Senior Mechanical Engineer for Lunar Mobility & Space Systems

Cosmochute; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity participation

Growth potential

Job summary

CosmoChute is seeking a hands-on Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our core engineering team. You’ll own the mechanical development lifecycle—from concept to test—for lunar rover and surface systems, tackling end-to-end problems and rapid prototyping.

You will work across subsystems with systems, electronics, and software teams, delivering space-grade CAD models, drawings, and design decisions, while contributing to mission-level trade studies and verification campaigns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical, Aerospace, Robotics or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in the same domain.
• Strong CAD skills (SolidWorks, CATIA).
• Understanding of mechanisms, structures, materials, tolerances and manufacturing processes.
• Experience with prototyping and hardware development.
• GD&T per ASME Y14.5 standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop mechanical systems and assemblies for lunar robotics.
• Collaborate with systems, electronics, and software engineers in integrated teams.
• Maintain CAD models and drawings to space-grade standards.
• Contribute to mission-level trade studies and system design decisions.
• Run or oversee structural, vibration, and thermal analysis and drive design decisions.
• Interface with vendors, fabricators, and test facilities.
• Contribute to design reviews and technical documentation.

Skills

CAD design

Mechanisms

Structures

GD&T

Independent work

Education

Bachelor/Master Mechanical

Aerospace/Robotics

Tools

SolidWorks

CATIA

ANSYS/Simulation

Job description

• Profound mutual respect among co-workers

About Us

At CosmoChute, we are building modular, reusable lunar robotics infrastructure for long-duration planetary operations. Our systems combine mobility, modular payload deployment, survivability through lunar nights, and repairability to make sustained presence on the Moon economically viable. We’re a deeply technical, fast-moving team that believes in real ownership, real trust and in creating an environment where your best work matters.

Your Role

We're looking for a hands-on Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our core engineering team. You'll work across the full mechanical development lifecycle, from concept and design through analysis, fabrication, integration, and test, on our lunar rover and surface systems. This is a generalist role where you'll be expected to own problems end-to-end, context-switch across subsystems, and make good engineering decisions rapidly. You will contribute to systems such as:

• Modular lunar rover platform
• Payload deployment and transport systems
• Bogie and wheel systems for extreme terrain
• Structural assemblies and thermal-mechanical interfaces
• Dust mitigation and survivability mechanisms
• Repairable and modular robotic architectures

This role is best suited for someone who enjoys building from first principles, prototyping rapidly, and solving unconventional engineering problems under real constraints.

Your Responsibilities

Design and develop mechanical systems, assemblies, mechanisms, harness routing designs, and thermal interfaces for lunar robotics

• Collaborate closely with systems, electronics, and software engineers in integrated teams
• Develop and maintain CAD models and engineering drawings to space-grade standards
• Contribute to mission-level trade studies and system-level design decisions
• Run or oversee structural, vibration, and thermal analysis and interpret results to drive design decisions
• Interface with external vendors, fabricators, and test facilities
• Contribute to design reviews and technical documentation
• Support integration, assembly, and test campaigns

Requirements

Must have

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Mechanical engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, or related field.
• Experience of 5+ years in the same domain.
• Strong CAD skills (SolidWorks, CATIA, or similar)
• Understanding of mechanisms, structures, materials, and manufacturing processes
• Experience with prototyping and hardware development
• Familiarity with tolerance stack-up, fasteners, bearings, gear systems, and actuator integration and GD&T in compliance with ASME Y14.5 standards.
• Ability to work independently in fast-moving development environments
• Strong problem-solving mindset and engineering intuition

Good to have

• Experience with robotics, rovers, drones, automotive, aerospace, formula racing or mobility systems
• Knowledge of FEA and simulation tools (ANSYS, SolidWorks Simulation, etc.)
• Exposure to thermal systems or vacuum-environment design
• Experience with composites, lightweight structures, or space-grade materials
• Familiarity with environmental testing and reliability engineering
• Experience in working with either of, ECSS, ISO, NASA, GEVS or similar standards for design, development and/or verification

What we deeply value

• Curiosity and ownership
• Ability to learn quickly across disciplines
• Practical engineering judgment and first principles thinking
• Profound mutual respect among co-workers
• Willingness to prototype, fail, iterate, and improve

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity participation
• Meaningful long-term growth potential
• Complete honesty with only legally required abstractions

What we offer

• Competitive compensation
• Equity participation
• Meaningful long-term growth potential
• Complete honesty with only legally required abstractions