Red Canyon

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Glendale, California, United States

Full Time

3 minutes ago

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Job description

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

Responsibilities

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

Required:

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

The ideal candidate will have expertise in one or more of the following:

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

We have a fun and talented team of engineers and we are committed to our engineers continued success and development. Included in our employment package are immediate HUBZone bonus, health benefits, profit sharing, referral bonuses, and a generous 401(K) retirement plan. 1099 independent contractor options are also available.

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.