Mechanical Engineer

Hawthorne, CA
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

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.

About Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)

Moon Hotel -> The Intergalactic Construction Company of Earth

Required skills

CAD Design

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Job details

Salary

$120,000 - $170,000

Equity

0.25% - 0.75%

Location

Hawthorne, CA

Experience

1+ years

Company

NameGalactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)
IndustryAviation and Space
Team Size5

Funding

Total raised

$100K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

K

Kevin

Head of ISRU Program

Skyler Chan

Skyler Chan

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.