# Spacecraft Mechanisms Engineer (Docking, Capture, and Mating Systems)

Golden, CO (Denver Metro) | On-Site | Full-Time About Rendezvous Robotics Today, everything we send to space is constrained by what fits inside a rocket fairing. That’s a fundamental bottleneck to building more capable spacecraft. Rendezvous Robotics is solving this problem with electromagnetic self-assembling tiles that enable spacecraft that are bigger and more powerful than anything that can be folded to fit into a rocket. We’re a small team based in Golden, Colorado, executing on a clear path from flight demonstration to our first operational systems. Our work spans hardware, software, and systems engineering, and we’re always looking for people who want to build things that matter. The Role We are looking for a Mid to Senior Level Spacecraft Mechanisms Engineer to own the design, analysis, and testing of the docking, capture, and mating systems that make in-space assembly of our self-assembling satellites possible, taking flight hardware from concept through qualification, production, and on-orbit operation. This is capture and mating hardware of the class flown on rendezvous, servicing, and robotic assembly missions, designed for repeated operation between free-flying spacecr

- **Id**: 832320
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rendezvousrobotics-spacecraft-mechanisms-engineer-docking-capture-and-mating-systems>
- **Role**: Aerospace
- **Role family**: Aerospace
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Golden, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-04T18:50:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T00:17:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 68
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6713
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Manufacturing, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 686549
- **Name**: Rendezvous Robotics
- **Domain**: rendezvousrobotics.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rendezvousrobotics>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 20
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 127
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 110000
- **Max**: 140000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 140000

## Technologies

- **GD&T** — Optional: no
- **Abaqus** — Optional: yes
- **ANSYS** — Optional: yes
- **Femap** — Optional: yes
- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Nastran** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 67

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T17:11:35Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 61
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.851
- **P room**: 0.72
- **Age days**: 67
- **Expected fill days**: 127
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:mid, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 140000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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