Commercial alternative to the Deep Space Network. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
We are looking for a teammate who is excited to be a part of a tiny startup, ship real products made out of metal, and work on cool space stuff. You will have the opportunity to help build out the team, shape the cultural and engineering norms, and own a large part of our early success. We're building toward the future of spaceflight and human expansion into the solar system; wouldn't it be cool to help get that off the ground?
What they're looking for
- BS or MS in mechanical engineering (or equivalent experience)
- 4+ years of experience designing and deploying complex hardware systems
- Experience integrating electronics into outdoor or environmentally exposed systems
- Demonstrated experience with thermal management of sensitive or high-power electronics
- Experience designing precision mechanical assemblies where alignment and structural stability are critical
- Proficiency in 3D CAD and familiarity with structural (eg FEA) and/or thermal analysis tools
More about this role
Cascade Space is building ground-based physical infrastructure and software tools to support customer spacecraft exploring the moon and beyond. We recently raised a seed round and are excited to make our first mechanical engineering hire!
For our planned global network of ground stations, instead of building single large dishes, we are building arrays of dishes that are combined with a digital beamformer into one large aperture, comparable to a Deep Space Network 34 meter dish. Each array is ultimately a physical object with unique and challenging constraints — this is where you come in.
We are looking for a teammate who is excited to be a part of a tiny startup, ship real products made out of metal, and work on cool space stuff. You will have the opportunity to help build out the team, shape the cultural and engineering norms, and own a large part of our early success. We're building toward the future of spaceflight and human expansion into the solar system; wouldn't it be cool to help get that off the ground? Actually, the dish needs to stay bolted to the ground, that's an important part of your job.
While some of what makes the array possible is owned by dark wizards practicing...
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