Mechanical Engineer- Fleet Operations & Reliability

Northwood Space
Los Angeles
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 100,000 - 175,000 annuallyFunction: Transportation & Fleet OperationsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Incident response","Root cause analysis","Project management","Communication","Consensus building"]

Own uptime and performance for a global fleet of phased-array ground station antennas. Operate and grow a Network Operations Center by monitoring site health, interpreting telemetry, and driving rapid incident response. Lead field deployment campaigns for remote sites, troubleshoot and perform root-cause analysis across RF/power/networking/mechanical subsystems, and partner with product/manufacturing/test to improve reliability. Also scale contractor and partner operations, including SLAs and maintenance strategies.

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Northwood Space
Northwood Space
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Mechanical Engineer- Fleet Operations & Reliability

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Job Summary

Own uptime and performance for a global fleet of phased-array ground station antennas. Operate and grow a Network Operations Center by monitoring site health, interpreting telemetry, and driving rapid incident response. Lead field deployment campaigns for remote sites, troubleshoot and perform root-cause analysis across RF/power/networking/mechanical subsystems, and partner with product/manufacturing/test to improve reliability. Also scale contractor and partner operations, including SLAs and maintenance strategies.
Location: Los Angeles
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Transportation & Fleet Operations

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own fleet uptime and performance by deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting antennas, and writing analyses on performance trends and uptime data.
  • •Operate and grow the Network Operations Center by monitoring site health, interpreting telemetry, sending commands/configurations, and driving rapid detection and response.
  • •Lead hardware deployment campaigns at remote sites, acting as the on-site point of contact for deployments and site checkouts from pre-deploy through first contact.
  • •Investigate and troubleshoot failures with root-cause analysis, implementing fixes to reduce recurrence and developing deep expertise in RF, power, networking, or mechanical subsystems.
  • •Scale the global contractor ecosystem by sourcing, contracting, and onboarding regional partners and defining maintenance/sparing strategies and SLAs.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 100,000 - 175,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRetirement SavingsPaid Holidays

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related engineering discipline.
  • •Experience building, testing, operating, or diagnosing complex electrical or mechanical systems.
  • •Comfort writing and running code (e.g., Python, SQL, or other scripting languages).
  • •Experience operating hardware systems in a live environment, including interpreting telemetry and troubleshooting in real time.
  • •Proficiency in 2D or 3D CAD for modeling and/or drawing creation.
Experience:Hardware
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Incident responseRoot cause analysisProject managementCommunicationConsensus building
Tech Stack:PythonSQLCADTelemetryRFNetworking

Eligibility

Nationality:US National

Company Brief

Northwood Space
Builds modern, scalable ground infrastructure and phased-array antenna systems to improve satellite-to-Earth communications, providing rapidly deployable ground stations and networking for commercial and government space missions.
Industry: Space Technology
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 2023
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