Principal Mechanical Engineer
Role Summary
Join The Exploration Company as a Principal Mechanical Engineer in Munich, Germany, leading innovative space vehicle design and development.
About the Organisation
What makes us special here at The Exploration Company and why we think you will enjoy working here is:
We'd love to hear from you if you wish to be a part of our journey. Please submit your CV now for immediate consideration and we will be in touch shortly.
The Exploration Company is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. Relocation assistance is provided for those willing to relocate including visa sponsorship where applicable.
All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, which will be subject to the country, role, and project you applied for. By submitting your application, you acknowledge and agree that any offer of employment may be conditional upon successful condition of this check. The Exploration Company partners with Zinc Work Limited located in the UK (Zinc), a third-party provider, to ensure this process as efficient and transparent as possible.
If applicable, you will receive an email from Zinc upon acceptance of your offer with a link to a secure portal where you can provide the required information to Zinc.
Compensation: €85K – €130K
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- We have a lot of Fun - we refuel our energy knowing we are democratising space. It’s a wonderful and rare opportunity, are YOU up for the challenge?
- • €85K – €130K
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Mechanical Engineering team, defining priorities, supporting growth, and ensuring engineering excellence and delivery.
- Support and collaborate to the mechanical design of the spacecraft and its major assemblies, ensuring structurally efficient, robust, manufacturable, and verifiable design solutions throughout the development lifecycle.
- Provide technical leadership on the design of primary and secondary structures, large assemblies, equipment supports, and critical mechanical interfaces, ensuring consistency between design intent, structural justification, and verification strategy.
- Own structural justification activities across the spacecraft, ensuring consistency of assumptions, margins, analyses, and engineering evidence.
- Coordinate structural analyses and mechanical verification activities, with focus on test strategy and execution, from test definition and prediction to result interpretation and model correlation, ensuring results are coherent, traceable, and aligned with programme objectives.
- Ensure verification evidence generated through testing and analysis is robust, review-ready, and suitable for qualification and certification activities towards space agencies.
- Drive technical reviews, risk identification, and engineering maturity assessments to ensure readiness for major programme milestones.
- Act as a hands-on technical leader, actively contributing to engineering decisions, test campaigns, anomaly investigations, and troubleshooting efforts.
Minimum Requirements
- Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- More than 10 years experience in spacecraft, launch vehicle, aerospace, defence, or other high-performance engineering environments.
- Strong background in structure design, structural analysis, justification, qualification, and verification.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and developing technical talent.
- Demonstrated experience supporting complex structural test campaigns, from preparation and prediction through execution and data interpretation.
- Experience with qualification, certification, and engineering review processes.
- Profound knowledge of space industry standards and methodologies.
- Fluent in English. German, French, or Italian are an asset.
Eligibility Criteria
Candidates should have relevant engineering degrees and extensive experience in aerospace or related fields.
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