Build Engineer
New York City, NYFull-time$100–120K/yrSeen todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Beyond Reach Labs designs and builds large deployable structures for space. The Build Engineer turns designs into hardware, from early R&D test articles through full-scale prototypes, qualification units, and first flight deployables. The role works hands-on in the lab alongside design, analysis, and test engineers, owning how hardware is built, integrated, and verified.
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Full job description
They say the best deployable is no deployable, but we believe large deployable mechanisms are the future for large infrastructure in space. At Beyond Reach Labs, we are designing and building the largest deployable structures ever flown to space. As an engineering-driven organization, you will be at the forefront of the company's key technology development. As a Build Engineer, you will turn designs into hardware: from early R&D test articles, through full-scale prototypes, to qualification units and first flight deployables. You will work hands-on in the lab and alongside design, analysis and test engineers, owning how our hardware is built, integrated and verified. Key Responsibilities:
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Prototype
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Research & Development
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Qualification
Basic Qualification:
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Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace or manufacturing engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
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1+ years of experience building, integrating or testing mechanical or electromechanical hardware.
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Hands-on skill with hand and power tools, precision measurement and mechanical assembly.
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Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, including GD&T.
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Working knowledge of CAD (for example SolidWorks, NX or Onshape).
Preferred qualifications:
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2+ years of experience building, integrating or testing mechanical or electromechanical hardware.
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Experience building spacecraft or launch vehicle hardware, ideally deployable mechanisms such as booms, antennas, solar arrays or hinges.
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Experience taking hardware through qualification or acceptance testing (vibration, thermal vacuum, shock).
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Experience with composites layup, adhesive bonding or other lightweight structure fabrication.
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Machining, 3D printing or other rapid prototyping skills
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Experience designing tooling and ground support equipment for large assemblies.
Additional Requirements:
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Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to support critical project milestones.
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Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or eligible for authorization under U.S. export regulations.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,801 open Mechanical Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$100–120K/yr
- New York median$100–160K/yr65 salary ranges
- US median$115–187K/yr977 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $110K, is 15% below the New York median midpoint ($130K) — in the middle half of Mechanical Engineering salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 105 open Mechanical Engineering jobs in New York and 1,801 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
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- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Mechanical Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,021 postings).
- Education
- 790 of the 1,801 open Mechanical Engineering jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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