Astrolab

Overview

Astrolab is The Lunar Operations Company, focused on designing and building systems and hardware for lunar exploration. As a Mechanical Engineer, you will contribute to the development of critical hardware for the Astrolab lunar rover.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the engineering design team to understand the mechanical needs of the Astrolab rover.
• Design and analyze mechanical systems at the full system, sub system, and component level using software simulation methods and experimental test data.
• Define component requirements and communicate lunar operational constraints within the team.
• Make flight hardware selection decisions and develop the build flow for integrating hardware into the vehicle for flight.
• Develop test plans to validate and qualify mechanical subsystems for flight.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) field.
• 3+ years of experience in mechanical system engineering.
• Experience using CAD software for part modeling and development.
• Experience using software packages for finite element modeling and analysis.
• Experience in design for manufacturing and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing of parts.
• Master’s degree in a STEM field is preferred.
• Experience in the engineering of structures, mechanisms, electro-mechanical systems, thermal hardware is preferred.
• Experience planning and executing flight hardware development programs from the ground up is preferred.
• Experience specifying and executing hardware qualification and acceptance test programs is preferred.
• Ability to mentor and develop junior mechanical engineers is preferred.

Benefits

• Equity ownership
• Health Insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• PTO
• 401k

Additional Information

• Location: Hawthorne, California