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Mechanisms Flight Engineer

AST SpaceMobile · Lanham, Maryland, United States

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
87 days
AST SpaceMobile's roles stay open a median of 87 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
1% of AST SpaceMobile's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at AST SpaceMobile
high
231 stale, 6 reposted of 231 open
Hiring momentum
268 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-29

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from AST SpaceMobile's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for AST SpaceMobile.

About this role

The Mechanisms Flight Engineer will focus on the verification and operational readiness of spacecraft deployment and actuation systems. Daily tasks include building and maintaining mechanisms, performing functional checkouts, executing flight operations procedures, and troubleshooting issues in the lab. The role requires collaboration with various engineering teams to ensure successful mission execution and involves hands-on work with hardware in both lab and cleanroom environments.

Our read on this posting2.2out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of AST SpaceMobile as an employer.

What you need

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related engineering discipline
  • Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in spacecraft integration and test, flight hardware operations, mission operations, or related engineering disciplines involving mechanism control systems, actuators, or complex electromechanical systems
  • Experience with electronics bring-up, mechanism actuation and control, and electrical troubleshooting using laboratory instrumentation
  • Experience developing automated test procedures and scripts (Python preferred) for functional verification, integration testing, or operational validation
  • Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, interface control documents (ICDs), and engineering drawings
  • Experience performing connector verification, harness validation, and electrical interface testing

Nice to have

  • Direct experience supporting spacecraft mechanisms, flat sat environments, spacecraft integration and test (I&T), or mission operations
  • Experience commanding and monitoring deployment or actuation events through telemetry and command interfaces
  • Experience with motor drive and actuator control systems, including brushed DC, brushless DC, and stepper motors, encoders, and closed-loop positioning systems
  • Experience with spacecraft commissioning activities, deployment operations, sequence validation, timeline verification, or ground-segment interfaces
  • Experience supporting anomaly investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective action implementation

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Role requires hands-on work in lab and cleanroom environments
  • Willingness to support occasional nights, weekends, and mission-critical operations is necessary

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Listed by AST SpaceMobile on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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