- Robot type
- Marine and Space
- Location
- Los AngelesCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 6, 2026
- Salary
- $155,000–$200,000 a year
Full-time
Senior Mechanical Engineer, Interceptor
Job description
Lead the mechanical development of interceptor hardware from early architecture through prototype manufacturing, integration, field testing, and redesign.
You will own complex mechanical systems across vehicle structures, propulsion interfaces, avionics packaging, internal mechanisms, test hardware, and ground-support equipment. You will make critical design decisions, resolve cross-functional problems, and help the broader engineering team move faster through strong technical judgment and direct hands-on execution. This is a senior individual-contributor role.
Job requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least five years of professional experience in rocketry, missiles, launch vehicles, propulsion, or a closely related aerospace field.
- Demonstrated ownership of rocket or missile hardware from design through manufacturing, assembly, and test.
- Strong mechanical design capability, including 3D CAD, production drawings, GD&T, tolerance analysis, material selection, fastening methods, and design for manufacturing and assembly.
- Strong practical understanding of structural mechanics, load paths, vibration, shock, thermal effects, and the calculations required to support and review mechanical designs.
- Experience leading complex hardware development or serving as a technical lead, including reviewing designs and guiding less-experienced engineers.
- Experience working directly with machinists, technicians, fabrication suppliers, and test teams to solve real hardware problems.
- Ability to investigate failures, make sound decisions with incomplete data, and rapidly convert findings into improved hardware.