Space Vehicle Mechanical Systems Engineer

4 weeks ago


Palm Bay, Florida, United States L3 Technologies Full time

Job Title:
Lead, Space Vehicle Mechanical Systems Engineer

Job Description:
L3Harris' Space and Airborne Systems is seeking a skilled Space Vehicle Mechanical Systems Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the mechanical integration of the spacecraft bus, mission payload, and communication payload to ensure seamless end-to-end mission performance.

Key Responsibilities:
Manage and maintain the mechanical integration of the spacecraft bus, mission payload, and communications payload according to internal and external ICDs.
Generate and coordinate mechanical design specifications and interface documents, including requirements derivation, allocation, and flow up/down, and V&V activities.
Extract mechanical and environmental requirements from mission-level and CONOPs, and cascade them to the spacecraft bus, mission payload, and communications payload, encompassing allocations into software, firmware, and hardware, as well as test beds and simulators.
Ensure mechanical functional and physical allocations, changes, and requirements compliance are being addressed throughout the SV design.
Coordinate and/or complete mechanical integration activities such as mass properties management, propulsion and mass budgets, critical clearances, structural, thermal, Field of View, slosh, and coupled loads analyses and test, mechanical ground support equipment (MGSE) integration, cable harness routing, and configuration control.

Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or adjacent field.
Active TS/SCI security clearance.
Experience with mechanical integration of spacecraft busses, mission payloads, and communications payloads for seamless end-to-end mission performance.
Experience with leading both internal and external supplier mechanical engineering teams.
Experience with mechanical integration, testing, and troubleshooting of complex systems.

Preferred Additional Skills:
Well-versed in fleshing out or coordinating physical and functional mechanical interface details such as connectors pinouts and cable routing, mounting, seals, docking, dispenser, solar array and deployment mechanisms, payload attach points, thruster locations, and thermal control.
Experienced with mechanical requirements validation, sell-off, milestone entry/exit criteria.
Experienced with mechanical integration planning when there are multiple HW solutions from both internal and external suppliers.
Experience with writing Statement of Works for external and internal suppliers.
Familiarity with mechanical engineering structural and thermal processes.
Familiarity with Digital Engineering and MBSE tools such as CAD, DOORs, CAMEO, CREO, JIRA.
Ability to make risk-based decisions balancing technical, cost, and schedule.
Strong track record of leading integration and test engineering teams through all phases of a space program; pursuits and proposal, design and development, integration and test, and operations.
Experience in mentoring and growing technical staff.
Ability to perform or coordinate Space Vehicle level mechanical analyses and trades such as pinouts, mass and propellant budgets, structural, thermal, vibration and shock, modal, and mass properties analyses and test, sensor sizing, and hardware placement.

Benefits:
L3Harris offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays.



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