Mechanical System Designer

Experience in mechanical design and development for aerospace, automotive, or similarly demanding hardware environments; expectations will scale with level.

Strong experience owning mechanical components or assemblies from concept through detailed design, manufacturing, build, test, and deployment.

Proficiency in CAD and mechanical drawing creation, with the ability to generate clear, manufacturable, and well-controlled hardware definitions.

Strong engineering fundamentals, including statics, strength of materials, basic structural mechanics, tolerance stack-ups, fits, joints, and practical design for real hardware.

Ability to perform and interpret engineering analyses using a combination of first-principles calculations and FEM/FEA tools, with sound judgment on the level of analysis appropriate to the problem.

Experience working across disciplines to integrate mechanical hardware with adjacent systems.

Experience with tolerance analysis, stack-up management, GD&T, interface control, and assembly alignment in tightly constrained hardware environments.

Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and how design decisions affect producibility, cost, quality, schedule, assembly, and inspection.

Ability to operate with ownership in a fast-paced, cross-functional hardware development environment.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially across design, analysis, manufacturing, and integration boundaries.

Direct experience designing aerospace vehicle hardware, propulsion support hardware, fluid system hardware, avionics mechanical packaging, or other highly integrated electromechanical or mechanical systems.

Experience with routed systems and hardware such as pneumatic lines, tubes, fittings, valves, manifolds, brackets, actuator mounts, reservoirs, and pressure-containing assemblies.

Hands-on experience with machining, sheet metal, welded assemblies, bent tube design, machined manifolds, additive manufacturing, composites, or other relevant aerospace fabrication methods.

Familiarity with rapid design-build-test hardware development environments.

Bachelor's or advanced degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related field.