Senior Mechanical Engineer, Avionics Long Beach, California, United States

Vast is looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer, Avionics , reporting to the Staff Mechanical Engineer, to support the development of the Avionics, RF, and Power systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations. This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach, CA location.

Responsibilities:

• Function in a cross disciplinary team and a dynamic design environment.
• Support electronics development and trade studies, and create interface definition, specification, and control documents.
• Validate requirements through design, test, analysis, or inspection.
• Plan and conduct tests, review and interpret data.
• Create assembly and/or installation drawings and support hardware builds.
• Design avionics enclosure and mounting solutions for high reliability in harsh environments.
• Participate in the entire design cycle of flight and mission critical avionics.
• Work with the electrical engineering team to design rugged printed circuit board systems.
• Complete thermal and structural analyses of these designs.
• Create engineering drawings and manage the product configuration of the integrated designs through the product lifecycle.
• Review test plans and manage testing and qualification of the product.
• Design and/or support integration brackets of avionics components into the space station.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors of science degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other engineering discipline.
• 4+ years of experience with electronics packaging and/or critical electronic components in extreme environments.
• Working experience with 3D CAD programs.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Masters of science degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other engineering discipline.
• Working experience with NX preferred.
• Experience designing ruggedized electronics enclosures or similar high-performance hardware.
• Experience with recent versions of NX, Teamcenter.
• Familiarity with environmental testing similar to SMC-S-016, and/or MIL-STD-810.
• Familiarity with circuit card design per IPC-A-610 and/or J standards.
• Familiarity with harness design per IPC-A-620 and/or NASA standards.
• Thermal and structural analysis experience using ANSYS or similar.
• Experience with electrical schematic reviews and electrical schematic capture software (Altium or similar).
• Experience with GD&T implementation and analysis (ASME Y14.5).

Additional Requirements:

• Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones.

Pay Range :

• Senior Mechanical Engineer, Avionics Level III: $135,000-$170,000