Senior Mechanical Engineer

1 day ago


El Segundo, California, United States Skyryse Full time
About Skyryse

Skyryse is a company that aims to revolutionize aviation by making it safer and more accessible. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to fly anywhere, safely and as a highly experienced pilot would.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Mechanical Engineer - Actuators and Controls to join our team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for designing, prototyping, and testing electromechanical actuators, joy-stick assemblies, and related mechanical assemblies and components.

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
  • 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 (design for manufacturability) 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?

At 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. We are a company with an ambitious vision, a dynamic work environment, and a team of smart, motivated, and fun-to-work-with colleagues.



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