Location | Kent, Washington, United States |
Salary | $104,500 - $141,100 Level 3 Range: $123,000 - $184,500 Level 4 Range: $144,100 - $240,100 Equal Opportunity The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including with respect to disability and veteran status |
Years of Experience | 3+ years of experience |
Remote | See job post for details |
First listed | In the last 1 month |
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Job Description
A thriving economy in space is needed to make life on Earth more vibrant, sustainable, and equitable. Space technology will enable global access to information, solutions to climate change, answers to global food security, products that transform healthcare, clean energy production, and more. Today, rocket launch options are slow, expensive, and unreliable. Stoke is building the world’s most efficient fully and rapidly reusable rocket designed to fly daily that will radically increase access to space and open up the space economy to safeguard our precious home, Earth.
Description
The avionics system is the backbone of highly reusable, operable, and reliable space systems. As an Avionics Mechanical Engineer at an early-stage start-up you will be responsible for developing mechanical solutions for component packaging and launch vehicle integration of flight avionics hardware. You will work closely with the avionics development, structures, and production teams to design and implement those solutions, and continuously iterate to improve your designs. You will seek out state-of-the-art solutions to difficult problems and you will assist in the definition of company standards for avionics development. You must be ready to stay focused, move fast, self-direct, and learn on the fly.
Responsibilities
- Design, manufacture, and test packaging for flight avionics electronics and electro-mechanical actuators
- Design, manufacture, and integrate secondary structures used to integrate avionics components and harnessing on flight vehicle
- Perform thermal, structural, and tolerance analysis for electro-mechanical assemblies using both hand calculations and finite element analysis
- Develop mechanical design, 3D modeling, creation of production drawings and maintenance of design data
- Failure analysis of components as it relates to thermal, loads, vibration and shock
- Interface with machine shops and production teams to integrate design for manufacturing best practices and produce hardware needed for qualification and flight
- Own the hardware delivery timeline and success through inception, design, assembly, test, and integration
- Lead design reviews both internally externally
- Drive continuous improvement efforts to increase throughput and reduce cost to meet launch target
Qualifications
- B.S. degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
- 3+ years of experience with mechanical or electromechanical design and analysis
Preferred Qualifications
- Self-motivated with strong organizational, written, and oral communication skills
- Experience with CAD and FEA software packages including NX and Ansys
- Experience designing electronics component packaging for extreme environments
- Experience with harness routing
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes including machining, 3D printing, and sheet metal fabrication
- Exposure to high volume production designs with a focus on design for manufacturability
- Exposure to designing for high vibration environments
- Ability to perform thermal analysis for avionics components
- Experience with fatigue and thermal testing of electro-mechanical assemblies
- Solid understanding and application of GD&T
- Experience working with PCB designers and exposure to PCB layout
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Rigorous attention to detail
- Ability to lead
- Ability to follow
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Flexible scheduling
- Meaningful equity
Compensation
Target Level:
- Level 2 Range: $104,500 - $141,100
- Level 3 Range: $123,000 - $184,500
- Level 4 Range: $144,100 - $240,100
Equal Opportunity
The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including with respect to disability and veteran status. It is committed to compliance with all equal opportunity laws, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and Title VII. It does not discriminate on the basis of nationality, race, citizenship, immigration status, or any other protected class when it comes to employment practices, including hiring.
Employment at the Company is contingent upon satisfactory completion of reference and backgroundchecks, and on your ability to prove your identity and authorization to work in the U.S. for the Company. Employees must comply with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services employment verification requirements, and, therefore, they must complete an Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 at the start of employment and re-verify authorization to work periodically.
Separate from this I-9 process, this position entails access to certain technology and technical data that is restricted under U.S. export control laws and regulations. Employment or continued employment may be conditioned on your legal authorization to work with or have access to export control materials as necessary to perform your job.
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