Electromechanical Engineer (All-Levels) (Aerospace)

Location: Hybrid role in Hawthorne, California, United States

Salary: $100,000–$230,000 per year

Company

Astrolab designs and builds lunar rovers, power systems, and data networks for sustained operations on the Moon.

What you will do

• Lead the mechanical and structural design of space-qualified electronics enclosures for launch vibration, acoustic, and shock environments.
• Select materials, surface treatments, staking compounds, fasteners, and bonding approaches while balancing stiffness, conductivity, grounding, and outgassing constraints.
• Produce flight drawing packages with GD&T, torque schedules, and electrical grounding and bonding callouts.
• Integrate conductive thermal paths, heat pipes, thermal straps, interface materials, heaters, sensors, and MLI for vacuum operation.
• Architect static and dynamic harness installations, including cable wraps, service loops, twist capsules, flex assemblies, brackets, trays, strain reliefs, and bulkheads.
• Present packaging, harness-routing, and thermal designs at PDR, CDR, TRR, and MRR milestones, taking hardware through qualification, vehicle integration, and flight operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM-related field.
• At least 1 year of experience designing and developing physical hardware for high-reliability applications.
• Experience with 3D CAD tools such as Siemens NX, Creo, or SolidWorks, including mechanical packaging, sheet metal, and machined enclosures.
• Experience with electrical harnesses, interconnects, wire routing, shielding, and grounding for complex hardware systems.
• Experience with spaceflight hardware, thermal management, vacuum environments, or aerospace systems is valuable.

Nice to have

• Experience with Capital Harness, Zuken E3, or NX Electrical Routing.
• Experience with rigid-flex PCB layouts, continuous-flex interconnects, or moving mechanisms.
• Knowledge of IPC/WHMA-A-620 Space Addendum and NASA-STD-8739.4.
• Experience with MLI, bonding and grounding verification, or vehicle harness bundles.
• Master’s degree in a STEM-related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, direct, transparent, and collaborative engineering environment.
• Equity ownership in the company.
• Medical, dental, vision, and mental health benefits.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Flexible PTO, parental leave, lunch stipend, and on-site refreshments.

Hiring process

• Application review and recruiter phone interview.
• Video interviews followed by an on-site interview.
• Offer and hiring decision.