Structures & Mechanisms Engineer — Aerospace

TelebortiX; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

TeleBortiX in Bengaluru, India is looking for a Structural Design Engineer to focus on developing primary airframe structures and mechanisms for advanced airborne systems. Candidates should have a strong background in structural design, with experience in CAD systems like SolidWorks and FEA tools.

The successful candidate will produce release-quality drawings, lead structural tests, and collaborate with the engineering team on cutting-edge aerospace projects. An engineering degree in a relevant field and 4-9 years of experience are required.

Qualifications

• 4-9 years in structural design and analysis for aircraft or adjacent domains.
• Experience with CAD drafting to ASME Y14.5 / ISO 1101.
• Hands-on experience designing structures for unmanned aircraft.

Responsibilities

• Design and analyze primary structures for wings and fuselage.
• Produce release-quality CAD models and engineering drawings.
• Perform static and fatigue analysis and manage structural test campaigns.

Skills

Proficiency in SolidWorks

Experience with ANSYS

Hands-on experience in structural design

Understanding of FEA

Education

B.Tech / M.Tech in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Automotive Engineering

Tools

CATIA

NX

Creo

Job description

Overview

TeleBortiX is building state-of-the-art airborne systems. Your primary skill cluster is airframe structures and mechanisms: fuselage, wing, tail, and landing-gear structural design, plus the mechanisms and actuation systems for control surfaces (ailerons, flaps, rudders, elevators), VTOL motor tilt / swing linkages where present, doors, and payload mountings.

Hybrid structural design depth — both composite-primary and metallic — is central to this role. On composites: laminate optimisation, ply-by-ply analysis, bolted and bonded joint design, damage tolerance against coupon-validated allowables. On metallics: aluminum alloy and temper selection (7075, 2024, 6061), machining versus sheet-metal-versus-extrusion trade-offs, fastener bearing / shear-out / net-section checks, hot-spot fatigue at stress concentrations, and the role of doublers, fittings, and machined-from-billet frames. Across both, the integration of mechanisms without compromising primary load paths.

Mechanism design - actuator sizing, linkage kinematics, stiffness and free-play budgets, fatigue life under high cycle counts, and the structural design of high-inertia VTOL tilt / swing mechanisms that move propulsion units through the transition envelope.

Your credible secondary skill cluster is CAD craft and engineering drawing release. You will produce release-quality CAD models and drawings to ASME Y14.5 / ISO 1101 GD&T yourself, with disciplined revision control and a clean ECN / ECO process. A dedicated Lead CAD Engineer role exists in the team plan; until that role is filled, you carry the drawing-release function.

This role takes the aero loads contract from the Aerodynamics Lead and the materials allowables from the Materials & Processes Lead. You translate them into a structurally sound, manufacturable airframe with all moving systems integrated.

This is a hands-on architect role with extensive analysis depth. You will scope and review vendor work on detailed CAD, FEA, fabrication, and structural test — and you will own the architecture, the loads integration, the mechanism design, and the drawing release.

Key Responsibilities

• Take the aero loads contract from the Aerodynamics Lead and produce primary structural sizing for wing, fuselage, tail, and landing gear across the flight envelope (gust, manoeuvre, ground, landing, asymmetric prop, hard-over actuator).
• Design and FEA-analyse primary structures — composite, metallic, or hybrid — including wing box, spars, fuselage frames, longerons, attachment fittings, ribs. Make material-choice trade-offs explicit and defensible.
• Design secondary structures: fairings, doors, mounts, payload interfaces, access panels.
• Perform static, fatigue, and damage-tolerance analysis to coupon-validated allowables (composites) and published handbook data (metallics); correlate against coupon, element, sub-component, and full-airframe test articles.
• Design control-surface actuation: ailerons, flaps, rudders, elevators — hinges, linkages, servo mounts, push-pull rods. Specify actuator selection (with Power & Energy Systems Lead), stiffness budgets, and free-play limits.
• Design VTOL motor actuation mechanisms — tilt or swing linkages, structural integration, transition-load handling, vibration-coupling mitigation.
• Design landing gear — skids, fixed gear, or retractable gear depending on platform; energy absorption, side-load capacity, retraction kinematics where applicable. Landing-gear work is typically metallic-primary; expect to work in 7075 / 4130 / titanium for high-load fittings.
• Produce CAD models and engineering drawings to ASME Y14.5 / ISO 1101 GD&T; maintain a clean release process and revision control.
• Own the structural test campaign: coupons, elements, sub-components, full-airframe static and fatigue tests.
• Partner with Materials & Processes Lead on material selection, layup, machining, and joint design; partner with Manufacturing & Test Lead on tooling, fixturing, and build sequence; partner with Power & Energy Systems Lead on motor-mount loads and thermal interaction.

What we're looking for

Candidates must meet at least four of the six criteria below to apply.

• Formal engineering qualification — B.Tech / M.Tech in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Automotive Engineering — OR demonstrated equivalent technical capability through portfolio, published work, or prior shipped engineering.
• 4-9 years in structural design and analysis for aircraft, UAV, automotive chassis, wind blades, satellites, or motorsport chassis. Aerospace airframe experience is preferred — but we explicitly welcome strong candidates from these adjacent domains where the discipline transfers cleanly.
• You have owned at least one engineered structure or interface past test — primary airframe, chassis, blade, fuselage section, or comparable — delivered to deployment or customer hand-off. Either composite-primary or metallic-primary work counts.
• Working proficiency in at least one of SolidWorks, CATIA, NX, or Creo, AND in at least one FEA suite (ANSYS, Abaqus, HyperWorks / OptiStruct / RADIOSS, NASTRAN). Comfortable producing release-quality drawings to ASME Y14.5 / ISO 1101.
• Genuine ownership mindset — you scope, integrate, analyse, test, and iterate; you don't wait to be told what to do next.
• You have hands-on experience designing structures or mechanisms for fixed-wing or multi-rotor unmanned aircraft.

Note: Candidates whose skills or qualifications fall short of the criteria above may still apply if their interests are strongly aligned with TeleBortiX's vision. Make the case in your application note.

Strongly preferred

• Composite-primary airframe FEA: laminate stacking, ply drop-offs, free-edge stress analysis, bolted and bonded composite joint design.
• Metallic-primary airframe FEA: thin-walled stiffened structures, aluminum alloy and temper selection (7075-T6, 2024-T3, 6061-T6), bolted aluminum joints with bearing / shear-out / net-section checks, hot-spot fatigue analysis on stress concentrations.
• Damage tolerance and fatigue analysis on primary structures — rainflow counting, S-N curves for composites and metallics, no-growth or slow-growth design philosophy, crack-growth analysis where applicable.
• Working knowledge of CMH-17 (composites) and MMPDS / MIL-HDBK-5 (metallics) as primary references; comfort with classical hand calculations from Bruhn, Roark, or Niu.
• Mechanism design for high-cycle-count, high-inertia systems — tilt-rotor or tilt-wing transition mechanisms, retract gear, complex linkage trains.
• VTOL-specific structural integration — transition-load handling, motor-mount design under combined thrust and gyroscopic loads, vibration-coupling mitigation.
• GD&T fluency beyond surface compliance with ASME Y14.5 — knows when each tolerance type is appropriate; can run a tolerance stack-up from scratch.
• Hands-on layup, machining, sheet-metal, or shop time — understands what tolerances are achievable in carbon, aluminum, and steel, and what is not.
• Familiarity with PLM / PDM systems (Teamcenter, Windchill, 3DEXPERIENCE, SolidWorks PDM) and disciplined ECN / ECO release process.
• Secondary depth in actuator selection and electromechanical actuation — this role significantly requires actuation expertise, we treat strong actuation-side candidates seriously.

Tools & standards

Org Structure

You will be reporting directly to the Director, Engineering.

Fractional Composites Advisor (5-10 hrs/month) may be allocated to you for monthly design reviews on composite structures, allowables strategy, and joint qualification. Metallic structural design is supported through standard references (MMPDS, MIL-HDBK-5), classical handbooks (Bruhn, Niu, Roark), and direct collaboration with the Materials & Processes Lead

You will work closely with our Aerodynamics Lead (loads contract, configuration), Materials & Processes Lead (material selection, layup, machining, joint design), Power & Energy Systems Lead (motor-mount loads, vibration coupling, thermal interaction), Manufacturing & Test Lead (tooling, fixturing, build sequence, structural test), and the external avionics team (control-surface command interface).

Your primary skill ownership in the team is airframe structures and mechanisms. Your secondary ownership is CAD craft.

About TeleBortiX

Our engineering team is small & multi-skilled.

We hire for skills, not for job titles. Every engineer here owns one primary cluster and a credible secondary.

Location, compensation, and how to apply

Compensation: Commensurate with experience; equity component negotiable.

To apply: Send in your CV and a note on an interesting structural or mechanism design challenge you have solved — what were the loads or kinematic constraints, what was your approach, what would you do differently now.