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Staff Mechanical Engineer owning mechanical architecture and qualification of plasma-enabled antenna systems. Developing advanced communications hardware for defense, aerospace, and commercial users.
Responsibilities:
- Own the mechanical architecture for advanced antenna, plasma-device, electronics, and communications-system hardware.
- Lead mechanical design reviews, establish analysis and documentation standards, and guide decisions involving performance, risk, cost, schedule, and manufacturability.
- Define modular product architectures from laboratory prototypes to fieldable systems and future product variants.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across multidisciplinary programs.
- Create and maintain CAD models, production drawings, GD&T schemes, tolerance analyses, bills of material, and configuration-controlled design documentation.
- Perform or direct thermal and structural analyses for electronics, antenna assemblies, plasma devices, and environmental loads.
- Select materials and joining methods for high voltage, RF exposure, thermal cycling, vacuum or controlled environments, and rugged use.
- Engineer interfaces involving ceramics, metals, seals, brazed or bonded joints, precision alignment, thermal expansion, shock, vibration, and fatigue.
- Drive hardware iteration through prototype, integration, environmental test, qualification, and design release.
- Design fixtures and test articles; support instrumentation, assembly, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.
- Define test procedures and acceptance criteria and correlate thermal and structural predictions with measured hardware behavior.
- Apply DFM and DFA principles while preserving RF, plasma, thermal, structural, and serviceability requirements.
- Lead technical engagement with machine shops, joining and brazing vendors, additive manufacturers, and contract manufacturing partners.
- Review quotes, supplier capabilities, first articles, inspection results, nonconformances, and corrective actions.
- Establish repeatable assembly, inspection, quality, and configuration-management processes.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of relevant mechanical product-development experience, including technical ownership of complex electromechanical hardware through design, build, integration, and test.
- Advanced proficiency with a modern 3D CAD platform, production drawings, GD&T, and tolerance analysis.
- Strong command of thermal management, structural mechanics, materials selection, and manufacturing processes.
- Demonstrated ability to lead design reviews, mentor engineers, communicate technical risk, and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
- Hands-on experience with experimental hardware and disciplined technical documentation.
- Ability to meet requirements associated with work on U.S. government and national-security programs.
- Experience with antenna systems, RF electronics packaging, aerospace hardware, high-voltage equipment, vacuum systems, or plasma devices.
- Experience with ceramics, metal-ceramic interfaces, brazing, adhesives, seals, coatings, or high-temperature assemblies.
- Proficiency with finite-element thermal or structural analysis and model-to-test correlation.
- Experience supporting environmental qualification, including shock, vibration, temperature, ingress, or related testing.
- Experience in an early-stage company, rapid-prototyping organization, defense program, or SBIR/STTR environment.
- Active U.S. security clearance or eligibility to obtain one.
Benefits:
- Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
- Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.
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