Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Autonomous Flight

Telemetry Today LLC; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401K savings plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Skydio is seeking a senior mechanical engineer to design parts and assemblies for aircraft and related systems, collaborating with electrical engineers to integrate PCBA and cabling. You’ll own vendor engagement, define tests, and push designs from prototyping to mass production, while debugging root causes.

The role emphasizes 3D CAD mastery, CATIA experience, and manufacturing process design, with a strong focus on delivering reliable electromechanical solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• Ability to apply analytical problem solving skills and engineering fundamentals to create high-quality designs for a sophisticated electromechanical system.
• Mastery of 3D CAD, specifically as used in developing complex assemblies along with an acute sense of when to hack and when to build elegant parametrics.
• Experience with CATIA strongly preferred.
• Ability to design for a broad array of manufacturing processes (injection molding, metal casting, and CNC machining required, sheet metal forming and composites desired).

Responsibilities

• Design mechanical parts and assemblies for our aircraft, ground stations, and other key accessories from the ground-up as part of new architectures.
• Collaborate closely with electrical engineers to shape and integrate custom PCBAs, flex circuits, antennas, and cable harnesses.
• Interface with and own technical activity at vendors in partnership with operations and supply chain teams.
• Define and execute engineering tests and utilize analysis to evaluate system trade-offs and prove your design.
• Drive designs throughout the development cycle from prototyping to pre-production and into mass production; support manufacturing with assembly processes and inspection criteria.
• Debug and investigate failures with a focus on root cause analysis.

Skills

3D CAD

CATIA

Analytical problem solving

Mechanical design

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

CATIA

Job description

Skydio is seeking a senior mechanical engineer to design parts and assemblies for aircraft and related systems, collaborating with electrical engineers to integrate PCBA and cabling. You’ll own vendor engagement, define tests, and push designs from prototyping to mass production, while debugging root causes.

The role emphasizes 3D CAD mastery, CATIA experience, and manufacturing process design, with a strong focus on delivering reliable electromechanical solutions.