- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- AlbuquerqueNew MexicoUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Jul 22, 2026
- Salary
- $111,500–$170,000 a year
Full-time
Sr. Mechanical Engineer - Space Technologies
Job description
AV provides a full suite of exquisite, space-qualified hardware trusted to fly in the most extreme environments space presents across GEO, MEO, LEO and Cislunar orbits. With hundreds of systems flying in space, our customers turn to AV when a mission can't fail. Our team is expanding to do the big things that have never been done before - the things the nation and the world are counting on us to deliver.
AV isn’t for everyone. We hire the curious, the relentless, the mission-obsessed. The best of the best.
We don’t just build defense technology—we redefine what’s possible. As the premier autonomous systems company in the U.S., AV delivers breakthrough capabilities across air, land, sea,…
Job responsibilities
- Provide engineering design and analysis leadership to diverse R&D programs and small-volume production contracts
- Lead the structural and thermal analysis of mechanical systems for space and airborne hardware
- Work within a multi-disciplined project team
- Responsible for mechanical design and analysis activity, and support integration and formal acceptance-test activities
- Projects vary from packaging high reliability electronics subsystems to opto-mechanical mechanism design such as gimbal and steering mirror systems
- Other duties as assigned
- Structural and thermal analysis including analytical calculations and FEA (stress analysis, modal analysis, thermal conduction analysis, bolt loads, etc.)
- Design using CAD software, ideally experience with SolidWorks