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Designs and owns spacecraft mechanical hardware from concept through production and flight. Responsibilities include developing structures, mechanisms, thermal systems, drawings, and engineering documentation; performing FEA, thermal, and tolerance analyses; prototyping and testing; supporting integration and launch readiness; troubleshooting hardware; and collaborating with suppliers, manufacturers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Lead propulsion analysis for rocket engines and vehicles using FEA, CFD, thermal, static, dynamic, and fatigue simulations. Develop and enforce modeling standards, collaborate with design, hardware, and test teams, validate models against physical results, drive design improvements, and produce clear technical documentation. The role is onsite in Seattle and requires strong multiphysics simulation, numerical analysis, and thermal/fluid network expertise.

Own manufacturing and assembly of turbopump hardware from design for manufacturability through production. Define build processes, work instructions, inspection plans, tooling, fixtures, cleanliness controls, and acceptance criteria. Lead floor assembly, dimensional verification, rotor balancing, nonconformance disposition, rework, repair, and root-cause improvements. Improve cycle time, yield, and production readiness while supporting suppliers with process capability, first articles, equipment qualification, and new process development.

Work across spacecraft engineering disciplines—design, build, integrate, test, and operate satellite systems (avionics, power, thermal, structures, GNC, payloads, flight software and ground systems). Hands-on, mission-critical hardware responsibility in a fast-moving startup environment.

Lead design, development, and testing of payload flight software in Rust for attitude/pointing, command handling, telemetry, and data storage. Define architecture and coding conventions, implement FDIR, build automated test infrastructure (simulation/HIL), integrate with GNC/avionics/electrical teams, support integration, launch, and on-orbit ops, investigate anomalies, and mentor other engineers to achieve a near-term on-orbit demonstration.

Design, analyze, develop, and validate rocket engine injectors from concept through hotfire and flight. Lead physics-based sizing, manufacturing selection, test campaign planning and execution, hotfire data analysis, and iterative redesign while partnering with vehicle and test-stand engineers.

Lead end-to-end mechanical design and manufacturing for TCA rocket engine components. Drive DFM-focused design, tooling and fixture creation, implement advanced fabrication (additive, CNC, EDM, specialized joining), develop process parameters, and plan/execute hotfire test campaigns with analysis and rapid redesign for flight qualification.

Design and implement motor control and embedded real-time firmware for fluid system valves, pumps, and actuators. Develop closed-loop controllers, automated fill/drain/vent sequences, FDIR logic, HIL testing, and system-level validation. Integrate sensors, actuators, and control electronics; support propulsion hot-fire tests, ground ops, anomaly investigation, and cross-team integration with avionics and software.

Build and lead the Launch & Propulsion analysis organization: define analysis philosophy and margin policy; oversee structural, thermal, and CFD analyses; develop toolchain and automated workflows; correlate models with test/flight data; hire and grow the team; set documentation and V&V standards; coordinate with design, test, manufacturing, and assurance; and present substantiation at program milestones.

Lead design, analysis, testing, and manufacturing integration for the vehicle primary structures (airframe, tanks, thrust structure, interstages). Optimize for minimum mass, strength, stiffness, fatigue, thermal resilience, and rapid reuse. Drive FEA and hand calculations, execute structural test campaigns, close failure modes through rapid design-test-learn cycles, and support flight operations and refurbishment.