Senior Mechanical Engineer: Optical Payloads, Space

Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa

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Company
Anduril Industries
Location
Costa Mesa
Salary
$166,000 — $220,000
Posted
March 11, 2026

About this job

WHAT YOU’LL DO? Create opto-mechanical designs of space payloads ranging from small cameras to large telescopes Act as Responsible Engineer: conduct analyses, visit vendors and test sites, define and execute test plans, and manage subsystem interfaces Run finite element models and hand calculations to predict stresses in mechanical and optical components Contribute to STOP analyses to evaluate structural and thermal effects on optical performance Conduct hand calculations and run higher order thermal analyses to evaluate survival and operational on-orbit temperatures including solar loading effects through apertures and optics Design alignment features and conduct tolerance stack-ups enabling sub-arcsecond payload pointing and stability over large temperature ranges Own hardware design…

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