How much experience is required?

4–6 years of relevant experience for this Mechanical Engineer role.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: CAD.

What seniority level is this role?

Reflect Orbital targets mid-level candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Mechanical Engineer role at Reflect Orbital.

Mechanical Engineer at Reflect Orbital

Joblaze summary

In the role of Mechanical Engineer at Reflect Orbital, the individual will focus on the rapid design, prototyping, and validation of spacecraft subcomponents, ensuring that hardware meets stringent performance criteria. Key skills include extensive CAD proficiency and a solid background in high-reliability mechanical systems, ideally with experience in flight hardware. This position is suited for candidates with 4-6 years of relevant experience who thrive in fast-paced environments and are eager to take ownership of their projects. Reflect Orbital emphasizes a culture of innovation and adaptability, welcoming diverse backgrounds and unique skill sets.

Joblaze insights

Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Reflect Orbital's career page.
Reflect Orbital has 23 other open roles including Head of Environmental Health and Safety, Director, Permitting, Orbit Operations Engineer.
289 active CAD roles on Joblaze right now.
Typical CAD salary we track runs $100,000–$140,000 (median $105,000, across 117 roles).

Quick facts

How much experience is required?: 4–6 years of relevant experience for this Mechanical Engineer role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: CAD.
What seniority level is this role?: Reflect Orbital targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Mechanical Engineer role at Reflect Orbital.

From the original posting

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.

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.

Responsibilities

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

Ideal Qualifications

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

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you. Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.

We are also interested in carving out unique roles for unconventional people that we are excited about working with.

Benefits

Reflect Orbital’s success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we’re able.

Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy
Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K
Unlimited paid time off
Healthy lunches provided daily

Equal Opportunity

Reflect Orbital is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Reflect Orbital is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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