Senior Mechanical Engineer — Lead End-to-End Design
Key Skills
Job Description
As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will take technical ownership of mechanical design activities across complex projects. You will drive designs from early trade-offs to detailed release, ensure high engineering quality, and mentor other engineers, while working closely with multidisciplinary teams. What you’ll do Lead mechanical design from concept, trade-offs and analysis to detailed design and release. Ensure designs meet requirements for manufacturability, reliability and integration. Contribute to mechanical aspects of thermal-related topics (interfaces, housings, conduction/insulation design choices). Run and participate in design reviews, risk mitigation and technical decision-making. Guide and mentor junior/medior engineers and help raise team standards (documentation, reviews, ways of working). BSc/MSc in Mechanical Engineering (or similar) 5+ years of relevant mechanical engineering experience after graduation. Experience mentoring and supporting team members. Proven ability to own a design scope end-to-end and align stakeholders Strong Skills In Requirements-driven Engineering, Documentation And Design Verification Nice to have: experience in high-reliability product development environments (e.g., aerospace, high-tech, automotive, semicon)
Core Responsibilities
Lead mechanical design from concept and trade-off analysis through detailed design and release, ensuring requirements, manufacturability, reliability, and integration needs are met. Contribute to thermal-related mechanical design, participate in reviews and risk mitigation, make technical decisions, and mentor engineers while improving team standards.
Requirements
Requires a BSc or MSc in Mechanical Engineering or a similar field and at least five years of relevant post-graduation experience. Candidates should have experience mentoring team members, owning design scopes end-to-end, aligning stakeholders, and applying requirements-driven engineering, documentation, and design verification; high-reliability product experience is a plus.
About ISISPACE Group
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Company size: 51-200 employees
ISISPACE Group is a vertically integrated small satellite company, focused on providing high value, cost-effective space solutions by making use of the latest innovative technologies. As one of Europe’s leaders in the nanosatellite domain, ISISPACE offers small satellite missions for a broad range of customers and applications with a strong focus on in-orbit testing, climate action and security. In addition, ISISPACE provides a select range of its products and services for third-party satellite developers, including satellite power systems, launch equipment and rideshare launch services. Headquartered in the Netherlands, ISISPACE Group employs about 100 specialist employees with a background in space technology and engineering and the company operates from two different sites in the Netherlands (Delft) and South Africa (Somerset West). The company’s core competencies lie in the application of space systems engineering in combination with an expertise in the following technical areas: radiofrequency systems and payloads, deployable systems and hold-down and release mechanisms, attitude determination systems, and embedded systems. We are growing and looking for people. If you are interested to join our team, please check out our vacancies at https://www.isispace.nl/careers.