Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)
Moon Hotel -> The Intergalactic Construction Company of Earth
Mechanical Engineer
About the role
Your product will land on the Moon next year.
You’ll design, build, and test our 2027 Lunar Payload: the one that manufactures humanity’s first bricks on the Moon and deploys an inflatable habitat bladder. This is hands-on, full-lifecycle hardware engineering at a pace most aerospace companies can’t keep up with.
What you’ll do:
- Own the mechanical design of the payload from concept through flight hardware.
- Rapidly prototype, test, break things, and iterate.
- Manage ICD with the lunar lander provider and be the primary point of contact.
- Run and interpret structural/mechanism analysis to support design trades.
What we’re looking for:
- Deep fluency with CAD and FEA tools: you think in 3D and can back it up with analysis.
- Experience designing spaceflight hardware end-to-end (build, test, deploy).
- Comfort with mechanisms: actuators, seals, deployables, pressure systems, end effectors, and more.
- You’re using the latest AI tools every day (i.e., Opus 4.6/GPT 5.4, in appropriate harness) to massively increase your output and do things you otherwise couldn’t.
- You’ve built flight hardware before.
If you want to maximize the probability that humanity becomes interplanetary in your lifetime, apply and share a portfolio of the technical work you’re most proud of.
About the interview
1. Intro call
2. Take-home challenge (24 hours)
3. Onsite in SF
4. Offer
About Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)
GRU builds off-world habitats using in-situ resource utilization technology, turning local material into building material.
We are landing on the Moon in 2027: our first mission will turn lunar regolith into bricks and demonstrate our modular pressurized habitat system. A second mission will begin laying the hotel’s foundation in a lunar cave. A third mission will open the first lunar hotel, targeted 2032.
We don’t stop at Moon hotels. GRU’s long-term plan:
- Build the first hotel on the Moon. GRU solves off‑world surface habitation.
- Build America’s first Moon base: roads, mass drivers, warehouses, and physical infrastructure.
- Repeat on Mars and build the first cities there.
- Own property on the Moon and Mars as these economies grow.
- Reinvest profits into resource utilization systems on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and beyond—reaching our final form: Galactic Resource Utilization.
GRU Space is backed by investors in SpaceX + Anduril, and is part of Nvidia’s Inception program.
