🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll own payload hardware from concept through design, integration, launch, reentry, and recovery for Varda's in-space pharmaceutical manufacturing and hypersonic reentry testbed missions. You'll collaborate across disciplines and perform hands-on integration and testing to deliver flight hardware in months. This role offers the chance to grow your breadth across thermal, fluids, avionics, and software while shipping real hardware to space and back.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Design mechanisms, structures, thermal/fluid interfaces, and electromechanical assemblies
• Run structural, thermal, and fluid analyses using hand calcs and FEA
• Build, instrument, and test prototypes and flight hardware
• Serve as primary technical point of contact for assigned payloads

📋 Requirements

• BS/BEng in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related engineering discipline
• Strong fundamentals in structures, heat transfer, fluids, and dynamics
• Hands-on experience designing, integrating, testing, and troubleshooting electromechanical hardware
• Ability to communicate effectively across disciplines

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience integrating electromechanical actuators, sensors, or thermal/fluid control hardware
• Experience using CAD (preferably NX) and FEA (Ansys, Nastran)
• Exposure to aerospace environmental testing (vibration, TVAC, EMI/EMC)
• Customer-facing technical communication experience

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 📈 Equity in a fully funded space startup with growth potential
• 🏖️ Unlimited PTO
• 💊 Health insurance including Vision and Dental
• 🍽️ Lunch and snacks provided on site daily, dinners twice a week
• 👶 Maternity/Paternity leave

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter phone screen· 30 min
2. 2Technical interview· 60 min
3. 3On-site interviews· 240 min