Vehicle Engineering Manager

Vehicle Engineering Manager

Department: Vehicle Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Hawthorne, California

Reporting To: Craig Western

Compensation: $166,000 - $187,000 / year

Venturi Astrolab, Inc. (Astrolab) is pioneering new ways to explore and operate on distant planetary bodies. We are singularly focused on designing, building, and operating a fleet of multi-purpose commercial planetary rovers to extend and enhance humanity’s presence in the solar system. We are seeking motivated, creative, and exceptional people to join our world-class team. You will collaborate with other Astrolab engineers to advance product design and analysis.

You will be ultimately responsible for leading a team through the entire design process, through production support, and mission operations.

• Lead a team of interdisciplinary engineers within Vehicle Engineering
• Create systems-level vehicle layout and architecture compliant with design requirements
• Maintain schedule, development milestones, budget, and resource allocation
• Design concepts/ solutions and first-order analysis
• Drive the design and development of mechanical systems
• Support the development of materials for design review milestones (DCR, PDR, CDR, etc) and act as the reviewer and approver for design unit progression
• Capture, report, and analyze quality objective data
• Participate in management Review meetings
• Participate in internal and external audits of this process
• Manage documented information for this process
• Train the team and new or transferred employees in this process
• Support goals and objectives of AS9100
• Conduct weekly 1 on 1 meetings with direct reports
• Conduct semi-annual reviews with direct reports

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or STEM field
• 5+ years of experience in mechanical system engineering
• 3+ years of experience leading a team of engineers
• Experience using CAD software for part modeling and development (NX preferred).
• Experience using software packages for finite element modeling and analysis
• Experience in design for manufacturing and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing of parts
• Experience interfacing with thermal requirements and analyses
• Experience interfacing with avionics and software (e.g., for actuator motor control)

• Master’s degree in engineering
• Experience in the engineering of structures, mechanisms, and actuators
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute flight hardware development programs from the ground up
• Demonstrated experience specifying and executing hardware qualification and acceptance test programs

• Join a team of best-in-class engineers building the foundation of planetary surface exploration
• Equity ownership in the company
• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health support
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Flexible PTO and parental leave
• Home office set up reimbursement
• Weekly lunch stipend, plus complimentary snacks and beverages on-site
• Once a month social hour on-site with food and drinks