Principal Engineer
Longmont, CO
Engineering /
Full-time /
On-site
Honeybee Robotics is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the development and verification of custom mechanisms and electromechanical subsystems for spaceflight applications.
Responsibilities:
- Understand the voice of the customer and continually inject that vision into the product development effort.
- Develop conceptual designs and work plans for new product development, including estimation of resources required.
- Perform top-level architectural design and preliminary analysis/sizing of spaceflight electromechanical hardware.
- Act as the primary interface between mechanical and electrical engineering teams
- Analyze and define product functional requirements.
- Analyze and define subsystem requirements, including mechanical, electronic, embedded systems and software, etc.
- Own product functional and validation requirements
- Perform hazards and risk analysis and develop mitigation strategies.
- Apply engineering principles to and directly participate in the design, fabrication, assembly, and test of various mechatronic systems.
- Generate and review fabrication, test, and quality assurance documentation and vendor specifications.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of post-grad experience developing custom mechatronic products
- Experience with rapid prototyping methods, including hardware & software for fast proof-of-concept development
- Experience writing and maintaining design and test quality assurance documentation
- Demonstrable hands-on experience with all phases of development, including requirements analysis, prototype design, product design, assembly, debugging, and testing
- Expert in CAD (e.g., Solidworks or equivalent)
- Excellent intra-team and client-facing collaboration and communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years of product development team leadership experience
- Previous aerospace industry experience
Compensation and Benefits:
- Employee Benefits include medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and short and long-term disability.
- 401(k) with immediate vesting and a 4.5% company match (100% on the first 3% and 50% on the next 3%)
- Education Reimbursement for certificate, undergraduate, and graduate programs
- Paid Time Off includes up to 4 weeks per year, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, two floating, and 11 company holidays.
$156,000 - $194,000 a year
Salary is determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
This job posting is anticipated to close on 6/1/2024.
