We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer (Structures) with 10+ years of experience to serve as the structural architect of our Carryall re-entry vehicle. This is a role for a full-vehicle structural owner, not a subsystem engineer. You will define and own the structure across the entire mission profile, designing for launch loads, orbital vacuum, and hypersonic re-entry through landing.
We are specifically looking for someone who has taken complete flight vehicle structures from concept through build, test, and flight on spacecraft, launch vehicles, or re-entry systems.
What will you be doing?
Outpost is rewriting the rules of global logistics. Our CarryAll platform launches on commercial rockets, then glides back from orbit to deliver tons of cargo, anywhere on Earth, in under 90 minutes. The same reusable vehicle ferries high‐value products made in microgravity back to customers, opening a new era of just‐in‐time space manufacturing. The company was founded by aerospace innovator Jason Dunn, whose earlier work put the first 3D printers on the International Space Station and proved orbital fiber‐optic production. Backed by $37 million in contracts and awards from the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, NASA, and other mission‐critical customers, Outpost pairs aerospace‐grade hardware with a software‐driven logistics stack to get life‐saving supplies, strategic payloads, and next‐gen materials precisely where they’re needed, fast. Headquartered in Los Angeles, we’re building the infrastructure that lets humanity move anything, anywhere, at the speed of space. Join us.
Salary
$180,000 - $225,000
Location
Los Angeles
Total raised
$47.0M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Mike Vergalla
Co-founder
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