Hypersonic Avionics Packaging Engineer

Stratolaunch; California, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Paid Maternity and Parental Leave

401(k) match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Stratolaunch is seeking a level II, Sr-, or Staff-level Mechanical Engineer to support the development and improvement of air-launched, hypersonic flight vehicle avionics systems and units. This role requires working within a multi-disciplined group to generate requirements, design, analyze, manufacture, test, and integrate avionics systems.

An ideal candidate has significant electronics/avionics packaging and basic structural and thermal analyses experience.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of, and experience with, electronics packaging, mechanical design, mechanical manufacturing, avionics manufacturing, and/or aircraft systems
• Significant experience with electronics/avionics packaging
• Experience performing fundamental structural, heat transfer, and thermal hand calcs and basic analyses
• Experience with metallic structures design, analysis, and manufacturing
• Experience with technical aerospace work, including vendors
• Experience with risk management and critical path workflow
• Excellent written & verbal communication
• Ability to acquire and maintain a security clearance
• Ability to work on your own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and work with a diverse team of mechanical, avionics, and manufacturing engineers
• Perform and/or support requirements development or maturation for avionics systems and units
• Design electronic enclosures for avionics components and create 3D CAD models
• Perform structural, heat transfer and thermal hand calcs and basic analyses simulations
• Create production drawings and coordinate with machine shops and production teams to ensure designs are manufacturable
• Support manufacturing to ensure units installed appropriately
• Support test planning, perform failure analysis, and support hardware and software qualification and flight testing
• Develop and optimize packaging processes to improve yield and reliability, setting process monitors and pass/fail metrics
• Prepare content for, and present at, design and test readiness reviews
• Regular and comprehensive communication to program Avionics, Structures and Manufacturing Lead, as appropriate
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

Skills

electronics packaging

mechanical design

aerospace experience

risk management

team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

ABET-accredited program

Tools

Siemens NX

Teamcenter

SolidWorks

JIRA

GIT

JAMA

Job description

Stratolaunch is seeking a level II, Sr-, or Staff-level Mechanical Engineer to support the development and improvement of air-launched, hypersonic flight vehicle avionics systems and units. This role requires working within a multi-disciplined group to generate requirements, design, analyze, manufacture, test, and integrate avionics systems.

An ideal candidate has significant electronics/avionics packaging and basic structural and thermal analyses experience.