Mechanical Design Engineer (US Citizenship Required)

Job Summary

The Mechanical Design Engineer role is for someone with experience in small, efficient, and low mass design. You work efficiently and thrive on difficult challenges, often doing the impossible by finding novel solutions. You want to be in an environment where continuous learning is not only encouraged – but also expected. You want to be a top-level contributor who will take ownership of their role and projects. You are passionate about quality – but more importantly the customer experience and ensuring this is the best it can be.

This position will be responsible for design, test, and release of highly reliable, light weight structural designs and mechanisms for drone vehicles, payloads, and ground station components.

Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Utilize your design skillset to produce lightweight structural design and materials to design key components and structures for our current generation unmanned systems.
• Optimize for aerodynamic profiles and efficiencies.
• Utilize Finite Element Analysis (FEA), experiments, and rapid prototyping to design products for durability, performance, and manufacturing quality.
• Develop and conduct tests to validate design across full operational capability envelope and environment.
• Deliver market leading designs with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) / Design for Assembly (DFA) methods and techniques.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills; active collaboration with team leads, management, and other team members is expected.
• Take ownership of assigned tasks to generate specific designs and outcomes; owns and drives meetings as applicable.
• Coordinate with suppliers during development and production; incidental travel may be required.
• Coordinate with production staff to provide training, MTRs, work instruction review, and troubleshooting of design issues.
• Create and control design data from concept to product sustainment; support engineering change processes within Teledyne FLIR and with government customers as required.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering required.
• 2+ years of professional experience in mechanical design of weight and size sensitive assemblies and components or equivalent experience in an advanced degree.
• Demonstratable part and assembly design experience: ownership of designs from inception to sustainment.
• Strong analytical and empirical skills with experience in technologies that can be successfully applied to drone developments.
• Understanding of PDM tools and configuration control practices.
• Experience with battery, motor, and/or UAV propulsion systems preferred.
• Expertise with Solidworks 3D modeling, drawing, and simulation software is strongly preferred.
• Experience working on technical projects and teams preferred.

About Teledyne FLIR Defense

Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to supporting critical missions with an exciting range of cutting-edge technologies. Our products include advanced surveillance sensors, unmanned air and ground vehicles, sensing devices used to detect chemicals, biological agents, radiation and explosives, and a host of other solutions that help warfighters, first responders, and search-and-rescue teams do their jobs better.

We're looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense and Public Safety industries. If you’re mission-driven to globally collaborate on solutions that can change the battlefield and save lives, we invite you to explore our current opportunities.