Senior Mechanical Systems Engineer

Voyager Technologies is an innovative space, defense, and national security technology company. They are seeking a Senior Mechanical Systems Engineer to help shape the future of lunar technologies and missions, focusing on the design and development of spacecraft systems and structures.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and review new concepts and designs of lunar landers, rovers, surface power systems, and spacecraft
• Support the development and technical content creation for mission opportunities and internal development programs
• Perform and review system-level analysis and first order sizing of space systems
• Develop and manage full spacecraft-level vehicle configurations in CAD, performing preliminary structural analysis, packaging, and sizing from launch through surface operations
• Design and develop spacecraft structures for lunar landers, orbiters, and rovers
• Perform preliminary mechanical design and analysis of spacecraft structures and mechanisms, including deployment and offloading fixtures, tipover and stability assessments, and terramechanics evaluations
• Design and assess payload and subsystem accommodations within a complex spacecraft
• Contribute to programmatic topics such as schedules, resourcing, and budgets estimations
• Communicate with other engineering disciplines, partners, customers, and vendors to resolve technical risks and challenges
• Occasionally participate in visits and technical interchange meetings with customer and partner organizations
• Translate abstract customer requirements into actionable product goals and system architectures that can be presented to customers, utilized in proposals, and marketed to stakeholders
• Lead and participate in cross functional team meetings to ensure engineering solutions comply with mission and business needs and company technology roadmap
• Develop and perform trade studies to support technical, business, and/or programmatic actions and decision-making
• Develop and support the system-level technical vision for new products - connecting customer needs with feasible, high-performing solutions across hardware and software domains

Requirements:

• S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or similar related discipline plus 5-10 years of relevant engineering experience. Relevant advanced degree will be considered in lieu of equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience development complex mechanical systems at scale
• Demonstrated experience conducting preliminary structural analysis of space systems
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following areas: space system development, systems engineering, structure/thermal design and analysis, mechanical & fluid systems, and/or manufacturing
• Experience developing technical content for proposals and external customer presentations
• Experience authoring and decomposing mission and system-level requirements
• Strong understanding of the launch, space, and lunar environments
• Understanding of full end-to-end mission solutions
• Experience with mission architecture development
• Demonstrated experience writing and reviewing software scripts for automation & analysis
• Knowledge of NASA/industry engineering standards
• Demonstrated experience working in an agile environment, using organizational tools such as Confluence and Jira
• Eligibility to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance