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Senior Vehicle Structures Design Engineer

Long Beach (CA)💼 Full-time💰 $132,000–$132,000🗓 2026-07-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing parts, assemblies, and systems for the Terran R rocket from conceptualization through release, focusing on manufacturability, mass reduction, and interference prevention.

Role type

Senior IC vehicle structures design engineer

Builds

Primary and secondary structures for the Terran R rocket stages

Domain

Aerospace / Rocketry

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

mechanical or structural design, CAD modeling, packaging assessment, tolerance stack analysis, BOM structuring, GD&T, configuration management

Preferred skills

NX/Teamcenter PLM, fatigue failure mechanisms, large assembly navigation

Technologies

NX, TeamCenter, CATIA, Creo, SOLIDWORKS

Responsibilities

Design and develop piece parts, assemblies, and systems using large machined metallic components, sheet metal, and composites; Integrate design for manufacturing choices in coordination with manufacturing engineering; Perform packaging assessment to resolve interferences and validate hardware stacks; Support BOM and configuration management across multiple vehicle systems; Create and release drawings incorporating GD&T as primary definition

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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