Mechanical Design Engineer
Job Description
Role: Mechanical Design Engineer
Employment Type: Full Time
Educational Qualification: Bachelors or Masters degree in Mechanical / Aerospace Engineering or equivalent discipline
Work Experience: 2 years of relevant experience for Master’s candidates or 4 years of relevant experience for Bachelor’s candidates
Role Description:
At Pixxel, we design, manufacture, test and place satellites in orbits. As a structural design engineer, you are responsible for design and development of satellite structures. You are also expected to create BOM, Engineering drawings and interface with manufacturing vendors for successful realization of structure
Responsibilities & Duties:
- CAD Modeling of satellite structures, subsystems, avionic package housings, brackets etc
- Parametric modeling to perform quick design iterations
- Estimation of Mass Properties at subsystem as well as satellite level
- Develop testing methods conforming to functional requirements
- Use Optimization techniques for mass / volume reduction to meet customer requirements
- BOM generation and management
- ECN/ECR management for smooth flow of operations
- Perform analytical calculations to estimate design loads and margins
- Understanding and generation of Engineering drawings
- Interfacing with cross-domain teams for information exchange, generate / identify / ask for required inputs to advance the development
Desirable Skills & Certifications:
- Computer Aided Design - preferably using Siemens NX
- Knowledge of Aerospace materials
- Knowledge of GD & T as per ASME Y14.5, ISO 286, ISO 2768
- Design for Manufacturing & Assembly (DFMA)
- Failure modes, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA)
- Analytical and Problem solving skills
- Technical writing and documentation
Candidate Acumen:
We are looking for a highly motivated and self-initiated individual who is able to work in a flat organizational structure. The ideal candidate will be able to work independently with minimal supervision and can positively add to the pixxel culture
Benefits:
- Health insurance coverage
- Unlimited leaves & flexible working hours
- Role-based remote work and work-from-home benefit
- Relocation assistance
- Professional Mental Wellness services
- Creche facility for primary caregivers (limited to India)
- Employee Stock Options for all hires
About Pixxel
Pixxel is a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from that data. Pixxel’s constellation is designed to provide global coverage every 24 hours and help detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena across agriculture, mining, environment and energy use cases
Pixxel is on a mission to build a health monitor for the planet through a constellation of cutting-edge hyperspectral small satellites. This unique hyperspectral capability will be the key to unearth underlying, unseen problems that are invisible to satellites in orbit today
Pixxel has collaborated with prominent organizations such as the Indian Space Research Organization, NASA JPL, and SpaceX among other leaders in the space industry. The organization is backed by Lightspeed, Radical Ventures, Relativity's Jordan Noone, Seraphim Capital, Ryan Johnson, Blume Ventures, Sparta LLC and Accenture among others
Recently, Pixxel successfully raised $36 Million in its Series B funding round, with participation from new investors like Google, alongside existing investors, bringing the company's total venture funding to $71 Million
To know more about us, visit Pixxel Website
Culture
Pixxel is an organization where we enable our employees to work on world-changing problems that they are passionate about, and a place where they can be their best selves day in and day out while ensuring they have fun every day
Central to our employee-first ethos is a commitment to ensuring that every team member feels valued and heard. We nurture a healthy and supportive work environment where we prioritize well-being and growth in all aspects of life
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