Avionics Mechanical Engineer I — Spaceflight Hardware, Hands-On

Inversion; California (MO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Inversion is seeking an Avionics Mechanical Engineer to design, build, and test mechanical hardware for avionics systems on spaceflight vehicles. You will develop secondary structures and packaging for flight computers, power systems, radios, and sensors, with hands-on CAD, drawing, and test responsibilities.

You will collaborate with electrical, avionics, production, and vehicle-integration engineers to ensure hardware meets mass, thermal, and manufacturability requirements for flight-ready

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent technical experience.
• Typically 1+ years of internship, academic research, or professional experience developing hardware for aerospace, defense, or similarly demanding applications.
• Hands-on experience building, assembling, testing, or troubleshooting mechanical or electromechanical hardware.

Responsibilities

• Design avionics enclosures, mounting brackets, trays, panels, sensor mounts, cable-routing features, and other secondary structures.
• Support packaging and installation of flight computers, power-distribution hardware, batteries, radios, navigation sensors, cameras, remote I/O, and associated harnessing.
• Produce engineering drawings, CAD models, BOMs, assembly instructions, and other release documentation.
• Design for mass, stiffness, thermal performance, vibration, shock, access, manufacturability, serviceability, and vehicle interfaces.
• Work with electrical engineers to define mechanical interfaces for connectors, harness routing, grounding, thermal paths, sensor placement, and board-level packaging.
• Support fabrication, machining, inspection, assembly, and integration of avionics hardware.
• Participate in fit checks, bench tests, vibration tests, thermal tests, and other environmental test activities.
• Coordinate with Production early to ensure designs are manufacturable, inspectable, and support the required build schedule.
• Support vehicle integration by maintaining clean interface definitions and resolving mechanical integration issues.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field

Tools

NX

CATIA

SolidWorks

Creo

Job description

Inversion is seeking an Avionics Mechanical Engineer to design, build, and test mechanical hardware for avionics systems on spaceflight vehicles. You will develop secondary structures and packaging for flight computers, power systems, radios, and sensors, with hands-on CAD, drawing, and test responsibilities.

You will collaborate with electrical, avionics, production, and vehicle-integration engineers to ensure hardware meets mass, thermal, and manufacturability requirements for flight-ready