- Job title
- Mechanical Engineer
- Job location
- Hawthorne, CA, US
- Job description
- **Your product will land on the Moon next year.**
You’ll design, build, and test our 2027 Lunar Payload: the one that manufactures humanity’s first bricks on the Moon and deploys an inflatable habitat bladder. This is hands-on, full-lifecycle hardware engineering at a pace most aerospace companies can’t keep up with.
**What you’ll do:**
* Own the mechanical design of the payload from concept through flight hardware.
* Rapidly prototype, test, break things, and iterate.
* Manage ICD with the lunar lander provider and be the primary point of contact.
* Run and interpret structural/mechanism analysis to support design trades.
**What we’re looking for:**
* Deep fluency with CAD and FEA tools: you think in 3D and can back it up with analysis.
* Experience designing spaceflight hardware end-to-end (build, test, deploy).
* Comfort with mechanisms: actuators, seals, deployables, pressure systems, end effectors, and more.
* You’re using the latest AI tools every day (i.e., Opus 4.6/GPT 5.4, in appropriate harness) to massively increase your output and do things you otherwise couldn’t.
* You’ve built flight hardware before.
If you want to maximize the probability that humanity becomes interplanetary in your lifetime, apply and share a portfolio of the technical work you’re most proud of.
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