Electromechanical Engineer, Space Avionics (Equity + PTO)

Astrolab; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Health benefits

401(k) plan with match

Flexible PTO

On-site lunch stipend

Job summary

Astrolab, The Lunar Operations Company, seeks an Electromechanical Engineer with spaceflight hardware delivery experience to own avionics packaging, harness architecture, and thermal integration. You will bridge electrical, mechanical, and systems engineering, taking hardware from concept through flight builds and qualification, reporting to the Director of Avionics.

The role is Hawthorne, CA, and demands rigorous hardware standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field.
• 1+ years designing physical hardware for high‑reliability applications.
• Experience using 3D CAD software such as Siemens NX, Creo, or SolidWorks including mechanical packaging.
• Experience with electrical harnesses, interconnects, wiring, shielding, and grounding for complex hardware systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mechanical and structural design of space-qualified electronics enclosures, ensuring survival under launch random vibration, acoustic loads, and shock environments.
• Select flight-proven materials, surface treatments, and staking compounds while balancing structural stiffness, thermal conductivity, electrical bonding, and outgassing limits.
• Produce flight drawing packages with precise GD&T, fastener torque schedules, and electrical grounding and bonding callouts per spaceflight standards.
• Collaborate closely with thermal analysis teams to verify conductive thermal paths from high-power die and board interfaces to chassis conduction decks and radiator interfaces in vacuum.
• Integrate passive and active thermal control hardware, including heat pipes, thermal straps, thermal interface materials, operational and survival heater circuits, RTDs, thermistors, and multi‑layer insulation (MLI) blankets.
• Architect static and articulated or dynamic harness installations, including cable wrap mechanisms, service loops, twist capsules, and flex or rigid‑flex jumper assemblies.
• Design custom brackets, harness support trays, strain relief features, and breakout bulkheads optimized for mass, mass‑elastic constraints, and design for manufacturability (DFM).
• Present and defend mechanical packaging, harness routing schemes, and thermal hardware implementations at milestone reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR, MRR).

Skills

Mechanical design

Electrical harnesses

Systems engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

Tools

Siemens NX

Creo

SolidWorks

Capital Harness

Zuken E3

NX Electrical Routing

Job description

Astrolab, The Lunar Operations Company, seeks an Electromechanical Engineer with spaceflight hardware delivery experience to own avionics packaging, harness architecture, and thermal integration. You will bridge electrical, mechanical, and systems engineering, taking hardware from concept through flight builds and qualification, reporting to the Director of Avionics.

The role is Hawthorne, CA, and demands rigorous hardware standards.