M.S in mechanical, aerospace engineering or equivalent

- 4-15+ years of mechanical design or equivalent experience

- Strong CAD design (Solidworks) and Finite Element analysis (Femap, Ansys) skills

- Experience with GD&T and designing for manufacturability

- Demonstrated ability to personally design, evaluate, and procure complex mechanical assemblies with 30-40 components in aerospace or similar

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

- A motivated leader who has experience mentoring and supporting junior engineers

Bonus requirements include:

- Experience with defining vibration environments and running mechanical testing on spacecraft and spacecraft components

- Experience running a development program while delegating to a small team

- Experience in synthesizing requirements and flowing them down to sub-scale verification builds and testing

## Skills

### Required
- CAD design
- Finite Element analysis
- GD&T
- design for manufacturability
- mechanical design
- aerospace engineering

### Nice to have
- vibration environments
- mechanical testing
- development program management
- team leadership