Company:
Vast
Location: Long Beach
Closing Date: 26/10/2024
Salary: £150 - £200 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
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
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