Senior Mechanical Engineer

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes intro about Slingshot, then "What You’ll Be Launching", then "Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It)", then "Pre-flight Checklist", then "Preferred Skills". Also mention relocation assistance. We must not repeat job title as heading. Use

for section headings. Use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use

  for prose. Remove boilerplate, navigation, etc. No Pay/Schedule/Benefits unless present. There's no explicit pay or schedule. There's relocation assistance mentioned: "Relocation assistance is available for this position." That's a benefit; we can include under Benefits section if we want, but only if posting actually states them. It does state relocation assistance, so we can include a Benefits section with that. Also maybe mention travel up to 10% as part of requirements? That's under Pre-flight Checklist (ability to travel). That's not a benefit but a requirement. We'll keep it in Pre-flight Checklist. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include all bullet points from sections. We must not include duplicated lines. Ensure we don't repeat. We'll structure:

  About the role

  maybe? The intro about Slingshot could be About the role. But the instruction: use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have About the role (intro), Responsibilities (What You’ll Be Launching + Your Mission?), Requirements (Pre-flight Checklist), Skills (Preferred Skills), Benefits (Relocation assistance). Could also combine Responsibilities and Your Mission into one Responsibilities section. We need to decide sections based on content. Let's extract: Intro: "Meet SlingshotAt Slingshot Aerospace, we're on a mission...". That's about company and role context. Could be About the role. What You’ll Be Launching: description of role responsibilities. Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It): list of duties (many bullet-like sentences). Could be Responsibilities. Pre-flight Checklist: qualifications (required). Preferred Skills: preferred. Relocation assistance: benefit. Also mention "Ability to travel up to 10% of the time within and outside of the United States to support customer engagements, technical exchanges, sensor installations, or field troubleshooting" is under Pre-flight Checklist. We must not include headings with filler. So we will include sections only if we have content. We'll produce:

  About the role

  ...

  Responsibilities

  • ... (combined from What You’ll Be Launching and Your Mission)

  Requirements

  • ... (Pre-flight Checklist)

  Preferred Skills

  • ... (Preferred Skills)

  Benefits

  • Relocation assistance is available for this position.
  We must ensure not to duplicate content. Let's extract each piece. First, About the role: combine the introductory paragraph(s) before "What You’ll Be Launching". The text: "Meet SlingshotAt Slingshot Aerospace, we're on a mission to make space safer and more secure for everyone. Our work directly impacts global security, disaster response, climate monitoring, and the critical infrastructure that connects our world. We're a team of builders, thinkers, and problem-solvers who believe that the next generation of space operations will be powered by better data and smarter software. We move fast, we're not afraid to fail, and we believe the best ideas can come from anywhere—whether you're in engineering, sales, product, or operations. If you want to work on something that truly matters, with people who care deeply about the impact we're making and help shape the future of an industry that's just getting started, you're in the right place. Relocation assistance is available for this position." Note: The relocation assistance sentence appears here but we will move it to Benefits. However we should not duplicate. We'll keep it only in Benefits. So About the role paragraph should exclude that sentence. Let's copy the intro up to before "Relocation assistance". The text: "Meet SlingshotAt Slingshot Aerospace, we're on a mission to make space safer and more secure for everyone. Our work directly impacts global security, disaster response, climate monitoring, and the critical infrastructure that connects our world. We're a team of builders, thinkers, and problem-solvers who believe that the next generation of space operations will be powered by better data and smarter software. We move fast, we're not afraid to fail, and we believe the best ideas can come from anywhere—whether you're in engineering, sales, product, or operations. If you want to work on something that truly matters, with people who care deeply about the impact we're making and help shape the future of an industry that's just getting started, you're in the right place." Note there is a missing space after "Meet SlingshotAt". We'll keep as is? Probably we should keep original text but maybe add a space for readability? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Changing spacing might be considered altering? It's minor formatting; but we can keep as is. However we could add a space after "Meet Slingshot" to make it readable but that's adding a character not present. Safer to keep exactly as given: "Meet SlingshotAt Slingshot Aerospace, we're on a mission...". That's weird but it's the source. We'll keep. Now Responsibilities: combine "What You’ll Be Launching" paragraph and the bullet list under "Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It)". The "What You’ll Be Launching" paragraph: "As a senior member of Space Surveillance Research and Development (R&D) technical staff, you will take a lead role advancing Slingshot’s efforts to accelerate the security, safety, and sustainability of space via the development and deployment of next-generation electro-optical space surveillance systems. You will serve as a senior mechanical engineering contributor for Slingshot’s ground-based sensing systems, designing the structures, enclosures, mechanisms, mounts, and optomechanical hardware that allow precision optical systems to operate reliably in some of the most demanding environments on Earth. This work will include a subset of (i) designing and modifying telescope and sensor enclosures for remote and extreme-environment operation; (ii) developing ruggedized mechanical systems capable of reliable operation in polar and other harsh environments; (iii) designing precision optomechanical structures, mounts, and alignment systems for custom optical assemblies; (iv) developing rigid structures for arrays of optical sensors and telescope assemblies; (v) integrating high-performance mechanical components into electro-optical sensing systems; and (vi) working directly with fabrication partners and field teams to take designs from concept through manufacturing, assembly, deployment, and operation. This role is intended for a highly practical mechanical engineer who enjoys solving unusual hardware problems and seeing those solutions operate in the real world. The right person will be equally comfortable developing a precision mechanical design in CAD, working through tolerances with a machine shop, troubleshooting an electromechanical mechanism in the lab, and helping a field team understand why a system behaves differently at -50°C than it did in Colorado." Then "Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It)" is a long list of duties each starting with a verb. We'll turn each into
• . Need to ensure we don't miss any. Let's extract each bullet from that section: - Design and develop mechanical structures, telescope enclosures, equipment housings, mounts, frames, optical benches, and other hardware for permanent and deployable sensing systems - Lead mechanical design and hardening of systems intended for operation in polar and other extreme environments, accounting for environmental effects such as cold temperatures, wind, snow, ice, moisture, freeze/thaw cycles, marine atmospheric corrosion, and large thermal excursions - Develop approaches for maintaining reliable mechanical operation, alignment, sealing, lubrication, cable management, and serviceability at very low temperatures - Design custom optomechanical hardware including lens mounts, camera mounts, optical tube interfaces, baffles, alignment features, focus mechanisms, and other precision assemblies - Design rigid mounting structures and alignment architectures for stationary arrays of small optical tube assemblies and other multi-sensor configurations - Analyze and control mechanical deflection, vibration, thermal expansion, and tolerance accumulation where they affect optical alignment, pointing, or image quality - Select appropriate materials, finishes, bearings, seals, lubricants, fasteners, motors, gearboxes, and other components for the intended operating environment - Develop mechanical architectures for integrating precision electromechanical and positioning components into high-performance electro-optical sensing systems - Analyze and optimize the dynamic performance of mechanical systems where rapid response, precise positioning, repeatability, structural stiffness, and settling behavior are critical to sensor performance - Work closely with optical, electrical, software, controls, systems, calibration, and field operations engineers to develop integrated sensing systems - Develop mechanical requirements, interface definitions, design trades, and verification approaches in partnership with systems engineering teams - Perform appropriate structural, thermal, tolerance, and dynamic analyses to support mechanical design decisions and verify system performance - Develop fabrication-ready drawings, tolerances, GD&T, bills of material, assembly documentation, and other technical data required to build and maintain hardware - Identify, evaluate, and work directly with machine shops, sheet-metal fabricators, weld shops, enclosure manufacturers, and other suppliers to turn engineering designs into reliable hardware - Build and prototype hardware in-house when doing so is the fastest way to answer an engineering question or retire technical risk - Lead mechanical assembly, integration, troubleshooting, and verification of prototype and production sensing systems - Support environmental and life testing to validate performance across expected temperature, wind, moisture, icing, duty-cycle, and other operating conditions - Support deployment and commissioning of sensing systems at remote sites, including hands-on troubleshooting of mechanical and electromechanical issues - Design for maintainability and field serviceability, recognizing that deployed systems may operate autonomously for long periods and may be expensive or difficult to access - Investigate mechanical failures and performance issues observed in deployed systems and drive corrective actions into future designs - Establish and mature mechanical design practices, component selection standards, drawing practices, and lessons learned for Slingshot’s growing global sensor network - Share subject matter expertise through mentoring and training of other staff - Take point in writing technical sections of proposals for winning new work - Lead technical work on larger team efforts including cross-team initiatives - Ideate and champion internal research & development activities Now Requirements (Pre-flight Checklist): List: - Undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering field - 7+ years of relevant experience designing and delivering mechanical hardware for aerospace, optical, scientific, robotics, industrial automation, or other demanding technical applications - Significant experience with 3D CAD and production of fabrication-ready engineering drawings - Demonstrated experience taking mechanical systems from concept through detailed design, fabrication, assembly, test, and field deployment - Experience designing mechanical systems for outdoor, harsh-environment, or extreme-temperature operation - Strong understanding of mechanical design fundamentals including structural design, materials, tolerancing, GD&T, fasteners and joints, bearings, sealing, and manufacturing processes - Experience performing engineering analysis appropriate to mechanical design, such as structural FEA, thermal analysis, tolerance analysis, or mechanism dynamics - Experience working directly with machine shops, fabricators, and hardware vendors to turn designs into finished systems - Hands-on ability and willingness to assemble, modify, troubleshoot, and test mechanical and electromechanical hardware - Ability to work effectively across optical, electrical, software, controls, systems engineering, and field operations disciplines - Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the demonstrated ability to convey salient details about advanced technology in a compelling manner to both experts and non-experts alike - Ability to travel up to 10% of the time within and outside of the United States to support customer engagements, technical exchanges, sensor installations, or field troubleshooting - Must be a U.S. citizen