Salary
$120k – $170k per year
Location
In office (Hawthorne)
Seniority
Junior · 1+ year exp
Employment
Full-Time
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 25, 2026.
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The First Hotel on the Moon Take Part in Humanity's Journey to the Next Frontier. A pressurized test payload is placed on the lunar surface to evaluate controlled environmental conditions, alongside early construction experiments using locally sourced materials.
Backed by Y Combinator, Garage Capital, Entropy Industrial Capital
Your product will land on the Moon next year.
You’ll design, build, and test our 2027 Lunar Payload: the one that manufactures humanity’s first bricks on the Moon and deploys an inflatable habitat bladder. This is hands-on, full-lifecycle hardware engineering at a pace most aerospace companies can’t keep up with.
What you’ll do:
- Own the mechanical design of the payload from concept through flight hardware.
- Rapidly prototype, test, break things, and iterate.
- Manage ICD with the lunar lander provider and be the primary point of contact.
- Run and interpret structural/mechanism analysis to support design trades.
What we’re looking for:
- Deep fluency with CAD and FEA tools: you think in 3D and can back it up with analysis.
- Experience designing spaceflight hardware end-to-end (build, test, deploy).
- Comfort with mechanisms: actuators, seals, deployables, pressure systems, end effectors, and more.
- You’re using the latest AI tools every day (i.e., Opus 4.6/GPT 5.4, in appropriate harness) to massively increase your output and do things you otherwise couldn’t.
- You’ve built flight hardware before.
If you want to maximize the probability that humanity becomes interplanetary in your lifetime, apply and share a portfolio of the technical work you’re most proud of.
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2. Take-home challenge (24 hours)
3. Onsite at our warehouse
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