Spacecraft Engineer

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Downtown Los Angeles (On‑Site with a transition to hybrid over time)

$150,000 - $200,000 + Stock Options + Fast tracked career progression + Health Benefits + PTO

Are you a structural dynamics specialist with spacecraft jitter experience, excited by deep technical ownership, complex spacecraft challenges, and a fast‑paced startup environment with little red tape and accelerated career growth?

On offer is a role where you will define stability budgets, integrate flexible structures into control simulations, and remove unnecessary conservatism from spacecraft design.

This company is a high‑growth space engineering organisation operating at the cutting edge of satellite development. They value technical excellence, give engineers real authority over design decisions, and invest heavily in tools, testing, and engineering rigour. You’ll be surrounded by industry experts who care about getting the physics right and improving how engineering is done.

You will be responsible for predicting and managing micro‑vibration and Line‑of‑Sight stability, creating reduced‑order models for control teams, and validating analytical predictions against test data. Your work will directly impact pointing accuracy, payload performance, and mission success.

This role would suit a Structural Dynamics Engineer looking for ownership of jitter performance, deep technical challenges, and enhanced career progression at a no‑politics startup.

• Lead frequency‑domain and time‑domain jitter and micro‑vibration analysis for satellite systems
• Develop and deliver reduced‑order structural models to support GNC and Control‑Structure Interaction studies
• Define and automate analysis workflows for coupled loads, sine vibration, and stability predictions
• Support and correlate modal survey and vibration test campaigns

• Strong background in structural dynamics for spacecraft
• Jitter and micro‑vibration expertise
• Knowledge of Nastran for dynamic and vibroacoustic analysis
• Proven experience handling large datasets using Python, MATLAB, or equivalent computational tools

Reference Number: BBBH
267025

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