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Mechanical Engineer

Reflect Orbital · Hawthorne, CA · On-site

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About Reflect Orbital

Backed by Sequoia and Lux.

About the role

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for quickly designing, prototyping, and flight validating spacecraft subcomponents and integrating mechanical systems on tight deadlines. Your highest priority is delivering functional hardware that strikes a balance between simplicity, scrappiness, analytical rigor and ingenuity. Take hardware and mechanisms from conceptual design through qualification to on-orbit operations

What they're looking for

  • You bring roughly 4–6 years of mechanical design experience, ideally on flight hardware or similar high-reliability mechanical systems
  • You have owned spacecraft components from clean-sheet to spaceflight
  • Extensive CAD experience
  • You can teach a class on the design of bolted joints
  • You know what tolerances the machine shop can hit without needing to ask them
  • You have strong experience collaboratively designing complex interdependent systems
More about this role

At Reflect, you will be expected to move fast, have a lot of ownership and, most importantly, be able to effect change. If this excites you, we are interested in hearing about your best work and accomplishments across any domain and from any points in your life.

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for quickly designing, prototyping, and flight validating spacecraft subcomponents and integrating mechanical systems on tight deadlines. Your highest priority is delivering functional hardware that strikes a balance between simplicity, scrappiness, analytical rigor and ingenuity.

Deliver flight-ready critical spacecraft components

Take hardware and mechanisms from conceptual design through qualification to on-orbit operations

Correlate analysis of your components to ensure reliability in the space environment

You bring roughly 4–6 years of mechanical design experience, ideally on flight hardware or similar high-reliability mechanical systems.

You have owned spacecraft components from clean-sheet to spaceflight

Extensive CAD experience

You can teach a class on the design of bolted joints

You know what tolerances the machine shop can hit without needing to ask them

You have...

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