Mechanical Engineer
About the role
Mechanical Engineer at Beyond Reach Labs, an engineering-driven space startup designing and building large deployable structures for space (e.g., space solar arrays and radiators). Responsible for designing, analyzing, and validating mechanical systems and actuators for deployable structures, with emphasis on reliability, manufacturability, and future generations.
Responsibilities
- Design and Development: - [Content not fully specified in bullet format in the description; role focuses on designing mechanical systems and actuators for deployable structures] Testing and Validation: - [Content not fully specified in the description; role includes testing and validating mechanisms used in solar arrays and radiators] Optimization and Cost Management: - [Content not fully specified in the description; role includes optimization and cost management of mechanical systems]
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field
- 1+ years of experience in a hands-on engineering role working with satellite or launch vehicle mechanisms
- Experience designing and qualifying mechanisms driven by stepper or BLDC motors, springs, and HDRMs
- Proficient in developing design models and drawings for production and analysis using CAD software
Skills
About Beyond Reach Labs
Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit
At Beyond Reach Labs we are building solar panels for Space that grow from the size of a dining table to a football field in orbit. Mitch and Pele met 13 years ago as freshmen at UPenn studying mechanical engineering. Mitch recently got his PhD at Carnegie Mellon working with NASA on kilometer-scale deployable structures, and Pele spent seven years at SpaceX leading Dragon parachute engineering, safely returning astronauts from space. The collective satellites today use around 20MW, roughly the output of a datacenter on earth, but by 2030 there is a demand for over 10GW, a 500x increase, largely driven by orbital datacenters, space stations, and lunar outposts. If you want more power, your only option is to launch larger solar panels, which quickly become fragile or impractically expensive. As a result, power constraints already determine whether missions or industries can exist at all. But at Beyond Reach Labs we have introduced a new class of deployable solar panels giving satellites 10x more usable power without increasing launch mass or volume. This works because our patented deployable design changes geometry in space, allowing for us to reach 10x longer while remaining rigid.
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