Principal Engineer

Salary Range: 156000 to 194000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Responsibilities:

• Understand the voice of the customer and continually inject that vision into the product development effort.
• Develop conceptual designs and work plans for new product development, including estimation of resources required.
• Perform top-level architectural design and preliminary analysis/sizing of spaceflight electromechanical hardware.
• Act as the primary interface between mechanical and electrical engineering teams
• Analyze and define product functional requirements.
• Analyze and define subsystem requirements, including mechanical, electronic, embedded systems and software, etc.
• Own product functional and validation requirements
• Perform hazards and risk analysis and develop mitigation strategies.
• Apply engineering principles to and directly participate in the design, fabrication, assembly, and test of various mechatronic systems.
• Generate and review fabrication, test, and quality assurance documentation and vendor specifications.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of post-grad experience developing custom mechatronic products
• Experience with rapid prototyping methods, including hardware & software for fast proof-of-concept development
• Experience writing and maintaining design and test quality assurance documentation
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with all phases of development, including requirements analysis, prototype design, product design, assembly, debugging, and testing
• Expert in CAD (e.g., Solidworks or equivalent)
• Excellent intra-team and client-facing collaboration and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of product development team leadership experience
• Previous aerospace industry experience

Compensation and Benefits:

• Employee Benefits include medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and short and long-term disability.
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and a 4.5% company match (100% on the first 3% and 50% on the next 3%)
• Education Reimbursement for certificate, undergraduate, and graduate programs
• Paid Time Off includes 4 weeks per year, paid parental leave, two floating, and 11 company holidays.