Mechanical Engineer

GITAI is a space robotics company working to reduce the cost of work in space by 100x.

Space is no longer defined only by the cost of launch. Satellites, space stations, lunar infrastructure, and defense systems are becoming more capable and more ambitious. But getting hardware to space is only the first step. The harder problem is doing useful work once it is there.

GITAI develops robotic systems for orbital, lunar, and defense applications. Our robots are designed for tasks such as assembly, inspection, maintenance, construction, and surface operations in environments where human labor is expensive, dangerous, or impractical. To move fast and drive cost down, we keep hardware, software, testing, and integration close together. This allows our team to learn from real tests, shorten development cycles, and reduce dependency on slow external handoffs.

We are still early. The systems, the company, and the market are all being built at the same time. If you are the kind of person who finds energy in hard problems and wants to build through difficult challenges before the path is fully clear, GITAI may be the right place for you.

• Create detailed 3D CAD models, assemblies, drawings, and mechanical design packages that are practical to fabricate, assemble, inspect, test, and maintain.
• Work closely with electrical, software, propulsion, robotics, and systems engineers to define requirements, interfaces, load paths, packaging, assembly sequences, and test configurations.
• Move quickly from ambiguous requirements to workable mechanical concepts, then refine them into detailed designs ready for prototype fabrication or flight-like builds.
• Support vendor and in-house fabrication by reviewing manufacturability, resolving build issues, updating drawings, and maintaining clean mechanical documentation.
• Assemble, integrate, inspect, and maintain prototypes and early builds, and feed lessons from the shop floor and test floor back into the design.
• Plan and execute mechanical and system-level testing, including operational verification, reliability testing, quality checks, and failure investigation, and use results to drive design improvements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
• 1+ years of relevant experience designing, analyzing, and supporting the manufacturing of electro-mechanical systems or mechanisms. Internship, research, and extracurricular project experience counts.
• Proficiency with mechanical CAD.
• Experience creating mechanical drawings and maintaining drawing packages.
• Hands-on ability with mechanical assembly, integration, and testing.
• Must be able to safely lift and move items up to 40 pounds (with or without reasonable accommodation), including during assembly and test activities.
• Flexibility to work weekends as needed based on build and test schedules.
• Willingness to spend up to 50% of work time outside of Torrance at test sites (including Mojave and the greater Los Angeles area). Travel may increase for short periods during critical integration and test campaigns.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, as this role may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance in the future.