Mechanical Engineer, Mechanisms

Skyryse • El Segundo, CA

125d • $130,000 - $180,000

About The Position

As a Mechanical Engineer focused on mechanisms, you will be owning the full lifecycle of key mechanical LRUs (line replaceable units) for our rapidly expanding portfolio of fixed wing and rotorcraft platforms. This includes prototyping, designing, and analyzing manufacture ready instances of electromechanical cockpit flight controls, novel electromechanical actuators, and flight certifiable aircraft interfaces. The role involves collaboration with test pilots, flight control engineers, software engineers and airframe specific experts to determine design criteria and build solutions quickly and effectively. You will be hands-on with each fixed wing and/or rotorcraft model you design, working to bring our vision to life.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• 3+ years of professional working experience in a full cycle mechanical engineering role.
• Experience with structural static analysis (hand calculations and FEA).
• In-depth knowledge of GD&T and tolerance stackup analysis.
• Experience in production drawing release efforts.
• Familiarity with static, fatigue, shock and vibration analysis.
• Hands on build experience.
• Strong understanding of engineering first principles.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in personally taking parts through final production release.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience building hardware or have a passion for contributing to a work product that operates in the real world.
• Experience in performing vibration/fatigue/shock analysis and test (hand and finite element analysis).
• 5+ years of professional working experience.
• High proficiency with Solidworks CAD and FEA packages.
• Hands-on hardware experience performing fabrication, assembly and/or testing (can be in a professional, academic, entrepreneurial, or hobby setting).
• Experience in participating in failure investigations and performing root cause analyses.
• Experience with aerospace hardware design.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype and test electromechanical actuators, control stick assemblies, and related mechanical assemblies and components.
• Design, prototype and test new mechanical items such gears, shafts, bellcranks, actuator housings, electronics enclosures, various types of motion assemblies, cockpit flight control locations and instrument layouts.
• Selection and sizing of related components such as electric motors, potentiometers, LVDTs, RVDTs, gears, ballscrew assemblies, bearings, fasteners.
• Ownership of detailed drawing layouts, geometric tolerancing and dimensioning.
• Utilize 3D modeling and 2D drafting packages to deliver detailed designs with considerations for production and test.
• Perform tolerance stackups, hand stress and kinematic calculations, motor and gear-train analysis, FEA, and CAD to ensure all hardware meets or exceeds external and customer needs.
• Perform DFM (design for manufacturability) on your designs and work with manufacturing partners to ensure manufacturing quality control.

Benefits

• Valuable stock option plan.
• Heavily subsidized medical, dental and vision plans.
• Full-time employees are eligible for 20 days of paid time off (PTO) and 5 sick days annually.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees