Mechanical Engineer

Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space) · Hawthorne, CA, US · In-office · Posted 1mo ago

$120k - $170k

Moon Hotel -> The Intergalactic Construction Company of Earth

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.

Apply on Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)'s site