What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Mechanical Engineer position at Busek?
Senior Mechanical Engineer – Busek Co. Inc.
Role Overview
As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will support our Electrothermal Engineering team in a mixed design and production environment, delivering premier space flight projects. This role allows you to create and manage flight-critical hardware designs from initial concept to production. You will work in a highly collaborative team while also providing innovative solutions for advancing space technologies. Candidates should have prior experience in a complex manufacturing environment and a passion for cutting-edge space exploration.
About Busek Co. Inc.
Busek researches, develops, and produces technologies for challenging space missions, ranging from small spacecraft in low-earth orbit to CubeSats and probes exploring the moon and beyond. Our talented staff specialize in in-space propulsion, space-borne sensors, materials science, and high-fidelity electronic design. Busek's achievements include the first US Hall Effect Thruster in space, the first Micro-PPT Thrusters, and the first flight Electrospray Thrusters. We deliver both high-volume and custom, low-volume production for in-space propulsion components and systems, alongside pioneering novel technologies.
Responsibilities
- Design flight-critical hardware for space propulsion systems.
- Present and defend design choices and trade-offs to meet mission and project requirements.
- Perform thermal modeling and analysis to ensure optimal system performance under extreme conditions.
- Collaborate with engineers, researchers, and manufacturers across multidisciplinary teams.
- Communicate with outside vendors for part fabrication and procurement.
- Create high-quality engineering drawings and documentation to support production and testing.
- Ensure designs comply with industry standards, project requirements, and reliability objectives.
- Produce and maintain essential documentation for spaceflight hardware.
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
- Hands-on experience in fabrication, assembly, or testing of mechanical systems.
- Proficiency with SolidWorks and SolidWorks PDM (or similar revision control systems).
- Strong working knowledge of ASME Y14.5 and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
- Experience in aerospace manufacturing processes such as precision welding, brazing, plating, heat treating, or finishing.
- Background in thermal modeling and simulation.
- FEA experience, preferably with ANSYS Mechanical.
- Familiarity with MATLAB for data analysis and simulation.
Additional Information
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen (ITAR compliance).
- This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking space technologies and participate in exciting, innovative projects.