Tooling Design Engineer

Tooling Design Engineer

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Were a small business making a big impact on national-priority missions in missile defense hypersonics DoD space and civil space. At KODA youll find:

• Competitive pay & great benefits
• Career growth & professional development
• A culture of trust integrity and teamwork

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Position Overview:

KODA Technologies is hiring engineers to support one of the nations most visible commercial-space programs - a lunar lander built under NASAs Human Landing System (HLS) contract. As a Tooling Design Engineer youll be part of a team designing the fixtures mechanical ground support equipment and handling tools that the customers 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 customers 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 teams weekly technical report to the customer.

Require Qualifications:

• Bachelors 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 responsibilities.
• Experience with PTC Windchill or Siemens Teamcenter PLM.
• Experience working in a remote-first engineering team across multiple time zones.

Clearance & Access Requirements: and the ability to pass a background check

Schedule: This position is a remote position. It may entail some travel for design reviews and a visit to the customer facility. This position is a six- month task.

KODA Technologies Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex gender identity sexual orientation pregnancy status as a parent national origin disability (physical or mental) family medical history or genetic information political affiliation military service or other non-merit based factors. If you are unable to complete this application due to a disability contact to ask for an accommodation or an alternative application process.

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