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We're looking for a Mechanical Engineer / Mechanical Design Specialist to support the design, development, and integration E1 Engine, the heart of our vehicle. This role is focused on real hardware ownership: translating system requirements into robust, manufacturable, flight-ready mechanical designs and driving them from early concept through test and flight.\nYou will work across structures, avionics, fluids, and propulsion to develop hardware ranging that supports the engines. This is a highly cross-functional role for an engineer who is equally comfortable in CAD, engineering analysis, manufacturing discussions, and test execution. If you want to solve practical, multidisciplinary design problems and help turn an integrated launch vehicle into real hardware, this is the role.\nWhat you'll do\nOwn the design and development of mechanical hardware and integrated assemblies supporting the E1 Engine and its variants.\nOwn and be accountable for mechanical systems from concept through design, supplier discussion, manufacturing, test, iteration, and flight integration.\nTranslate requirements into mechanical concepts, detailed designs, and released hardware that meet functional, structural, thermal, packaging, manufacturability, and reliability targets.\nDevelop CAD models, detailed drawings, interface definitions, and release packages for hardware spanning prototype, development, qualification, and flight configurations.\nPerform engineering analyses appropriate to the hardware, including hand calculations and FEA-supported assessments related to strength, stiffness, vibration, thermal effects, tolerance stack-up, fit-up, and functional performance.\nDrive packaging and integration of mechanical hardware within tight vehicle environments, balancing accessibility, maintainability, assembly flow, mass, and interface constraints.\nPartner closely with structures, avionics, propulsion, fluids, manufacturing, integration, and test teams to ensure designs are practical, well integrated, and executable.\nSupport design-for-manufacture and design-for-assembly decisions, with a strong understanding of manufacturing and assembly processes, and relevant interfaces.\nQualifications\nRequired\nExperience in mechanical design and development for aerospace, automotive, or similarly demanding hardware environments; expectations will scale with level.\nStrong experience owning mechanical components or assemblies from concept through detailed design, manufacturing, build, test, and deployment.\nProficiency in CAD and mechanical drawing creation, with the ability to generate clear, manufacturable, and well-controlled hardware definitions.\nStrong engineering fundamentals, including statics, strength of materials, basic structural mechanics, tolerance stack-ups, fits, joints, and practical design for real hardware.\nAbility to perform and interpret engineering analyses using a combination of first-principles calculations and FEM/FEA tools, with sound judgment on the level of analysis appropriate to the problem.\nExperience working across disciplines to integrate mechanical hardware with adjacent systems.\nExperience with tolerance analysis, stack-up management, GD&T, interface control, and assembly alignment in tightly constrained hardware environments.\nStrong understanding of manufacturing processes and how design decisions affect producibility, cost, quality, schedule, assembly, and inspection.\nAbility to operate with ownership in a fast-paced, cross-functional hardware development environment.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills, especially across design, analysis, manufacturing, and integration boundaries.\nPreferred\nDirect experience designing aerospace vehicle hardware, propulsion support hardware, fluid system hardware, avionics mechanical packaging, or other highly integrated electromechanical or mechanical systems.\nExperience with routed systems and hardware such as pneumatic lines, tubes, fittings, valves, manifolds, brackets, actuator mounts, reservoirs, and pressure-containing assemblies.\nHands-on experience with machining, sheet metal, welded assemblies, bent tube design, machined manifolds, additive manufacturing, composites, or other relevant aerospace fabrication methods.\nFamiliarity with rapid design-build-test hardware development environments.\nBachelor's or advanced degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related field.\n*note: To hold the title of Engineer, and take responsibility for designs that impact public safety, candidates are required to hold a current P.Eng License, in good 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