Mechanical Engineer
Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space) · San Francisco, CA, US
Job Description
Your product will land on the Moon next year.
You’ll design, build, and test our 2027 Lunar Payload: the one that manufactures humanity’s first bricks on the Moon and deploys an inflatable habitat bladder. This is hands-on, full-lifecycle hardware engineering at a pace most aerospace companies can’t keep up with.
What you’ll do:
- Own the mechanical design of the payload from concept through flight hardware.
- Rapidly prototype, test, break things, and iterate.
- Manage ICD with the lunar lander provider and be the primary point of contact.
- Run and interpret structural/mechanism analysis to support design trades.
What we’re looking for:
- Deep fluency with CAD and FEA tools: you think in 3D and can back it up with analysis.
- Experience designing spaceflight hardware end-to-end (build, test, deploy).
- Comfort with mechanisms: actuators, seals, deployables, pressure systems, end effectors, and more.
- You’re using the latest AI tools every day (i.e., Opus 4.6/GPT 5.4, in appropriate harness) to massively increase your output and do things you otherwise couldn’t.
- You’ve built flight hardware before.
If you want to maximize the probability that humanity becomes interplanetary in your lifetime, apply and share a portfolio of the technical work you’re most proud of.
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