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Design, develop, test, and operate planetary rovers and related mechanical hardware. Own products throughout their lifecycle, from requirements definition through mission operations. Create models, drawings, analyses, test plans, reports, certification documentation, and operations plans. Develop engineering tools and best practices while collaborating with leadership and mentoring junior engineers, contractors, and interns.

Lead mechanical and structures engineering for planetary rovers and related lunar hardware. Responsibilities include defining design, analysis, and test practices; architecting mechanical and thermal platforms; developing engineering tools; managing priorities through program phases; leading designs from start to finish; and mentoring junior engineers, contractors, and interns.

Design multilayer, high-speed, mixed-signal, and power PCBs while owning the Altium component library. Develop symbols, footprints, 3D models, layout standards, stackups, constraints, and manufacturing release processes. Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing teams on design integration, DFM/DFA, prototype feedback, and fabrication packages. Create documentation and training for Altium workflows, library governance, PCB layout, and PCBA releases.

Design and develop fabrication, assembly, integration, and test processes for flight-qualified rover structures, mechanisms, and subsystems. Lead DFx, standards development, non-conformance investigations, root-cause analysis, hands-on build and test activities, work instruction creation, and cross-functional project execution. Support supplier development, quality systems, configuration management, procurement, and production planning for lunar hardware and facility development.

Design and validate electromagnetic compatibility for spacecraft avionics and electro-mechanical systems. Responsibilities include defining EMI/EMC requirements, conducting electromagnetic analyses and design trades, troubleshooting issues, operating and automating test equipment, creating technical documentation, and supporting flight hardware qualification, spacecraft integration, and risk management.

Serve as a strategic People Operations partner to managers and employees, providing coaching, employee relations support, investigations, compliance guidance, and lifecycle management. Lead performance, onboarding, organizational scaling, and workplace culture initiatives while ensuring California employment law compliance. Improve HR policies, processes, systems, reporting, and employee engagement across technical, engineering, manufacturing, and operational teams.

Lead development and execution of lunar mission operations: define ConOps, operational strategies, procedures, timelines, simulations, training, anomaly response, and real-time surface mission control to ensure safe, efficient rover missions.

Lead design, analysis, implementation, tuning, verification, and validation of robotic control systems for extra‑terrestrial rovers. Develop simulations, prototype controllers, testbeds, and supporting documentation. Integrate controllers with flight software and collaborate with avionics, integration, and test teams while mentoring junior engineers.

Design, implement, and harden enterprise and mission network infrastructure to NIST 800-171/53 standards; manage on-prem and Azure networking (Hub & Spoke, ExpressRoute, VPN), firewalls, wireless, automation (Ansible/Chef/Puppet), ensure low-latency telemetry/video for missions, troubleshoot and optimize performance, mentor junior engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and maintain architecture documentation and runbooks.

Lead end-to-end industrial design for lunar hardware, collaborating with engineering and marketing to translate technical constraints into cohesive product form. Own CMF strategy, rapid prototyping, and visualization using Blender, Adobe Creative Suite, and Alias. Ensure designs meet manufacturing, mass, thermal, and structural constraints while preserving brand identity across products.