Senior Electromechanical Engineer

About Varda

The environment of space hold the potential to craft products that profoundly enhance life on Earth. Varda is at the forefront of this endeavor, harnessing the unique environment of low earth orbit to produce these innovations and reintroduce them to our world. Our mission transcends mere exploration; we're expanding the economic horizons of humanity.

At Varda, you'll be positioned at the nexus of ambition and expertise. Our seasoned team, with its rich legacy in aerospace and technology, has honed its skills in the corridors of industry giants. Here, your contributions will be both cherished and critiqued by leaders who, with a wealth of experience behind them, are now devoted to the realm of extraterrestrial manufacturing.

While our aspirations soar high, our path is grounded in technical pragmatism and operational viability. Our conceptual operations are crystalline material processing and reentry, backed by years of research and development anchored in the International Space Station's, and commercial space sectors expansive achievements.

Join Varda, and work to finally create a bustling in-space ecosystem.

About this Role

As a Senior Electromechanical Engineer, you will have full ownership of a range of both manufacturing and research payloads within our reentry vehicle.  In this position, you will drive electromechanical hardware development including design, analysis, build, and testing at sub and full system levels.  You will have significant freedom on the platform design while driving the full product lifecycle from concept to completion. 

Varda payloads serve a range of customers, so you’ll need to be comfortable operating across technical domains as either as the expert or as the technical lead while pulling in internal Varda experts as required to guarantee successful delivery.  Typical electromechanical support falls into one of several categories -

• Pharmaceutical payloads: In this capacity, you will work with Varda’s product team to develop spacecraft-compatible pharmaceutical equipment to manufacture novel drugs in space and return them to Earth. In other words, you’ll build our space factories! 
• Research and development payloads: In this capacity, you will work closely with the mission management team to serve government and commercial customers interested in using our reentry vehicle to test novel flight hardware (avionics, materials, sensors, etc.). This will involve making modifications to our vehicle as required to meet customer requirements and developing custom hardware to support these efforts
• Next Gen Manufacturing Platforms: We use microgravity to make products that are impossible to make on Earth. You’ll build the factories

Given the diversity of technical challenges you may face, you are likely a broad technical generalist with depth in one or more of structures, mechanisms/mechatronics, fluid systems, and/or avionics and a strong interest in learning new skills