Spacecraft Mechanical Design Engineer

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Star Catcher Industries, which is building an energy grid in space to wirelessly beam power to spacecraft’s existing solar panels, is hiring a Spacecraft Mechanical Design Engineer in Jacksonville, Florida to support development of its space-to-space power beaming spacecraft and the Star Catcher Network orbital power grid, with responsibility for design, detailing and configuration control of spacecraft mechanical systems and components.

The engineer designs components and assemblies in Autodesk Inventor, creates GD&T fabrication and assembly drawings and takes them through review and release, maintains the spacecraft CAD configuration, tracks mass properties against budget, performs tolerance stack-up analysis, resolves mechanical interfaces across structures, mechanisms, thermal, optical and avionics hardware, designs electronics enclosures, and supports hands‑on build and integration of flight, ground support and test hardware.

Basic qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in mechanical, structural or aerospace engineering or a related field, at least three years of designing, drafting and releasing flight, ground support or test hardware, GD&T per ASME Y14.5 in Autodesk Inventor or equivalent, managed CAD data experience, spacecraft or vehicle mass properties experience and hands‑on shop, lab or cleanroom experience; ITAR requires U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency or other eligibility,

• and benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k), life insurance and paid parental leave.