Senior Mechanical Engineer, Actuators & Controls

Skyryse wants to empower anyone, to fly anywhere, in any aircraft, safely and as a highly experienced pilot would. Powered by SkyOS, we automate flight controls and systems management to achieve unmatched safety and eliminate opportunities for human error. We want to make flying as ubiquitous as the road and as safe as the elevator.

SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER, ACTUATORS AND CONTROLS

As a Mechanical Engineer focused on mechanisms, actuators, and controls along with secondary structures -  owning the full lifecycle of key mechanical LRUs (line replaceable units) for our rapidly expanding portfolio of fixed wing and rotorcraft platforms. This includes prototyping, designing, and analyzing manufacture ready instances of electromechanical cockpit flight controls, novel electromechanical actuators, and flight certifiable aircraft interfaces. The role involves collaboration with test pilots, flight control engineers, software engineers and airframe specific experts to determine design criteria and build solutions quickly and effectively. You will be hands-on with each fixed wing and/or rotorcraft model you design, working to bring our vision to life.

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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 gears, shafts, bellcranks, actuator housings, electronics enclosures, various types of motion assemblies, cockpit flight control locations and instrument layouts
• Selection and sizing of related components such as electric motors, potentiometers, LVDTs, RVDTs, gears, ballscrew assemblies, bearings (rollers, needle, tapered, etc), fasteners
• Selection of materials (metal, polymers, elastomers), finishes, and processes while considering operating loads, fatigue, environmental conditions
• Develop assembly procedures for LRUs
• Composite <-> metallic material compatibility, galvanic corrosion
• Ownership of 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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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 (can be in a professional, academic, entrepreneurial, or hobby setting).
• Experience in participating in failure investigations and performing root cause analyses
• Experience with aerospace hardware design

WHY SKYRYSE?

• The opportunity to change the world through improving aviation safety and accessibility 
• Salary Range: $150,000 - $250,000
• Valuable stock option plan
• Heavily subsidized medical, dental and vision plans
• Full-time employees are eligible for 20 days of paid time off (PTO) and 5 sick days annually.  PTO and sick days must be used in accordance with Company policy.
• A company with an ambitious vision, a dynamic work environment, and a team of smart, motivated, and fun to work-with colleagues!