Jobs at Starpath

Design, analyze, fabricate, integrate, and test mechanical systems for a lunar rover. Responsibilities include developing components and assemblies, conducting trade studies and calculations, creating CAD models and drawings, supporting suppliers and prototype builds, executing verification and environmental tests, and collaborating across mechanical, electrical, thermal, and software disciplines.

Develop and integrate fabrication processes and equipment for photovoltaic cells and ultra-thin solar blankets. Transfer recipes to laboratory equipment, establish process controls, design experiments, troubleshoot material-process-equipment interactions, qualify equipment, document procedures, and improve repeatability, yield, and performance. Collaborate with R&D, vendors, test, reliability, integration, and manufacturing teams to transfer validated processes into pilot and production builds.

Manage the full recruiting lifecycle, including sourcing, candidate communication, interviews, offers, and onboarding handoffs. Partner with leadership and hiring managers on hiring plans, role scoping, compensation benchmarking, and pipeline efficiency. Improve recruiting systems and processes, manage agency relationships and recruiting spend, operate the employee referral program, and report on recruiting metrics. The role focuses on technical hiring across engineering and deep-tech teams.

Own the architecture, design, analysis, testing, qualification, and production transition of spacecraft rotary actuators and deployment mechanisms for solar arrays. Responsibilities include drivetrain sizing, structural and thermal analysis, tribology and lubrication strategy, qualification testing, design reviews, failure investigations, supplier and manufacturing collaboration, and mentoring engineers. The role requires integrating motors, gearheads, bearings, sensors, and control systems for reliable operation in vacuum, thermal-cycling, launch, and mission environments.

Own and maintain the rover's embedded Linux platform: kernel, drivers, BSP, device tree, pin muxing, and boot chain. Implement interface software for CAN, RS-485, USB, CSI, and Ethernet devices. Own OTA updates and design fault detection/recovery systems. Collaborate with autonomy, control, and electrical engineers to deliver reliable, flight-ready platform software.

The role involves developing and testing software for lunar rover localization, requiring expertise in non-GPS techniques and working with real robots.

Early-career engineers (interns and recent-graduate associates) own scoped hardware or process projects across mechanical, electrical, software, materials, chemistry, manufacturing, and test. Responsibilities include design, analysis, fabrication, testing, manufacturing improvements, participating in design reviews, and presenting work under senior engineering mentorship.

Lead design, analysis, qualification, and testing of mechanical systems for a lunar/martian rover. Own architectures, perform trade studies, define requirements, validate subsystems in simulated launch/Lunar environments, and integrate cross-functionally to meet flight readiness.