Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer — Robotics DoD Hardware

QinetiQ U.S.; Franklin (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

QinetiQ US is seeking a Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer to lead the design, development, and maintenance of military and commercial hardware products at our Franklin, MA facility. You will oversee electromechanical assemblies, robotic hardware, and ruggedized electronics packaging, serving as a technical lead on proposals and programs.

The role requires extensive mechanical design experience, leadership of design teams, and strong skills in FEA, DFM, and customer/vendor communications.

Qualifications

• 15-30 years of experience in mechanical design.
• Direct project engineering or technical lead experience managing design tasks.
• Experience performing Finite Element Analysis.
• Design of land system platforms, maritime systems and hardware.
• Design of robotic systems and hardware.
• Capable of following mechanical programs from inception through system integration.
• Capable of leading design teams of up to 6 engineers/designers.
• Knowledge of sheet metal fabrication, machining processes.
• Knowledge of stage-gate and design cycle processes.
• Experience with welding standards and practices.
• Experience in processing Engineering Changes to documentation on DoD programs.
• BS degree in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Electromechanical design, layout, modeling and production support of electro-mechanical assemblies and electronics packaging (using Solidworks and/or CREO).
• Analysis of complex mechanical systems via ANSYS Workbench implementing both explicit and implicit modeling to study vibration, shock, fluids, Fluent, structural loading, and thermal responses / performance of the system.
• Develop Engineering Estimates and design concepts for proposals
• Implement Design for Manufacturability (DFM) practices.
• Create/update detailed designs and drawings for fabrication.
• Interface with customers and vendors on a project engineering level.
• Writing design specifications, reports, and proposals.
• Presenting technical internal and customer presentations.
• Perform tolerance analysis, check and approve detail designs and drawings
• Provide technical guidance to vendors and manufacturing in the build of DoD electromechanical assemblies.
• Disposition discrepant material, author fabrication deviations for suppliers, support assembly personnel in support of manufacturing military electronic equipment.
• Must support both Devens and Franklin facilities.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance if required.

Skills

Mechanical design experience

Technical lead experience

Finite Element Analysis

Robotic systems hardware

System design integration

Education

BS in Mechanical Engineering

MS in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

ANSYS Fluent/CFX

Job description

QinetiQ US is seeking a Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer to lead the design, development, and maintenance of military and commercial hardware products at our Franklin, MA facility. You will oversee electromechanical assemblies, robotic hardware, and ruggedized electronics packaging, serving as a technical lead on proposals and programs.

The role requires extensive mechanical design experience, leadership of design teams, and strong skills in FEA, DFM, and customer/vendor communications.