Manager, Mechanical Design, Propulsion Engineering, Project Kuiper
Location
Redmond, WA
Level
Manager / Director
Department
Consumer Electronics
Type
Salary
$135,000 - $235,000
Job Description
Posted on:
2025-07-04
Responsibilities
- Direct mechanical design and integration of spacecraft propulsion systems, including CAD design and preliminary thermal/structural analyses.
- Manage Propulsion design change requests and execution according to a Propulsion design roadmap.
- Coordinate with manufacture and test teams to prioritize and execute development, qualification test programs, and production verification activities for design changes.
- Lead manufacturing support activities such as non-conformance investigations and strategic efforts to deliver a design supporting ambitious production rate targets.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions for technical issues.
- Coordinate with Propulsion teams on test & manufacturing fixture design.
- Communicate to Project Kuiper change control boards to justify significant design changes and recommend solutions to complex technical problems.
Job Requirements
- 3+ years experience managing engineering teams developing spacecraft flight hardware.
- Bachelor degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Physics or a related field.
- 5+ years experience with spacecraft electric propulsion (preferred).
- 3+ years experience with Hall Effect thrusters (preferred).
- Experience maintaining a design in a production environment.
- Advanced degree (M.Sc., Ph.D.) in a related field (preferred).
- Experience delivering designs that are qualified to SMC-S-016 (preferred).
