Senior Mechanical Engineer, Actuators
4 weeks ago
Skyryse is revolutionizing aviation by empowering anyone to fly anywhere, safely and as a highly experienced pilot would.
Our team is working on automating flight controls and systems management to achieve unmatched safety and eliminate opportunities for human error.
We are seeking a skilled Mechanical Engineer to join our team and contribute to the development of electromechanical cockpit flight controls, novel electromechanical actuators, and flight certifiable aircraft interfaces.
The ideal candidate will have experience in designing, prototyping, and testing electromechanical systems, as well as collaborating with cross-functional teams to determine design criteria and build solutions quickly and effectively.
Responsibilities:
- Drive designs through concept, prototyping, testing, and production release
- Design, prototype, and test electromechanical actuators, joy-stick assemblies, and related mechanical assemblies and components
- Design, prototype, and test new mechanical items such as gears, shafts, bellcranks, actuator housings, electronics enclosures, and various types of motion assemblies
- Select and size related components such as electric motors, potentiometers, LVDTs, RVDTs, gears, ballscrew assemblies, bearings, and fasteners
- Select materials, finishes, and processes while considering operating loads, fatigue, and environmental conditions
- Develop assembly procedures for LRUs and ensure compatibility with composite metallic materials
- Own 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 on your designs and work with manufacturing partners to ensure manufacturing quality control
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
- 7+ years of professional working experience in a full cycle mechanical engineering role
- Experience with structural static analysis (hand calculations and FEA)
- Experience with common aerospace materials, finishes, and processes
- Experience in production drawing release efforts
- Familiarity with static, fatigue, shock, and vibration analysis
- Familiarity with manufacturing processes
- Hands-on build experience
- Strong understanding of engineering first principles
- In-depth knowledge of GD&T and tolerance stackup analysis
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in personally taking parts through final production release
- Experience in performing vibration/fatigue/shock analysis and test (hand and finite element analysis)
- 10+ years of professional working experience
- High proficiency with Solidworks CAD and FEA packages
- Hands-on hardware experience performing fabrication, assembly, and/or testing
- Experience in participating in failure investigations and performing root cause analyses
- Experience with aerospace hardware design
Why Skyryse?
We offer a competitive salary range of $150,000 - $250,000, valuable stock option plan, heavily subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans, and 20 days of paid time off (PTO) and 5 sick days annually.
Join our team and be part of a dynamic work environment with a team of smart, motivated, and fun-to-work-with colleagues who are passionate about improving aviation safety and accessibility.
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