Lead Mechatronics Actuation Engineer — Flight Systems

Aeon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Lunch provided

Snacks & beverages

Team events

Job summary

Aeon is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer - Actuation to own electromechanical subsystems on our tactical missile platform in Austin, TX. You will mature existing designs, qualify them for production, and lead new actuation and motion control work on future programs.

You'll size hardware, build test stands, run tests, write reports, and drive manufacturability with the shop and supply chain while maintaining cost targets for high-rate production.

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing electromechanical actuation hardware that shipped.
• Strong grounding in servo and motion control fundamentals, including the ability to size a motor and drivetrain and defend the numbers.
• Experience carrying a design through qualification and into production, not just through first article.
• Hands-on test experience: instrumentation, DAQ, and debugging hardware that misbehaves.
• Comfort working from incomplete requirements and setting your own priorities.
• CAD and PLM fluency (NX and Teamcenter preferred).
• Missile, munitions, UAS, robotics, or automotive actuation background.
• Must be a U.S. person under ITAR

Responsibilities

• Mature existing control actuation hardware from working prototype to qualified, producible design, including tolerance stackups, freeplay and precision budgets, and margin against launch and flight environments.
• Own the mechanical to electrical interface: packaging, connectors, harnessing, and sensor integration in a volume‑constrained airframe under high‑g launch loads.
• Design and build test infrastructure, then use the telemetry to characterize precision, bandwidth, stiffness, and thermal margin, and to chase down behavior that doesn’t match the model.
• Run qualification: vibration, shock, thermal, and life testing, with the test plans and reports that go with them.
• Drive design for manufacturability with our machine shop and supply chain so parts scale past prototype volumes at cost targets that hold up in mass production.
• Lead clean sheet electromechanical design on new programs as they spin up.]
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• COMPANY NAME: AeonKEY POINTS: electromechanical actuation ownership, missile platform, high-rate production readiness
• <p>Aeon is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer - Actuation to own electromechanical subsystems on our tactical missile platform in Austin, TX. You will mature existing designs, qualify them for production, and lead new actuation and motion control work on future programs.</p><p>You'll size hardware, build test stands, run tests, write reports, and drive manufacturability with the shop and supply chain while maintaining cost targets for high-rate production.</p><p>This full-time, in-person role offers hands-on design leadership in a small, fast-paced team committed to solving hard engineering problems with rapid iteration and clear ownership.</p>

Skills

Actuation design

Servo & motion control

CAD/PLM NX/Teamcenter

Tools

NX

Teamcenter

Job description

Aeon is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer - Actuation to own electromechanical subsystems on our tactical missile platform in Austin, TX. You will mature existing designs, qualify them for production, and lead new actuation and motion control work on future programs.

You'll size hardware, build test stands, run tests, write reports, and drive manufacturability with the shop and supply chain while maintaining cost targets for high-rate production.