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💼 About This Role

You'll develop electromechanical flight hardware for space missions on Varda's Payload team, owning designs from concept through recovery. You'll drive multi-payload missions across pharmaceutical manufacturing and hypersonic reentry testbed programs. This role offers the chance to deliver flight hardware on rapid timelines with hands-on integration and testing.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Own multi-payload missions from concept through design, integration, launch, reentry, and recovery
• Lead design of mechanisms, structures, thermal/fluid interfaces, and electromechanical assemblies
• Independently perform structural, thermal, and fluid analyses
• Build, instrument, and test prototypes and flight hardware

📋 Requirements

• BS/BEng in Mechanical, Aerospace, Mechatronics, or related field
• 4+ years of experience designing, integrating, testing, and troubleshooting electromechanical hardware
• Strong mechanical expertise with breadth in at least one adjacent discipline
• Experience delivering hardware into rigorous environments (aerospace, defense, medical, automotive, etc.)

✨ Nice to Have

• Prior full cycle ownership of space flight hardware
• Experience integrating electromechanical actuators, sensors, thermal control hardware and/or fluid control hardware
• Experience planning and executing aerospace environmental testing (vibration, TVAC, EMI/EMC)

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🚀 Equity in a fully funded space startup
• 💰 401(k) matching
• 🏖️ Unlimited PTO
• 🏥 Health insurance including Vision and Dental
• 🍽️ Lunch and snacks provided on site every day

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Technical Interview· 60 min
3. 3Hiring Manager· 45 min