Spacecraft Mechanisms Engineer

Position Title: Spacecraft Mechanisms Engineer
Location: Kennedy Space Center – Merritt Island, Florida
Relocation Assistance: None available at this time
Remote/Telework: No – Full-time onsite position at Kennedy Space Center
Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident and successfully complete a U.S. government background investigation
Employment Type: Full-time, Salaried, Exempt
Work Schedule: Full-time
Travel: Travel as needed to other NASA centers and commercial partner facilities

Aegis Aerospace, Inc. is seeking a Spacecraft Mechanisms Engineer to support engineering activities at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This position supports technical insight, design evaluation, mechanical assessment, and engineering analysis related to spacecraft provider designs, mechanical systems, mechanisms, and associated flight hardware.

The Spacecraft Mechanisms Engineer will evaluate spacecraft mechanical systems and mechanisms throughout design, analysis, testing, manufacturing, integration, and operation. The selected candidate will work alongside members of an integrated performance team, including structures, thermal, electrical, mission design, materials, contamination, and space environments experts, to assess provider designs and their ability to fulfill mission requirements.

This role includes independent technical assessment of mechanical designs as well as targeted CAD modeling, fit checks, interface evaluations, and analysis support where needed to provide additional technical insight for the NASA customer.

• Provide technical insight and assessment of spacecraft mechanical systems, mechanisms, and associated flight hardware.
• Evaluate provider mechanical designs, analyses, test approaches, manufacturing considerations, and operational concepts to identify technical risks and support design maturity assessments.
• Provide insight and oversight throughout the design, analysis, testing, manufacturing, integration, and operation of spacecraft mechanical systems and mechanisms.
• Assess spacecraft mechanisms and mechanical assemblies, including hinges, latches, deployment systems, actuators, release mechanisms, payload restraint systems, doors, hatches, movable structures, and mechanical interfaces.
• Evaluate mechanism performance considerations, including kinematics, loads, clearances, alignment, tolerances, margins, interfaces, reliability, lifecycle performance, and credible failure modes.
• Plan and conduct independent engineering assessments of complex spacecraft mechanical systems and mechanisms to evaluate provider designs, assumptions, margins, technical risks, and proposed design refinements.
• Review technical analyses, test plans, test results, drawings, CAD models, interface definitions, and other engineering products to assess technical adequacy.
• Perform CAD-based assessments, including fit checks, volume and envelope evaluations, interface assessments, center-of-mass evaluations, and other rapid mechanical evaluations needed to support technical insight.
• Prepare, manipulate, defeature, and export CAD models and STP files at appropriate levels of fidelity to support structural, thermal, fluid, and other integrated engineering analyses.
• Support stress and structural assessment activities, including model input preparation and coordination with structures and loads and dynamics engineers.
• Evaluate mechanism performance across applicable environments, including launch loads, vibration, shock, thermal environments, vacuum, contamination, and other relevant mission conditions.
• Support technical investigations involving mechanical anomalies, design changes, interface concerns, nonconformances, and other emerging issues.
• Work alongside members of the…