Vice President Structures and Mechanisms
STOKE Space Technologies
A thriving economy in space is needed to make life on Earth more vibrant, sustainable, and equitable. Space technology will enable global access to information, solutions to climate change, answers to global food security, products that transform healthcare, clean energy production, and more. Today, rocket launch options are slow, expensive, and unreliable. Stoke is building the world’s most efficient fully and rapidly reusable rocket designed to fly daily that will radically increase access to space and open up the space economy to safeguard our precious home, Earth.
Description
Fully and rapidly reusable launch vehicles are the only way to sustainably scale the industry. As the Vice President Structures and Mechanisms for Stoke Space, you will lead the growth of the structural engineering discipline and the product execution to build the structures for the Nova Rocket. This includes technical leadership and strategy; ownership of structural engineering guidelines and expectations; and the talent development, growth and pipeline of the organization.
We are a small and motivated team, and you will work with engineers and technicians across disciplines - and across functions with human resources, recruiting, finance, business development, and marketing - to get the job done. You will have the opportunity to help build and test your own hardware, so be ready to pick up a wrench and stand side-by-side with the rest of the team.
You and your team will be responsible for significant primary structure sub-systems of our launch vehicle. This is an incredible opportunity for a growth-minded engineer and team leader who wants to have major impact as we move with unprecedented speed towards first flight.
Qualifications
- 8 years minimum experience in working in aerospace primary structures
- 3 years minimum experience building and leading an engineering team
- Exceptional command of fundamentals
- Demonstrated proficiency with CAD software (NX preferred) and analysis software (ANSYS preferred); ability to talk to multiple examples of both
- Ability to determine appropriate level of work for a problem (from hand calcs to multi-physics finite element solutions) and execute the work accordingly
- Project management experience including developing budgets and schedules, and managing resources
- Familiarity with launch vehicle design desired (cryogenic propellant familiarity preferred)
- Experience with technical mentoring of junior engineers
- Experience building and growing technical organizations
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
Responsibilities
- Manage and grow the Structures engineering team at Stoke
- Mentor and develop your team technically and professionally
- Own on-time delivery of vehicle primary structural components to qualification testing and flight campaigns
- Provide structures technical direction and guidance across multiple vehicle programs
- Work with the management team to set company level goals and objectives
- Build design tools and guidelines that will accelerate development of structural components
- Work side-by-side with manufacturing & test engineers to get your team’s hardware built, tested and integrated onto the vehicle
- Help your team manage the budget, schedule and planning
- Support and model Stoke core values at all times
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance
- 401(k) match
- Paid time off
- Flexible scheduling
- Equity
Compensation
Target Levels:
- Level 6 range: $223,900 - $335,800
Our job posts are intentionally written to attract a wide variety of experience levels, and we make decisions about the right fit on a per-candidate basis.
Your actual level and base salary will be decided based on your specific experience and skill level.
Equal Opportunity
The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including with respect to disability and veteran status. It is committed to compliance with all equal opportunity laws, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and Title VII. It does not discriminate on the basis of nationality, race, citizenship, immigration status, or any other protected class when it comes to employment practices, including hiring.
Employment at the Company is contingent upon satisfactory completion of reference and background checks, and on your ability to prove your identity and authorization to work in the U.S. for the Company. Employees must comply with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services employment verification requirements, and, therefore, they must complete an Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 at the start of employment and re-verify authorization to work periodically.
Separate from this I-9 process, this position entails access to certain technology and technical data that is restricted under U.S. export control laws and regulations. Employment or continued employment may be conditioned on your legal authorization to work with or have access to export control materials as necessary to perform your job.