Senior Space Mechanisms Engineer – Deployables & Actuators

World Aquatics; Ivry-sur-Seine; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Competitive compensation

Access to cutting-edge facilities

International team

Job summary

Gama, a NewSpace startup based in Ivry-sur-Seine near Paris, seeks a Senior Mechanisms Engineer who will own deployment mechanisms for ultra-light structures from concept to production. You will lead kinematics analyses, develop gear trains and actuators, and work hands-on with hardware for prototype and production testing.

You will contribute to robust, flight-proven designs for high-consequence environments while mentoring juniors and collaborating with an international team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing mechanisms that move — deployables, gear trains, actuators or precision linkages — in aerospace, automotive, robotics, or a similarly demanding industry.
• Multiple full development cycles: taken a mechanism from blank sheet to a flying/fielded product more than once.
• Deep expertise in gear trains, spring-driven or motor-driven deployment systems, latching/release devices, or precision kinematic mechanisms.
• Fluency with CAD (e.g. CATIA, Siemens NX) and motion/kinematic simulation tools; comfort with hand calculations to sanity-check results.
• Strong analytical skills, a proactive attitude, excellent interpersonal skills and unbounded curiosity.
• Autonomy, and a willingness to be fully responsible for a significant part of the finished product.
• A proven track record of delivering reliable mechanisms for harsh or high-consequence environments.
• A willingness to mentor juniors and provide technical leadership for mechanism design.
• Professional level English — further languages welcome

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and qualify deployment mechanisms, hinges, latches, gear trains and actuators for extremely lightweight deployable structures
• Own kinematics, load path, friction, backlash and tolerance-stack analyses across the mechanism life cycle, from concept to detailed design and test
• Get hands‑on with hardware for prototype assembly, mechanism testing (deployment, cycling, vacuum, thermal), and production line development
• Build robust, flight‑proven mechanisms that meet aggressive mass and reliability targets under launch loads and orbital environments
• Define and execute integration, verification and validation strategies for mechanism‑level and system‑level testing
• Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical reference for mechanism design practices

Skills

Mechanism design

Aerospace experience

CAD CATIA NX

Kinematic analysis

Mentorship

Tools

CATIA

Siemens NX

Motion simulation tools

Job description

Gama, a NewSpace startup based in Ivry-sur-Seine near Paris, seeks a Senior Mechanisms Engineer who will own deployment mechanisms for ultra-light structures from concept to production. You will lead kinematics analyses, develop gear trains and actuators, and work hands-on with hardware for prototype and production testing.

You will contribute to robust, flight-proven designs for high-consequence environments while mentoring juniors and collaborating with an international team.