Vehicle Structures Design Engineer II
About The Team
The Structures and Mechanisms team is responsible for the full design, build, and test lifecycle of Terran R’s integrated structures and flight mechanisms. Whether you're working on highly iterative mechanisms that move or tight-margin structures that shouldn’t, you’ll get hands-on hardware ownership and see the rocket coming to life on the factory floor. Both teams fall under one department, sharing design principles, tools, and an integrated approach that provides a comprehensive view of Terran R. Team members work on multiple parts, not just within a single subsystem, and are empowered to make decisions that directly impact flight hardware. Beyond first flight, you’ll play a critical role in refining for manufacturability and speed.
About The Role
- Design and develop piece parts, assemblies, and systems from early conceptualization up through full initial release – working with large machined metallic components, sheet metal, composites, formed panels, and more
- Integrate critical design for manufacturing choices in direct coordination with the manufacturing engineering team
- Support packaging assessment of systems – resolve interferences, perform tolerance stack analyses, validate hardware stacks and fastener selections, integrate nominal gapping and shimming strategies, and more
- Create and release drawings as part of system release sprints post-CDR, including incorporating GD&T as primary definition
Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in a design engineering role
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related discipline
- Experience with industry-standard CAD packages such as NX, CATIA, Creo, or SOLIDWORKS
- Fundamental knowledge of structures strength, stability and fatigue failure mechanisms
Skills
- Self-motivated, adaptable, and able to lead your own projects to completion in a fast-paced environment
- Significant mechanical or structural design experience
- Proven track record completing collaborative projects effectively
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- A generous PTO and sick leave policy
- Parental leave
- An annual learning and development stipend
Pay
Hiring Range: $104,000—$156,000 USD
Schedule
Not specified