Space Mechanical & Thermal Systems Manager

ICEYE US; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible PTO

Friendly work environment

Extra perks

Job summary

ICEYE US is seeking a Manager, Mechanical & Thermal Systems to lead the engineered team responsible for mechanical structures, deployables, and thermal control in space hardware. The role owns the life cycle from architecture to flight acceptance and interfaces across RF, avionics, and AIT teams.

You will oversee environmental tests, ensure design compliance with thermal and mechanical requirements, and drive manufacturability and build processes for scalable space vehicles.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in mechanical design for space-rated hardware.
• 2+ years of direct engineering management or technical lead experience.
• Proficiency in CAD tools (SolidWorks, Creo, CATIA, or similar).
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of mechanical and thermal engineers; own hiring, onboarding, performance development, and technical career growth for direct reports.
• Accountable for design and analysis of mechanical structures, mechanisms, and deployables for space hardware, with a focus on adapting existing designs for space vehicle integration.
• Own the structures and mechanisms engineering lifecycle, including requirements decomposition, interface definition, and verification and validation closure.
• Ensure mechanical and structural designs meet all thermal, vibration, acoustic, and load requirements across the full environmental envelope.
• Collaborate with cross-functional subsystem teams — RF, thermal, avionics, and AIT — to satisfy mass, volume, structural margin, and manufacturability constraints.
• Lead environmental test planning and execution for the flight article, including thermal vacuum (TVAC), vibration, shock, and deployment testing; own test data review and disposition.
• Define and optimize manufacturing and assembly processes to support producibility, scaling across bus implementations, and schedule-driven build milestones.

Job description

ICEYE US is seeking a Manager, Mechanical & Thermal Systems to lead the engineered team responsible for mechanical structures, deployables, and thermal control in space hardware. The role owns the life cycle from architecture to flight acceptance and interfaces across RF, avionics, and AIT teams.

You will oversee environmental tests, ensure design compliance with thermal and mechanical requirements, and drive manufacturability and build processes for scalable space vehicles.