Varda Space
Mechanisms Engineer - Payloads
El Segundo, California, United States · Staff+
No sponsorship$104k-$122kDetected 14 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentCybersecurityANSYSFEAAvionicsEMI/EMCLeadershipCommunicationActuatorsFiber Optics
About the role
- This role is ideal for engineers with strong mechanical fundamentals who want to grow their breadth across thermal, fluids, avionics, software, and integration while shipping real hardware to space and back.
Responsibilities
- Own payload hardware from concept through design, integration, launch, reentry, and recovery
- Design mechanisms, structures, thermal/fluid interfaces, and electromechanical assemblies
- Build, instrument, and test prototypes and flight hardware
- Support mission operations and post-flight teardown
- Relocation support for new hires, if needed
Requirements
- Ability to communicate effectively across disciplines
Nice to have
- Experience integrating electromechanical actuators, sensors, thermal control hardware and/or fluid control hardware
- Experience using CAD (NX preferred) and FEA (Ansys, Nastran)
- Exposure to aerospace environmental testing (vibration, TVAC, EMI/EMC)
- Customer-facing technical communication experience
- Ability to obtain a government security clearance
Compensation
- Engineer I: $104,000.00 - $122,000.00/per year
- Engineer II: $119,000.00 - $153,000.00/per year
- Leveling and base salary is determined by job-related skills, education level, experience level, and job performance
- Substantial incentive equity in a fully funded space start-up
- $20/pay period cell phone reimbursement
Benefits
- Flexible PTO policy + 12 paid holidays
- 100% company-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans for employees and dependents with FSA and employer-matched HSA options
- $120/month wellness reimbursement for gym and fitness expenses
- 12 weeks of parental leave (with supplemental disability leave for CA mothers)
- Family building, pregnancy, parenting and menopause benefits via Maven Clinic
- Sponsored One Medical memberships for employees and their dependents
- Substantial incentive equity in a fully funded space start-up
- 401(k) retirement plan with 6% employer match (immediately vested)
- $20/pay period cell phone reimbursement
Visa & Work Authorization
- Varda, like all employers, must ensure that its employees working in the United States are lawfully authorized to work in the U.S. Additionally, our employees are exposed to and have access to certain export-controlled items.
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