Mechanical Engineer
- Location
- Hawthorne, CA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Listed
- 30 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- spacecraft mechanical design
- CAD
- bolted joint design
- flight hardware qualification
Also useful
- machine shop tolerancing
Stated benefits & perks
- Health
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k
- Unlimited pto
About the role
At Reflect, you will be expected to move fast, have a lot of ownership and, most importantly, be able to effect change. If this excites you, we are interested in hearing about your best work and accomplishments across any domain and from any points in your life.
About the Role
As a Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for quickly designing, prototyping, and flight validating spacecraft subcomponents and integrating mechanical systems on tight deadlines. Your highest priority is delivering functional hardware that strikes a balance between simplicity, scrappiness, analytical rigor and ingenuity.
Responsibilities
- Deliver flight-ready critical spacecraft components
- Take hardware and mechanisms from conceptual design through qualification to on-orbit operations
- Correlate analysis of your components to ensure reliability in the space environment
Ideal Qualifications
- You bring roughly 4-6 years of mechanical design experience, ideally on flight hardware or similar high-reliability mechanical systems.
- You have owned spacecraft components from clean-sheet to spaceflight
- Extensive CAD experience
- You can teach a class on the design of bolted joints
- You know what tolerances the machine shop can hit without needing to ask them
- You have strong experience collaboratively designing complex interdependent systems
Additional information
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you. Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.
We are also interested in carving out unique roles for unconventional people that we are excited about working with.
Benefits
Reflect Orbital’s success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we’re able.
- Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy
- Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K
- Unlimited paid time off
- Healthy lunches provided daily
Equal opportunity and legal notices
Reflect Orbital is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Reflect Orbital is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
More about Reflect Orbital:
From Reflect Orbital's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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What qualifications are required for Mechanical Engineer at Reflect Orbital?
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