Senior Engineer, Mechanical (R5482)

About the role

Responsibilities

• Design and integrate mechanical components and subsystems for airborne or ruggedized systems, from concept through production.
• Create 3D CAD models, assemblies, 2D production drawings, BOMs, and release packages.
• Apply GD&T and perform tolerance analyses to ensure fit, function, interchangeability, and inspectability.
• Package electronics, including radios, antennas, PCBAs, and harnessing, within assigned subsystems.
• Design components and assemblies using metallics, plastics, composites, elastomers, adhesives, and other engineering materials.
• Select materials and manufacturing processes based on structural, thermal, environmental, cost, and schedule requirements.
• Design for manufacturing processes including CNC machining, additive manufacturing, injection molding, composite fabrication, sheet metal, and bonded assembly.
• Collaborate with electrical, RF, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and test teams to deliver integrated hardware.
• Present work in design reviews and perform or support structural, thermal, tolerance, and manufacturability analyses.
• Support prototype builds, qualification testing, production integration, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigations.
• Ensure designs meet reliability, manufacturability, inspectability, maintainability, and performance requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering field.
• 5+ years of mechanical design and product-development experience, including ownership of parts or subsystems through production release.
• Strong working knowledge of GD&T and ASME Y14.5, including datum selection, position, profile, form and orientation controls, and design for inspection.
• Experience creating and releasing detailed 2D production drawings for parts and assemblies.
• Proficiency with a production CAD platform such as NX, Creo, CATIA, SolidWorks, or Inventor, including part modeling, assemblies, drawing creation, and revision-controlled release.
• Experience designing hardware with a range of materials, such as metallics, engineering plastics, composites, elastomers, and adhesives.
• Practical design-for-manufacturing experience with multiple processes, such as CNC machining, additive manufacturing, injection molding, composite fabrication, sheet metal, and fastened or bonded assembly.
• Working understanding of material selection, tolerance analysis, manufacturing variation, assembly processes, and inspection methods.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with manufacturing, quality, electrical engineering, supply chain, technicians, suppliers, and machine shops.
• Ability to work independently on assigned tasks and solve design, manufacturing, and integration problems with minimal supervision.
• Experience with Siemens NX and Teamcenter.
• Experience designing airborne, aerospace, defense, or other ruggedized hardware.
• Experience packaging radios, antennas, PCBAs, sensors, connectors, and embedded electronics.
• Familiarity with coaxial and RF cables, wiring harnesses, bend-radius requirements, and connector integration.
• Experience designing composite structures or hybrid composite-metal assemblies.
• Understanding of electronics thermal management, grounding, shielding, and EMI/EMC considerations.
• Familiarity with environmental requirements involving vibration, shock, temperature, corrosion, and ingress protection.
• Experience with ground support equipment, test fixtures, or qualification hardware.
• Hands-on experience supporting prototype builds, production, environmental testing, and field troubleshooting.