# Senior Mechanisms Engineer - Payloads at Varda

- Company: Varda
- What the company does: Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Founders Fund.
- Company website: https://varda.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: El Segundo, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $179K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vardaspace/jobs/7997889003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/varda-senior-mechanisms-engineer-payloads/

## About the role

As a Senior Mechanisms Engineer on Varda’s Payload team, you will develop electromechanical flight hardware that operates in orbit, endures hypersonic reentry, and returns to Earth for inspection and iteration. You will own multi-payload missions across both pharmaceutical manufacturing and hypersonic reentry testbed missions—driving hardware from concept through design, analysis, build, test, launch, and recovery.

## What they're looking for

- BS/BEng in Mechanical, Aerospace, Mechatronics, or related field
- 4+ years of experience designing, integrating, testing, and troubleshooting electromechanical hardware
- Strong mechanical expertise with breadth in at least one adjacent discipline (avionics, software, thermal, optics, test, etc.)
- Experience delivering hardware into rigorous environments (aerospace, defense, medical, automotive, etc.)
- Ability to independently define tasks, manage schedules, and deliver integrated hardware
- Excellent cross-discipline communication skills

Tags: Payload & Mechanisms