First Stage Senior Design Engineer

MaiaSpace; Fontainebleau; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MaiaSpace seeks a Senior Design Engineer to join the First Stage Team for stage layout and interface design. You will help define hardware layouts, perform trade-offs, and model components in SolidWorks, ensuring mass and cost targets are met.

You will collaborate with other teams, manage SolidWorks PDM data, and support supplier contacts. Fluency in English and French is expected; office in La Défense.

Qualifications

• Prior demonstrated experience on mechanical architecture activities of vehicles (automotive, naval construction, aeronautics, space industry).
• Prior experience in CAD design with SolidWorks.
• Knowledge on bill-of-material management with SolidWorks PDM or equivalent.
• Knowledge on metallic material properties and manufacturing processes.
• English level sufficient to read and write technical documentation, to perform oral technical presentation and to interact on technical topics.
• Mechanical engineering degree (+5 years post-Baccalaureate) ideally specialized in structure design.
• At least 3 years experience on the related field.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the overall definition and management of stage layout.
• Contributing to the coherence of stage interfaces.
• Performing trade-offs to identify best technical solutions to meet mass and cost targets.
• 3D CAD modeling of First Stage and management in SolidWorks PDM.
• Proposing designs for hardware to be integrated on First Stage main structures with attention to constraints (cost, lead time, integration).
• Exchanging with other MaiaSpace team members to understand constraints and needs and reach compromises.
• Contacting and selecting suppliers.
• Following parts manufacturing and accompanying methods with the industrialization team leader.
• Contributing to anomaly treatment.
• Collaborating on mechanical design activities with the team architect.

Skills

Team player

Communication skills

Adaptability

Open-mindedness

Autonomy

Motivation

Rigorous

Synthesis skills

Education

Mechanical engineering degree

Tools

SolidWorks

SolidWorks PDM

Job description

MaiaSpace is a European space tech company, designing, manufacturing and operating competitive and sustainable solutions for space mobility. We are driven by the belief that access to space is a major enabler for a better and more sustainable life on Earth, addressing the challenges faced by humanity: climate, resources, connectivity, and data. Our aim is to successfully design and test a cost-effective and reusable mini-launch vehicle.

First Stage Senior Design Engineer

We are looking for a senior mechanical designer to join our First Stage Team working on stage layout and design of equipment of the First Stage. You will contribute to overall design activities within the First Stage depending on priorities, but in particular you will be in charge of:

Contributing to the overall definition and management of stage layout

Contributing to the coherence of stage interfaces

Performing trade-offs in order to identify best technical solutions to meet mass and cost targets

Contributing to the 3D CAD modelling of First Stage and to the management of the definition in Solidworks PDM

Proposing designs for hardware to be integrated on First Stage main structures: lines, harness, supports for lines & harness, equipment supports, secondary structures (such as covers, raceway, etc.), tank equipment, etc. taking into account the different constraints (technical requirements, cost, performance, lead time of parts to manufacture, integration, …)

Exchanging with other MaiaSpace team members (from First Stage or other teams) in order to understand their constraints and their needs, and reaching best compromise with them as necessary

Contacting and selecting suppliers

Following parts manufacturing and accompanying methods and integration teams, in interaction with the industrialization team leader

Contributing to anomaly treatment

Also, consistently with the Agile way of working, you may be asked to contribute more generally to mechanical design activities of the stage in collaboration with other members of the team, in particular its architect.

Job requirements

Specific competences & abilities:
Team player, high communication skills, adaptability, open-mindedness, autonomy, motivation, dedication, rigorous, synthesis skills

Prior demonstrated experience on mechanical architecture activities of vehicles (automotive, naval construction, aeronautics, space industry)

Prior experience in CAD design with Solidworks

Knowledge on bill-of-material management with Solidworks PDM or equivalent

Knowledge on metallic material properties and manufacturing processes

English level sufficient to read and write technical documentation, to perform oral technical presentation and to interact on technical topics

Qualification:
Mechanical engineering degree (+5 years post-Baccalaureate) ideally specialized in structure design

At least 3 years experience on the related field

Working at MaiaSpace

You will be joining a friendly multi-disciplinary team, comprised of multi-skilled people, following Agile and Scrum methodologies. This means that your role and responsibility may evolve over time with varied assignments and challenges depending on priorities and competences. Your work will be hands-on and in close contact with the final product. We are open-minded, transparent, pragmatic, result oriented and people centric. Teamwork is at the heart of how we work together and our co-workers share the same fundamental values: respect, humility, reactivity and autonomy with a passion for technical excellence. Our newly acquired office space at La Defense is located within the heart of Europe’s largest purpose built business and commercial district with easy access to public transport.
Written and spoken communication is in French and English.