Senior Mechanical Engineer - RF Packaging

As an Astranis Senior Mechanical Engineer for Electronics Packaging you will own the complete lifecycle of various components and subsystems on our spacecraft. Whether it is incremental improvements or the introduction of a new system, you will work together with the various other teams at Astranis to make them a reality. 
 
In addition to being a significant individual on your own, you will mentor and train junior mechanical engineers on such projects. You must have a strong problem-solving background, hands-on testing skills, and preferably some experience with spacecraft and/or aerospace engineering.

Role

• Complete ownership of product outcomes for spaceflight hardware, with a focus on high frequency active and passive RF and digital electronics
• Develop requirements for subsystems and components including loads, interfaces, and functional requirements
• Perform mechanical design and analysis of complex electronics enclosures to satisfy launch and on-orbit requirements
• Develop and define design best practices for future programs
• Manage system level schedule and integration requirements for your components while working together with the Assembly, Integration, and Test team to enable a smooth build process
• Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S in mechanical, electrical, aerospace engineering, or equivalent
• 4 - 15+ years of mechanical design or equivalent experience
• 3+ years designing, analyzing, and testing active or passive high frequency RF electronics packages.  Examples include phased array antenna packaging, SSPAs, waveguide assemblies, feedplanes, filters, RF enclosures, and MUX/DEMUX. 
• Familiarity with chip and wire and splitblock construction
• Strong CAD design and Finite Element analysis skills
• Experience with GD&T and designing for manufacturability
• Demonstrated ability to personally design, evaluate, and procure complex mechanical assemblies with 30-40 components in aerospace or similar
• A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment with hands-on design and development
• A motivated leader who has experience mentoring and supporting junior engineers
• Don't meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.

Bonus

• Experience with Ku, Ka, and Q/V band electronics package development for space missions
• Experience with thermal analysis and thermal management techniques for RF electronics in space applications, including with heat pipes
• Experience with vibration environments and mechanical testing on spacecraft components
• Experience with brazed construction techniques for RF packages
• Experience in synthesizing requirements and flowing them down to sub-scale verification builds and testing