Mechanical Engineer - TeraWave Customer Terminals

Mechanical Engineer
- Tera Wave Customer Terminals### Mechanical Engineer
- Tera Wave Customer Terminals Apply:
Cupertino, CA:
Greater Seattle Area:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R74510

Application close date:

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!  Blue Origin is pioneering the future of space-based connectivity with Tera Wave, a revolutionary satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth.

This network will service tens of thousands of enterprise, data center, and government users who require reliable connectivity for critical operations.

We are seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join the Customer Terminals team and own terminal mechanical design.

This is a founding hire on a young team, and it is a genuinely different job from spacecraft mechanical work. A terminal is a consumer-grade product that has to behave like infrastructure: manufactured in very high volume at an aggressive unit cost, shipped through normal logistics, unboxed and installed by a two-person crew with ordinary tools in a couple of hours, and then left outdoors on a roof to survive years of weather without a service visit.

Every one of those constraints is a mechanical constraint.

We are developing a family of terminals at different capability and cost points, so you will carry a design from concept through prototype, qualification, and production, then apply what you learn to the next variant. Our RF, antenna, ASIC, electrical, and thermal teams are all in-house — you will co-design with them directly rather than across a supplier boundary. And because the team is small and the product is early, you will help define the mechanical practices, standards, and supplier relationships the program runs on.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
* Design for environmental survival — ingress protection, sealing and gasket design, corrosion resistance, UV-stable material selection, impact resistance, and lightning and grounding provisions.
* Design mounting systems and installation hardware for varied site conditions, including roof, pole, and wall mounts, with the anchor and load-path guidance installers need.
* Partner closely with thermal engineering on enclosure-level thermal design — heat extraction from a sealed housing, heat spreading, thermal interface selection, solar load management, and cold-start behavior under ice and snow.
* Drive design for manufacturability, assembly, and test with contract manufacturers and tooling suppliers, including material and process selection, tolerance strategy, and yield at high volume.
* Support qualification campaigns, including environmental, structural, shipping, and reliability testing, and correlate analysis to test results.
* Develop and maintain CAD models, drawings, and Bills of Materials in the program's PLM system.
* Contribute to serviceability, tamper resistance, and physical security considerations for equipment deployed at customer premises.

Minimum Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
* 2+ years of experience in mechanical design and development of production hardware.
* Proficiency with 3D CAD tools for detailed part and assembly modeling.
* Experience performing structural and thermal analysis using analytical or finite element methods.
* Demonstrated experience designing enclosures or housings for outdoor,…