Mechanical Packaging Engineer-Lunar Avionics

Tooling Design Engineer - Lunar Lander Program

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Position Overview:

KODA Technologies is hiring engineers to support one of the nation's most visible commercial-space programs - a lunar lander built under NASA's Human Landing System (HLS) contract. As a Tooling Design Engineer, you'll be part of a team designing the fixtures, mechanical ground support equipment, and handling tools that the customer's engineers and technicians will use to build and integrate flight hardware. The team will deliver complete tooling packages - 3D models, 2D drawings to ASME Y14.5, requirements, design-review content, tool-use instructions, stress analyses, and procurement-support documentation - at a sustained monthly cadence through October 2026, with follow-on potential as the program transitions into build and integration.

Core Responsibilities:

Tool Design Packages

Develop simple tool designs - both preliminary and critical design - including 3D models and 2D drawings to ASME Y14.5 standards, in CREO Parametric and/or CATIA V5/V6. Deliverables are submitted in native CREO (.drw) or CATIA (.CATDrawing) formats.

Tooling Requirements and System Requirements Review (SRR) Content

Author tooling requirements developed from customer-provided specifications. Build the corresponding SRR presentation content in PowerPoint format, one package per tool design.

Design Review (CDR) Content

Build Critical Design Review presentation content for tool designs, in PowerPoint format. Present at customer design reviews when assigned.

Tool Use, Inspection, and Maintenance Instructions

Author tool-use, inspection, and maintenance instructions in Microsoft Word format, one document per tool. These are the documents the customer's technicians will reference on the manufacturing floor - they have to be clear, accurate, and complete.

Procurement Support

Contribute to monthly procurement support reports - supplier-qualification analysis, purchase order tracking, and tooling-procurement statement of work inputs. Engineers with supply-chain experience will lead this deliverable; all engineers contribute design inputs.

Stress Analysis

Perform stress analyses for tools under prescribed loads - hand calculations in Microsoft Excel or MathCAD for simple geometries, ANSYS Mechanical FEA for complex load paths. Engineers with stress backgrounds will lead this deliverable; all engineers are expected to apply basic hand-calc methods to their own designs.

Weekly Technical Reports

Contribute schedule, cost, issue, and risk inputs to the team's weekly technical report to the customer.

Require Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated technical experience.

• Six or more years of mechanical or tooling design experience, with at least three on aerospace, defense, or commercial-space programs.

• Production-level proficiency in CREO Parametric AND/OR CATIA V5/V6. Cross-tool capability is preferred - most senior candidates on the team will have both.

• ASME Y14.5 GD&T proficiency, including tolerance-stack-up application.

• Demonstrated experience producing complete tooling packages - 3D models, 2D drawings, requirements documentation, and tool instructions - at a sustained monthly cadence.

• Familiarity with stress-analysis fundamentals (hand-calc methods at minimum; ANSYS or comparable FEA capability strongly preferred).

• S. person status as defined under ITAR (22 CFR § 120.62).

• Ability to obtain customer-furnished AWS network credentials within standard onboarding timelines.

Desired Qualifications:

• Direct prior experience on NASA HLS, SLS, Artemis, Orion, Boeing EUS, or commercial-space programs (Blue Origin, ULA, SpaceX, Sierra Space, Rocket Lab, Stoke, Relativity).

• Mechanical or Electrical Ground Support Equipment (MGSE / EGSE) tooling background.

• PTC CREO Simulate, CATIA Generative Structural Analysis, or ANSYS certification.

• Familiarity with NASA-STD-5001 (Structural Design Requirements for Spaceflight Hardware) and NASA-STD-5017 (Design and Development Requirements for Mechanisms).

• Aerospace or defense procurement / supplier-qualification experience for those interested in leading procurement-support deliverables.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) credential or equivalent demonstrated PMO experience for those interested in team-lead resp