Mechanical Engineer (III-Senior), Space Based Interceptors Mass Properties

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 7–15+ years of professional experience in mechanical design and mass properties analysis, with the majority spent on Space Based Interceptors, hypersonic vehicle, or similar high-performance flight system programs.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining mass properties predictions for multiple vehicles across multiple programs simultaneously.
• Experience maintaining mass growth allowance standards for component categories as vehicle and component level design matures.
• Demonstrated expertise in flight vehicle structural design for high-dynamic-pressure, thermally coupled, and high-g flight environments, including experience across multiple interceptor, kill vehicle, or re-entry system programs.
• Extensive hands-on experience with guidance and seeker packaging architecture, including precision optical or RF sensor integration, alignment and retention design, vibration isolation, and EMI management within kill vehicle or interceptor envelopes.
• Expert-level proficiency in NX (Siemens), including complex multi-subsystem vehicle assemblies, configuration management, and part design best practices.
• Expert level understanding of GD&T principles, with proven experience defining custom GD&T Datum and tolerance schemes for part drawings.
• Experience performing tolerance stack ups based on assembly wide tolerances for fitment analysis.
• Strong understanding of first principles, and a first principles approach to problem solving with experience performing preliminary hand calculations for all designed parts.
• Proven track record of rocket, missile, and/or satellite mechanical design and/or mass properties experience from initial design to production.
• Strong familiarity with relevant defense and aerospace standards (e.g., MIL-SPEC, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-1540, AIAA S-110) and their application to design, analysis, and test.
• Experience with configuration management, MES, and PLM tools (e.g., TeamCenter, Windchill).
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to executive, program, and customer audiences.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance (Secret or TS/SCI)

• Master's degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience specifically in interceptor systems, kill vehicles, or hypersonic flight vehicle mechanical design and mass properties analysis, with multiple programs delivered to flight test or operational fielding.
• Experience as a mass properties engineer and/or mechanical design engineer on a Space Based Interceptor or hypersonic program, with ownership of vehicle level mass properties reports and analysis.
• Experience developing and maintaining mass properties tracking and analysis tools for use across multiple programs.
• Deep experience with kill vehicle or hit-to-kill interceptor hardware, including ultra-mass-constrained structures, precision seeker alignment under vibration and thermal loading, and flight-critical deployment or divert mechanism design.
• Experience with hypersonic flight vehicle aeroshell design, including TPS panel integration, structural joint design under aeroheating, and ablative material qualification.
• Background in rocket, missile or satellite mechanical design, with the ability to apply space environment principles — precision mechanisms, electronics packaging, launch load structures — as cross-domain technical leverage on Space Based Interceptors and hypersonic programs.
• Familiarity with structural analysis and FEA methods (e.g., NASTRAN, Ansys) and demonstrated ability to collaborate with and review analysis performed by your assigned analysts.
• Experience supporting business development, proposal writing, and new program captures in missile defense or hypersonic domains, including DARPA, MDA, or Air Force Research Laboratory programs.
• Background working in a startup or high-growth aerospace and defense company, with experience scaling engineering teams and processes under program constraints.
• Active U.S. security clearance (Secret or TS/SCI).

• Base Salary: $110,000-$190,000
• Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience.

• Work Location —Successful candidates will be located near Denver or Colorado Springs. While we observe a hybrid work environment, some work must be done on site.
• Work environment —the work environment; temperature, noise level, inside or outside, or other factors that will affect the person's working conditions while performing the job.
• Physical demands —the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.

This position will be open until it is successfully filled.

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