Solar Array Engineer, Mechanical

📋 Description

• Design and analyze mechanisms for solar array deployment, including spring-driven hinges, latches
• Design and analyze mechanisms for solar array articulation, including motorized gimbals, gear
• Build and maintain torque budgets for deployment and articulation mechanisms, including friction
• Select and specify bearings, lubricants, motors, gearboxes, encoders/resolvers, and other
• Perform or support mechanism life analysis — bearing life, lubricant life, wear analysis — and
• Design for integration and test — develop deployment test procedures, gravity offload approaches

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or related discipline
• 5–10 years of experience designing, building, and testing electromechanical systems — preferably
• Demonstrated experience with mechanism design fundamentals: bearings, gears, motors, springs
• Ability to build and defend a torque budget or force budget for a mechanism from first principles
• Experience with environmental testing of mechanical hardware (vibration, thermal cycling, life
• Hands-on experience — you have built, assembled, or integrated the hardware you designed

🎁 Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• generous paid time off; up to 20+ days of vacation for exempt staff and up to 10+ days of vacation
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability insurance
• life insurance
• access to a 401(k) retirement plan