Who We Are

GITAI is a space robotics company working to reduce the cost of work in space by 100x. Space is no longer defined only by the cost of launch. Satellites, space stations, lunar infrastructure, and defense systems are becoming more capable and more ambitious.

But getting hardware to space is only the first step. The harder problem is doing useful work once it is there. GITAI develops robotic systems for orbital, lunar, and defense applications.

Our robots are designed for tasks such as assembly, inspection, maintenance, construction, and surface operations in environments where human labor is expensive, dangerous, or impractical. To move fast and drive cost down, we keep hardware, software, testing, and integration close together. This allows our team to learn from real tests, shorten development cycles, and reduce dependency on slow external handoffs.

We are still early. The systems, the company, and the market are all being built at the same time. The work is difficult, and many answers are still not written down.

If the work pulls you in, and you want to move it forward with your own hands, GITAI is the right place for you. Your Mission The Mechanical Engineer owns mechanical hardware from concept through test. Space experience is not required, but real hardware experience is.

At GITAI, this is not a narrow design role where work is handed off after CAD is complete. You will take ambiguous hardware needs and turn them into detailed, buildable mechanical designs, then stay responsible as those designs become real parts, prototypes, integrated systems, and tested hardware. This role spans GITAI’s space vehicle and robotic hardware, including spacecraft structures, mechanisms, robotic arms, rovers, propulsion-related hardware, fixtures, test equipment, and ground support equipment.

We welcome strong mechanical engineers from aerospace, defense, automotive, robotics, industrial automation, precision manufacturing, test equipment, or other hardware-heavy industries. The work requires real mechanical design judgment, not just strong 3D CAD skills. You will perform practical design calculations, evaluate loads, stiffness, strength, tolerances, manufacturability, and assembly constraints, and turn those decisions into CAD models, drawings, prototypes, and hardware that can be built, tested, and improved.

You will work close to the hardware. That means supporting fabrication, assembling prototypes on the shop floor, integrating systems, troubleshooting failures, and taking hardware to test sites, including desert and external test facilities when needed. The expectation is simple: you do not just design parts.

You own whether they work. What You’ll Drive Create detailed 3D CAD models, assemblies, drawings, and mechanical design packages that are practical to fabricate, assemble, inspect, test, and maintain.

Requirements

, interfaces, load paths, packaging, assembly sequences, and test configurations.

to workable mechanical concepts, then refine them into detailed designs ready for prototype fabrication or flight-like builds. Support vendor and in-house fabrication by reviewing manufacturability, resolving build issues, updating drawings, and maintaining clean mechanical documentation. Assemble, integrate, inspect, and maintain prototypes and early builds, and feed lessons from the shop floor and test floor back into the design.

Plan and execute mechanical and system-level testing, including operational verification, reliability testing, quality checks, and failure investigation, and use results to drive design improvements.

What We’Re Looking For

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related discipline. 1+ years of relevant experience designing, analyzing, and supporting the manufacturing of electro-mechanical systems or mechanisms.