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Mechanical Engineer

Reflect OrbitalHawthorne, CA

$90K – $200KEngineeringFull time4+ yrs
Source-verified: read directly from this employer's own ashby job board, not a repost.On-sitePosted (20 months ago)Last verified (today)

At a glance

Location
Hawthorne, CA
Workplace
On-site
Pay
$90K – $200K
Employment type
Full time
Experience
4+ years
Education
No degree requirement stated
Job family
Engineering
Seniority
Not stated
Posted by employer
7 February 2025
Last verified open
23 October 2026
Region and country
CA, US
Team
Engineering
Listed via
Ashby

What the employer wrote

At Reflect, you will be expected to move fast, have a lot of ownership and, most importantly, be able to effect change. If this excites you, we are interested in hearing about your best work and accomplishments across any domain and from any points in your life.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for quickly designing, prototyping, and flight validating spacecraft subcomponents and integrating mechanical systems on tight deadlines. Your highest priority is delivering functional hardware that strikes a balance between simplicity, scrappiness, analytical rigor and ingenuity.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Deliver flight-ready critical spacecraft components

- Take hardware and mechanisms from conceptual design through qualification to on-orbit operations

- Correlate analysis of your components to ensure reliability in the space environment

IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS

- You bring roughly 4–6 years of mechanical design experience, ideally on flight hardware or similar high-reliability mechanical systems.

- You have owned spacecraft components from clean-sheet to spaceflight

- Extensive CAD experience

- You can teach a class on the design of bolted joints

- You know what tolerances the machine shop can hit without needing to ask them

- You have strong experience collaboratively designing complex interdependent systems

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you. Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.

We are also interested in carving out unique roles for unconventional people that we are excited about working with.

BENEFITS

Reflect Orbital’s success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we’re able.

- Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy

- Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K

- Unlimited paid time off

- Healthy lunches provided daily

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Reflect Orbital is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Reflect Orbital is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

More about Reflect Orbital:

Learn more about our team here. https://www.reflectorbital.com/team

Where this record came from

Read from Reflect Orbital's own Ashby job board on , and last confirmed still open on . The employer published it on 7 February 2025. Jobsearch.ing did not write, edit or rank this posting, and does not vet the employer. View the original posting.

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