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About the role
Your product will land on the Moon next year.
You’ll design, build, and test our 2027 Lunar Payload: the one that manufactures humanity’s first bricks on the Moon and deploys an inflatable habitat bladder. This is hands-on, full-lifecycle hardware engineering at a pace most aerospace companies can’t keep up with.
What you’ll do
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Own the mechanical design of the payload from concept through flight hardware.
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Rapidly prototype, test, break things, and iterate.
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Manage ICD with the lunar lander provider and be the primary point of contact.
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Run and interpret structural/mechanism analysis to support design trades.
What we’re looking for
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Deep fluency with CAD and FEA tools: you think in 3D and can back it up with analysis.
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Experience designing spaceflight hardware end-to-end (build, test, deploy).
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Comfort with mechanisms: actuators, seals, deployables, pressure systems, end effectors, and more.
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You’re using the latest AI tools every day (i.e., Opus 4.6/GPT 5.4, in appropriate harness) to massively increase your output and do things you otherwise couldn’t.
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You’ve built flight hardware before.
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If you want to maximize the probability that humanity becomes interplanetary in your lifetime, apply and share a portfolio of the technical work you’re most proud of.
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