Description review

Cascade Space | Senior Mechanical Engineer | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full-time | $150k - $190k + equity

Cascade Space · San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) · back to the listing

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62/100

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88/100

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no confident match

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  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency

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Cascade Space is building ground-based infrastructure to support missions to the moon and beyond. Instead of single large dishes, we're building arrays of dishes combined with a digital beamformer into one large aperture — comparable to a NASA Deep Space Network 34m dish. We raised our seed round last year and this is our first mechanical engineering hire.
You'll own mechanical integration of vendor dish systems with our in-house RF hardware (feeds, LNAs, amplifiers): packaging for ultra-low-noise electronics that has to survive outdoor conditions, alignment/tolerance strategy, and structural/environmental testing. When it's time to stand up our first array, you'll be on-site for deployment and commissioning. Full arc from CAD to field install.
Looking for 4+ years designing and deploying complex hardware systems, experience integrating electronics into outdoor/exposed environments, thermal management of sensitive electronics, precision mechanical assemblies, and owning vendor/fab-shop relationships. RF/antenna experience is a bonus, not required.
Note: US Persons only (ITAR/EAR — some customer datasets are restricted).
Apply: [email protected]
More info: https://www.cascadespace.com/careers/mech-e/

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Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 12 points (from 74 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.