Mechanical Engineer, Done

📋 Description

• Own the mechanical design of our drone platforms, including airframe, fuselage, wings or rotor
• Make the tradeoffs between weight, strength, aerodynamics, flight time, and payload capacity that
• Integrate propulsion, batteries, avionics, and payloads into the airframe, including packaging
• Perform structural, thermal, and vibration analysis, and use flight and test data to validate and
• Prototype quickly: build, assemble, and iterate on real hardware, and support flight testing and
• Analyze failures and crashes, drive root cause, and turn lessons into design improvements

🎯 Requirements

• BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience designing hardware and shipping products, ideally for drones, UAS, or
• Hands-on experience designing flight vehicles or flight-critical structures, such as airframes
• Strong understanding of what makes an aircraft fly: weight, structures, aerodynamic loads
• Experience designing lightweight structures, including composites, carbon fiber, and
• Experience with design for manufacturing across methods such as CNC machining, composite layup