Details: Job Title: Sr Mechanical Design Engineer Location: Redmond, WA Start Date: Right Away Keywords: #RedmondJobs; #MechanicalEngineerJobs; Compensation: This position is offering a hourly rate range from $76 - $78 an hour. Job Description: Sr Mechanical Design Engineer Manufacturing systems engineering Org under Kuiper prod-ops is responsible for delivering test software, test hardware and test frameworks that improve speed and quality of testing of satellite components. We partner with engineering and production teams to bring reliability and repeatability to our test systems, improve throughput and accelerate the transition. The Senior Mechanical Engineer will have a background in space based and ground based mechanical design and analysis including electro-mechanical systems integration. The ideal candidate has experience making major optimization trades for payloads and system architectures. This is a hands-on role for a highly collaborative individual that combines superb technical and analytical capabilities to convert analytic trade studies to a space qualified payload, while meeting cross discipline requirements. The candidate will have a sharp focus on the specific needs of the customer and be able to conduct or direct the thermal and structural analyses to show that proposed solutions will meet the customer"s goals. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, creativity, and practical knowledge of manufacturing processes. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience working on complex programs with a diverse set of talented individuals, as well as with partner organizations. The candidate will exhibit the potential to lead small sub-teams of mechanical engineers, and be able to prepare easy-to-read and technically compelling written reports. This role is crucial in ensuring that products can withstand and function properly in diverse environmental situations. This role combines technical expertise in hardware engineering with project management and cross-functional collaboration to ensure the successful deployment and execution of test programs. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Key job responsibilities - Working with an interdisciplinary team to execute mechanical product designs from concept to production including specification, design, prototyping, validation and testing, using CAD Software - Working with the Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Quality organizations as well as vendors to ensure a smooth product launch and sustaining - Perform mechanical design and layout trade studies for satellite payloads or structures, ground based communication equipment, and test support hardware contributing to overall system architecture including inputs and requirements from cross discipline teams - Electrical, RF, Optical, Thermal, Dynamics, Mechanisms, Materials, Manufacturing, Assembly, and Test - Create detailed 2D and 3D models and technical drawings - Utilize CAM software to program and optimize manufacturing processes - Conduct design analysis and simulations to validate product performance - Facilitate cost trades on multiple parallel configurations for cost/manufacturability vs design uncertainty - Generate detailed designs via CAD systems and engineering drawings with appropriate geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) - Deliver well-written documentation, reports, and presentations for technical design reviews and as part of proposal efforts - Design and support test campaigns, both development and qualification/acceptance, for space hardware. - Interact directly with customers to understand technical requirements, and translate them into technically robust solutions back