Senior Aero-Mechanical Engineer - Advanced Systems Engineering Integration and Design Optimization

Orb Aerospace; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Orb Aerospace is seeking passionate engineers with over 5 years of experience in aircraft design to join their innovative team in Emeryville, California. The role focuses on developing unconventional air platforms, leveraging advanced design tools, and optimizing multi-disciplinary systems for high-impact aircraft.

We offer an intense, fast-paced environment where your contributions will be crucial to our mission of providing logistics and power solutions globally.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in aircraft design.
• Demonstrated success in building unconventional air platforms.
• Long-term commitment to Orb’s mission.

Responsibilities

• Lead various aspects of aircraft design and analysis.
• Incorporate multi-disciplinary optimization in design processes.
• Engage with all disciplines from conceptual design to flight test.

Skills

Wholistic Aircraft Design

CAD Expertise (Siemens NX, Solid Works, Catia)

Experience in Conceptual Design Tools

Simulation of Loads and Aerodynamic Forces

Multi-Disciplinary Optimization

Tools

Siemens NX

Solid Works

Catia

Job description

US Citizen or Permanent Resident

In‑Person

Fall 2026 Start

5+ Years’ Experience Req. Successful Program Experience

Overview

Join us in returning to a 1940’s design cadence, reducing the cycle time for aircraft design, build and fly – integrating advanced design tools and experimenting with unconventional planforms. We are reindustrializing the Midwest as Michigan’s first airframe prime since the Second World War. We’re leveraging our region’s industrial might and airspace to build aircraft that become decentralized infrastructure. Orb is a small mission‑driven team where your initiative, creativity, and dedication will be used to reach every village on the planet with power, logistics, and communications.

Your Role at Orb

We’re establishing a low‑overhead, fast‑paced, experimental aircraft development environment that allows new design ideas, tools, and processes to be tested and go to market in an entirely new category of aircraft. We’re giving a passionate engineer with a history of designing, optimizing and shepherding aircraft cradle‑to‑grave an opportunity to test their ideas in the interests of building the best aircraft to have the highest impact on the greatest number of people. You should have a passion for efficient, multifunctional teams and the experience to lead others in the interested of rapid execution on exciting new air platforms.

If you’re ready to take ownership, embrace complexity, and thrive in a role where your work truly matters, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Aircraft Design, Configuration, Analysis, and Trade Studies
• Engineering First Principles Driven Multi‑Disciplinary Systems Engineering from RF to Propulsion and Structures
• Spool up Aircraft Design Tools Like CFD
• Incorporate Multi‑Disciplinary Optimization and Establish Design Tools / Processes
• Incorporate With Every Discipline from Conceptual Design to Flight Test

Desired Skills And Qualifications

• Demonstrated Experience in Wholistic Aircraft Design, Aero, Mechanical, and Systems Integration
• Demonstrated Success in Building Unconventional Air Platforms
• Long Term Commitment to Orb’s Mission
• Expert in CAD (E.G. Siemens NX, Solid Works, Catia or Similar)
• Expert in Simulation of Loads and Aerodynamic Forces
• Experienced in Conceptual Design Tools and Multi‑Disciplinary Optimization

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