Senior Mechanical Engineer
About The Position
MITRE's Mechanical and Reliability Department provides innovative solutions for electronic prototypes designed for advanced sensing, communication, and navigation systems. Areas of expertise include ground, airborne and shipboard systems. Engineers from the group are critical to all aspects of prototype or system development beginning with conceptual design, continuing through detail design, system integration and test, fabrication, and environmental testing. We provide technical guidance through rigorous analytical, physical, and computational methods with data driven products to enhance decision making and risk management. MITRE's Mechanical and Reliability Department is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to perform mechanical and environmental analyses for ground, airborne and shipboard systems. The successful candidate will: Work with cross-functional technical teams comprised of both in-house and sponsor personnel in the development and evaluation of command-and-control systems. Perform dynamics, structural, and thermofluids analyses at the component, individual item, and system level. Be responsible for deliverables or parts of deliverables to sponsors.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related plus a minimum of 5 years of related experience or or equivalent combination of related education and work experience who can immediately contribute at this job step
- Experience using CAD software and generating and interpreting mechanical drawings
- Experience conducting engineering analyses in the areas of structures, dynamics, and thermofluids, including the application of Finite Element Analysis techniques
- Ability to scope and perform mechanical engineering tasks autonomously
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance
- U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
- Minimum of 4 days a week on-site
Nice To Haves
- Three years of experience and a master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step
- Experience working collaboratively in a team environment and demonstrated excellence and effectiveness of written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with SolidWorks CAD tools
- Experience with ANSYS (e.g. Workbench, APDL, Mechanical, LS-Dyna, CFX, Fluent, Icepak)
- High-level computational skills in large scale simulations, data analysis, and programming
- Demonstrated ability to lead independent research tasks. Experience proposing and conducting technical research projects.
Responsibilities
- Perform mechanical and environmental analyses for ground, airborne and shipboard systems.
- Work with cross-functional technical teams comprised of both in-house and sponsor personnel in the development and evaluation of command-and-control systems.
- Perform dynamics, structural, and thermofluids analyses at the component, individual item, and system level.
- Be responsible for deliverables or parts of deliverables to sponsors.
Benefits
- competitive benefits
- exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth
- a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
