Mechanical Engineer, Lead

ABOUT THE TEAM

ABOUT THE JOB

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own complete integration and execution of complex products and product families from concept to full rate production
• Drive the work of technical teams through technical leadership, mentorship, and strategic direction
• Drive overall goals for product success through leadership and direction across disciplines
• Identify needs and gaps, then define best practices and standards and deploy those broadly across the organization
• Lead design reviews and drive buy-in from cross-disciplinary partners, serving as a trusted advisor
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to multi-disciplinary teams, shaping project direction and ensuring alignment with organizational goals
• Perform advanced hand calculations and FEA to develop, assess, and optimize designs with engineering judgment appropriate to product maturity
• Build prototypes, define and execute hardware test plans, iterate on designs, and produce authoritative technical documentation summarizing results
• Perform root cause investigations for hardware failures and proactively identify and resolve conflicts in both technical and programmatic challenges
• Balance operational needs across vehicle subsystems while optimizing for development speed, mass, manufacturability, cost, and long-term sustainment
• Lead adoption of new tools, methodologies, and manufacturing methods for step-function improvements
• Mentor engineers across teams and influence organizational technical strategy
• Support critical hardware demonstrations with customers as needed
• Travel to test sites and vendors as needed

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of progressive mechanical/design experience, including 3+ years in technical leadership roles managing engineering teams
• Demonstrated wholistic ownership of challenging technical problems and multiple complete products or product families from concept through production
• Experience scaling and shipping complex products
• Expert CAD skills with exceptional quality suitable as templates and training materials
• Expertise in structures, thermal management, and mechanisms, with depth in electrical integration
• Proven ability to set the standard for technical work within a group
• Expert in standard manufacturing methods with capability to explore adjacent fields, including designing for manufacturability and scale
• Strong engineering judgment to right-size solutions based on product maturity
• Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate the full picture of technical value in terms of finance, impact, and position to the business
• Excellence in delivering clear, complex ideas in writing and speech through polished technical documents, reports, and presentations
• Proven track record of mentoring multiple teams and driving cross-functional initiatives
• Ability to drive technical work through influence and leadership, with potential to transition into people management roles
• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent work experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Expert proficiency in Solidworks or NX, and PLM systems
• Mastery of GD&T application and ability to define standards for others
• Deep expertise in multiple manufacturing methods: CNC machining, composites, sheet metal, injection molding, PCBA integration, with ability to lead adoption of new methods
• Exceptional leadership and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to influence across the organization
• Experience authoring responses to RFIs, proposals to customers and agencies, or white papers
• Extensive experience running qualification campaigns for flight hardware
• Expert-level experience designing for rugged environments
• Strong understanding of electro-mechanical and electrical design concepts
• Significant depth in one or two focus areas of Mechanical Engineering, building towards becoming an expert
• Experience driving technological advancement towards future product families