What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Mechanical Engineer position at Red Canyon Engineering & Software?
Do you want to help a small company make a BIG difference in space? Do you take ownership of your job and responsibility for your actions? Then come work for Red Canyon and help us continue our mission of helping humankind reach the stars!
Red Canyon Software is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to support Walt Disney Imagineering's Ride & Show teams! In this role, you will work with the team to provide testing of various types of rides with vehicle design and simulation to help determine what to build for future projects.
Must haves:
-Vehicle design is a must have
-Comfortable with integration to software platforms
-Solidworks
-Must have simulation tools: Houdini, Maya
-Modeling and design
Contract: Hourly with benefits
Location: On-site in Glendale, CA
Duration: February - 6/23/2025
\n- Develop mechanical designs that meet functional requirements.
- Own all phases of the design and fabrication process – early concept design, prototyping, 3D modeling, detailed design, production drawings for manufacturing, assembly and testing
- Lead internal design reviews and reviews with external vendors and fabricators
- Interface with Disney fabricators or external machine shops to ensure that designs can be successfully produced
- Test and iterate on proof-of-concept designs, evolving requirements and designs as the team learns
- Contribute to the culture and community of the WDI R&D Studio
- 7 years experience as a mechanical design engineer
- Strong mechanical design experience, ideally in vehicle or automotive design
- Experience designing and building complex, electro-mechanical systems
- CAD experience (preferably SolidWorks) mastery of parts/assemblies/drawings
- Rapid prototyping experience, ability to fabricate your designs at a prototype level
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes (plating, milling, turning, EDM, grinding)
- Embraces flexibility and adaptability as the team learns through prototyping and playtesting, adjusting strategy as needed
- Experience managing fabrication vendors
- Ability to work collaboratively with other technical and creative disciplines
- Ability to provide clear direction and feedback to other team members
- Thinks strategically and creatively to solve challenges
- Manages & prioritizes multiple assignments in a highly dynamic R&D environment
- Demonstrates a desire to constantly improve and adapt to new technologies
- Experience with actuator design, motor selection and sizing
- Materials science and metallurgy experience
- Experience designing and fabricating with flexible materials
- Complex surface modeling capabilities
- Experience with kinematic motion analysis
- Structural FEA experience
- Experience with tolerance stack-up analysis
- Sheet metal and weldment design
- Matlab, Simulink or Python experience
- Industrial design experience, ability to pair aesthetic form with function
Red Canyon Engineering and Software: “Exploring Other Planets, Improving our Own”
Red Canyon contracts with NASA, NOAA, NREL, JPL, and DOD, in addition to customers such as Lockheed Martin Space, Raytheon, Sierra Space, a.i. solutions, Walt Disney Imagineering, SAIC, Sidus Space, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, Honeywell, KBRwyle, Peraton, LASP, Maxar, Blue Origin, and Moog. We specialize in building spacecraft, developing renewable energy technologies to help make our planet a better world and cutting edge research and development. Our disciplines include embedded flight software, software testing, GN&C, systems engineering, mechanical design, structural analysis, real time flight and ground software, simulation software, user interface software, and mission management software. We help our contractors with the full life cycle of product development from requirements to test and delivery.
Some of the programs we have previously or currently worked on include: Human Lander System, Artemis I-II, WorldView Legion V, Perseverance Rover, InSight, GeoXO, Tranche-1, LizzieSat, Dream Chaser, Psyche, Mars 98, Odyssey 01, Stardust, Genesis and Deep Impact, Mars Phoenix, Joint Polar Satellite System, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Orion, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GOES-R, OSIRIS-REx, Maven, JUNO, Grail, and the MarsFlight and LunarSIM Simulation.
Red Canyon’s home office is located in scenic Denver, Colorado, and our regional office, Launch Now, is in historic downtown Titusville, Florida. We are a small company that maintains a flat organization to decrease our overhead and costs to our customers. Our number one focus is to solve some of the most complicated engineering problems humankind is facing.
Does it sound like you want to join our mission?
Red Canyon Software, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Red Canyon Software, Inc does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Salary : $50 - $60
