As a Senior Avionics Mechanical Engineer at Impulse for our Avionics Team, you are responsible for the design, build, test/analysis & integration of your hardware– working with cross-functional engineering teams to accomplish this. This means cradle-to-grave ownership of mechanical designs and systems in support of Impulse’s collection of next generation advanced propulsion space vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Own all aspects of hardware development and execution, from concept through design, test, and launch
• Formulate the comprehensive cradle to grave Road Map for your hardware
• Navigate ambiguity to establish requirements that will ensure success at a system level
• Perform and document analysis with clear objectives to support design intent including hand calculations and FEA
• Incorporate manufacturing trades into conceptual design to explore different fabrication and assembly methods, with emphasis on DFM and DFA
• Proactively guide all aspects of your hardware’s maturity, project managing your hardware’s end users, stakeholders, and adjacent contributors to ensure all aspects of the system continue to mature together and that your assumptions are well understood outside yourself and remain valid
• Communicate effectively to ensure adjacent designs (such as vehicle, GNC, electrical, and software subsystems) are accounting for and supporting your hardware assumptions
• Conduct design reviews (CoDR, PDR, CDR) to cross-disciplinary teams to communicate the impacts of your design, and establish open risks and mitigations
• Analyze structural modes, thermal performance, and other critical aspects of avionics devices
• Produce engineering drawings with required specifications for manufacturing using GD&T
• Generate Test Plans and provide direct support to ensure successful execution of your hardware’s structural and thermal qualification and acceptance testing.
• Work with internal manufacturing team and external sources to procure materials, fabricate parts, and complete assemblies
• Update designs and documentation to support continuous improvement

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field
• 4+ years of demonstrated experience in mechanical design
• Demonstrated proficiency in CAD software with ability to learn new tools
• Demonstrated ability in conceptual design, fabrication and testing of hardware
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively across different teams
• Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale and/or resolve concerns

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Masters’ degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
• 7+ years’ of demonstrated mechanical design & analysis with space-flown hardware
• 4+ years’ of demonstrated understanding of geometric dimensioning & tolerancing (GD&T)
• 4+ years’ of demonstrated experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Experience with mechanical design in challenging vibration/thermal environments
• In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who is uniquely creative, self-driven, and is able to lead his or her own projects to completion
• Experience at a startup or agile development environment
• Experience with NX and Teamcenter

• Own all aspects of hardware development and execution, from concept through design, test, and launch
• Formulate the comprehensive cradle to grave Road Map for your hardware
• Navigate ambiguity to establish requirements that will ensure success at a system level
• Perform and document analysis with clear objectives to support design intent including hand calculations and FEA
• Incorporate manufacturing trades into conceptual design to explore different fabrication and assembly methods, with emphasis on DFM and DFA
• Proactively guide all aspects of your hardware’s maturity, project managing your hardware’s end users, stakeholders, and adjacent contributors to ensure all aspects of the system continue to mature together and that your assumptions are well understood outside yourself and remain valid
• Communicate effectively to ensure adjacent designs (such as vehicle, GNC, electrical, and software subsystems) are accounting for and supporting your hardware assumptions
• Conduct design reviews (CoDR, PDR, CDR) to cross-disciplinary teams to communicate the impacts of your design, and establish open risks and mitigations
• Analyze structural modes, thermal performance, and other critical aspects of avionics devices
• Produce engineering drawings with required specifications for manufacturing using GD&T
• Generate Test Plans and provide direct support to ensure successful execution of your hardware’s structural and thermal qualification and acceptance testing.
• Work with internal manufacturing team and external sources to procure materials, fabricate parts, and complete assemblies
• Update designs and documentation to support continuous improvemen