Leadership of multi-disciplinary engineering teams
Hypersonic re-entry and landing design experience
Outpost is seeking a Director of Structures and Mechanisms to lead the engineering team responsible for the structural integrity of their reusable space vehicles. The role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership to ensure the design and execution of structures endure the rigors of space travel
Job Summary
The Director of Structures and Mechanisms serves as the executive technical leader responsible for the entire structural system of Outpost's Carryall vehicle.
This role requires designing for round-trip missions involving launch vibration, vacuum, and extreme thermal loads during hypersonic re-entry and landing.
The successful candidate will build and scale a world-class team while owning the technical execution and flight certification of all primary and secondary structures.
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Outpost is seeking a Director of Structures and Mechanisms to lead the engineering team responsible for the structural integrity of their reusable space vehicles. The role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership to ensure the design and execution of structures endure the rigors of space travel.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Deep structural engineering expertise
Leadership of multi-disciplinary engineering teams
Hypersonic re-entry and landing design experience
FEA analysis standards (ANSYS/FEMAP/NASTRAN)
ASME Y14.5 geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
Structural qualification campaign management
Supply chain resilience for precision hardware
Nice-to-have
Proven track record of seeing hardware fly
Experience with defense and civil agreements
Ability to resolve system-level trades
Strategic relationship building with vendors
Intuition from hardware failure analysis
Key Requirements
Proven leader with hardware flight experience
Management experience scaling engineering teams
Final sign-off authority on structural architecture