This is an opportunity to become one of the first engineers at a venture-backed space company tackling one of the biggest infrastructure challenges of the next decade: enabling AI compute at unprecedented scale.
The company is developing a new class of spacecraft designed to support high-performance computing in orbit, creating an entirely new category at the intersection of aerospace, energy, and AI infrastructure. With major milestones planned over the next few years, they are looking for a Mechanical & Structural Engineer to take ownership of the spacecraft architecture that makes the mission possible.
Why join?
Own an entire engineering discipline
As a founding member of the engineering team, you will lead all mechanical and structural development for the spacecraft platform. Rather than owning a small subsystem, you'll have responsibility for major design decisions that directly influence flight hardware and future generations of the platform.
Build hardware that flies
This is a rare opportunity to work on spacecraft with a near-term flight timeline. Your work will directly contribute to upcoming orbital missions and the development of a scalable space infrastructure platform.
Shape the company from the ground floor
With a team of fewer than ten people, every engineer has significant influence over technical decisions, processes, suppliers, and long-term product direction. You'll work directly with company leadership and play a key role in building the engineering organization as it grows.
Solve genuinely difficult engineering challenges
You'll tackle problems spanning spacecraft structures, deployable mechanisms, launch loads, thermal integration, materials selection, radiation protection, and constellation-scale design. The role is ideal for engineers who enjoy first-principles problem solving and taking ownership of complex systems.
What you'll d
- Lead the design and development of spacecraft structures and mechanical systems
- Own deployable hardware including solar arrays, radiators, and associated mechanisms
- Perform and review structural analyses, vibration assessments, and launch load evaluations
- Collaborate closely with manufacturing partners and suppliers to mature designs into flight-ready hardware
- Develop engineering requirements and trade studies for future spacecraft generations
- Help define the mechanical architecture of a constellation-scale space platform
Ideal background
- 5+ years of spacecraft mechanical or structural engineering experience
- Experience supporting flight hardware through launch and mission operations
- Strong structural analysis and FEA capability
- Experience with deployable spacecraft systems, mechanisms, or structures
- Comfortable operating in a highly autonomous, fast-moving environment
- Motivated by ownership, responsibility, and ambitious technical challenges
The Opportunity
This role offers the chance to join at the beginning of an ambitious space venture, take ownership of a critical engineering function, and help build spacecraft designed for an entirely new application of space infrastructure.
For engineers who want their work to have visible impact, who enjoy solving hard problems, and who are excited by the prospect of helping define a new category in aerospace, this is a rare ground-floor opportunity.
