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Reflect Orbital

Mechatronics Engineer

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In-Office
Hawthorne, CA
90K-160K Annually
Mid level
In-Office
Hawthorne, CA
90K-160K Annually
Mid level
The Mechatronics Engineer will design and implement actuation and control schemes for electromechanical systems, focusing on hardware and software integration, testing, and prototyping.
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At Reflect, you will be expected to move fast, have a lot of ownership and, most importantly, be able to effect change. If this excites you, we are interested in hearing about your best work and accomplishments across any domain and from any points in your life.

About the Role

As a Mechatronics Engineer, you will be responsible for making the electromechanical deployment systems on our vehicle come to life in a fusion of electrical engineering, programming and mechanisms design. Your highest priority is delivering functioning hardware that strikes a balance between simplicity, scrappiness, analytical rigor and ingenuity.

Responsibilities
  • Design and implement the actuation and control scheme for deploying our reflectors

  • Take hardware and software from conceptual design through qualification to on-orbit operations

  • Design, program, tune and debug motor control hardware

  • Own the interfaces between and integration of actuators and controllers with the rest of the avionics system

  • De-risk the performance of complex actuation systems with a significant amount of hands-on prototyping and testing

Ideal Qualifications
  • You've lead or participated in anomaly investigations for space mechanisms

  • You’ve designed and programmed motor controllers before from scratch

  • You have a deep understanding of how motors and motor control works

  • You have enough mechanical design experience to do quick prototyping work

  • You have strong experience collaboratively designing complex interdependent systems

  • You’ve debugged novel actuation systems before in a scrappy environment with lots of iterative testing

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you. Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.

We are also interested in carving out unique roles for unconventional people that we are excited about working with.

Benefits

Reflect Orbital’s success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we’re able.

  • Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy

  • Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K

  • Unlimited paid time off, two-weeks per year encouraged

  • Healthy lunches provided daily

Equal Opportunity

Reflect Orbital is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Reflect Orbital is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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Top Skills

Avionics
Electronics
Mechanisms Design
Motor Control Hardware
Programming
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Los Angeles, CA, United States

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