Design and Manufacturing Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

MITRE's Mechanical and Reliability Department seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to contribute to the design, development, and maturation of mechanical and electro-mechanical systems from concept through prototype and transition. Key responsibilities include:

• Contribute to the design, development and maturation of mechanical and electro-mechanical systems from concept through prototype and transition.
• Perform design reviews, tolerance stack-up analysis, and risk assessments related to manufacturing and assembly.
• Drive design for manufacturing (DFM) and manufacturability improvements to enable efficient prototype and low-rate production builds.
• Apply knowledge of advanced manufacturing methods such as additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, CNC fabrication, composites, and production-oriented fabrication techniques to prototype development to inform sponsor decisions on low-rate initial production capabilities and capacity.
• Work with cross-functional technical teams comprised of both in-house and sponsor personnel.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with 5 years of related industry experience.
• Experience using computer aided design (CAD) software and generating and interpreting mechanical drawings.
• Experience conducting engineering analyses in the areas of structures, aero/fluid dynamics, vibration and thermodynamics, including the application of Finite Element Analysis techniques.
• Knowledge of traditional and advanced manufacturing processes, tolerancing, material selection, production floor layouts, and design-based quality metrics.
• Ability to scope and perform mechanical engineering tasks autonomously.
• Ability to obtain DoD Secret Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S. and/or PhD in Mechanical Engineering with industry experience.
• Experience working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment and demonstrated effectiveness of written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with SolidWorks CAD tools.
• Experience with ANSYS (e.g. Workbench, APDL, Mechanical, LS-Dyna, CFX, Fluent, Icepak).
• High-level computational skills in large scale simulations, data analysis, and programming.
• Experience interfacing with manufacturing engineers in low and high-rate production environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead independent research tasks. Experience proposing and conducting technical research projects.