Advanced Airframes – Senior Mechanical Engineer

Advanced Airframes – Senior Mechanical Engineer

Requirements

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM preferred) and a minimum of 5 years of prior engineering experience or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years’ experience.
• 5 years’ experience in mechanical design, or development, and/or test, preferably of defense-related components or systems
• Experience with CAD (Computer aided Drafting) design tools
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• You will design, integration, and test of mechanical-focused hardware using computer-aided design, mechanical analyses, and consistent coordination and communication across engineering teams to ensure successful hardware performance, usually demonstrated through flight tests.
• You may also include leading small teams in the completion of above tasks.
• You will work across engineering disciplines to propose, design, develop, integrate, and test hardware within the Advanced Airframes mechanical design department.
• Contribute to one or more of our contract-funded and independent research efforts, each of which is in a different phase of development (proposal, design, and integration/test).
• You are generally assigned to one effort at a time but may work multiple efforts over the course of several years.
• Communicate across disciplines, working with engineering team members and suppliers to analyze, model, and document the design technical data package (TDP) and its capabilities and compliance to requirements.
• Work under limited supervision and act as the responsible engineer often in a project management role over entire subsystems within an effort. This often requires the ability to direct, delegate and review the work of other engineers.
• Coach and review work of early career professionals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master of Science (MS) in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace, Engineering Science, Math, or other Engineering disciplines
• 8+ years of experience in mechanical design, development, and/or test, preferably of defense-related components or systems
• DoD Secret or Top-Secret Clearance
• Computer-aided Design (CAD) experience in Creo Parametric and Windchill
• Experience with thermal and structural analyses or with analysts to specify requirements and design to environments
• Demonstrated collaboration with cross-disciplined teams, using trust, respect, and innovation to drive results towards a shared vision
• Experience with effective communication (written and verbal) during collaboration with others to document design actions and results, to perform trade studies, and to communicate with program management and customers through presentations and reports
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for technical analysis, data sorting/plotting, and technical documentation
• Experience in airframe development, electronics packaging, mechanisms, for missiles or similar applications
• Understanding of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), basic tolerance analyses, and drawing practices and interpretation for mechanical hardware
• Ability to work autonomously with limited oversight