Senior Space Mechanisms Engineer: Deployables & HDRMs

Cowboy Space Corporation; Kent (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

10 holidays per year

Paid parental leave

Relocation assistance

Office lunch

Job summary

Cowboy Space Corporation is seeking a Mechanisms Engineer to own a critical spacecraft mechanism subsystem from concept through flight. You will work on HDRMs, solar array deployment, deployables, and thermal/radiator articulation mechanisms, collaborating with structures, thermal, power, and avionics teams.

You'll move quickly, iterate often, and take full ownership of mechanisms that impact mission success, with a hands-on role on the factory floor and in testing environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years designing mechanisms or mechanical systems for spacecraft, launch vehicles, or high-performance hardware.
• Experience taking hardware from concept through build, integration, and test.
• Strong fundamentals in structural mechanics, kinematics, materials, and manufacturing processes.
• Proficiency with CAD and creating engineering drawings to ASME Y14.5 GD&T standards.
• Proficiency with FEA tools for mechanism load-path and dynamic problems.
• U.S. citizenship or eligible for U.S. work authorization.

Responsibilities

• Own your mechanism subsystem from concept through design, analysis, test, and flight.
• Drive structural and kinematic design for minimum mass while meeting strength, stiffness, fatigue, and life requirements across launch and on-orbit deployment.
• Balance performance, manufacturability, cost, and schedule in every design decision.
• Perform analysis — hand calculations, FEA, tolerance stack-ups, deployment dynamics — and validate predictions with test and on-orbit data.
• Define and execute qualification and acceptance test campaigns; author procedures, acceptance criteria, and anomaly dispositions.
• Develop and maintain engineering drawings, models, and release documentation.
• Work directly on the factory floor with manufacturing and integration & test teams to iterate quickly and resolve build issues in real time.
• Troubleshoot hardware anomalies, perform root cause analysis, and implement design improvements.
• Support spacecraft integration & test, launch site operations, and on-orbit commissioning/anomaly response.

Skills

CAD proficiency

FEA analysis

Structural mechanics

Kinematics understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Tools

NX

SolidWorks

CATIA

Creo

ANSYS/Nastran/Abaqus

Job description

Cowboy Space Corporation is seeking a Mechanisms Engineer to own a critical spacecraft mechanism subsystem from concept through flight. You will work on HDRMs, solar array deployment, deployables, and thermal/radiator articulation mechanisms, collaborating with structures, thermal, power, and avionics teams.

You'll move quickly, iterate often, and take full ownership of mechanisms that impact mission success, with a hands-on role on the factory floor and in testing environments.