UAS Engineer - Mechanical

Skyeton; North Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

401k with company match

Medical insurance

Job summary

Skyeton in the United States is seeking a mechanical engineer to own the payload trays, mounts, and airframe interfaces for the Raybird, ensuring weight, CG, and endurance budgets while delivering fabrication‑ready drawings.

You will perform CAD/FEA trade studies, GD&T specification, and support integration labs and flight testing, collaborating with machinists and technicians to bring hardware to life and demonstrations to customers.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3–5 years designing and integrating mechanical hardware for UAS, aircraft, or other flight/defense programs.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• Fluency in Solidworks (or CATIA, Creo, or NX) for detailed part, assembly, surfacing, and drawing work.
• Comfort running FEA and hand calculations for structural, vibration, and thermal margins (Solidworks Simulation, ANSYS, or similar).
• Strong command of GD&T (ASME Y14.5), tolerance stack-ups, and design-for-manufacture across machined, sheet‑metal, composite, and printed parts.
• A track record of weight- and CG-conscious design on mass‑constrained systems.
• Willingness to be hands‑on in the lab and at the flight line, including test support at U.S. military installations.
• Sharp attention to detail and a bias toward getting hardware flying.

Responsibilities

• Own the mechanical design of payload trays, mounts, and airframe interfaces that carry EO/IR, radar, SAR, and SIGINT payloads on the Raybird.
• Package mission equipment into tight internal volumes while holding to the platform’s weight, center-of-gravity, and endurance budgets.
• Design vibration isolation, shock protection, and thermal paths so sensitive gimbals survive catapult launch and parachute-airbag recovery.
• Run CAD and FEA trade studies to validate structural, vibration, and thermal margins before hardware reaches the bench.
• Produce fabrication-ready drawings, GD&T, and assembly documentation, and work directly with machinists and technicians to get parts made.
• Stand up integration-lab fixtures, jigs, and test stands, and support fit-checks and environmental testing.
• Turn hardware around quickly for flight test and customer demonstrations, then iterate on what the flight data shows.

Skills

Mechanical design

GD&T

FEA

Structural analysis

UAS experience

Hands-on hardware

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Tools

Solidworks

CATIA

Creo

NX

ANSYS

Job description

About the role

At Skyeton, you’ll work at the leading edge of unmanned aircraft systems. Our Raybird UAVs fly critical missions, from reconnaissance and monitoring to targeting and search-and-rescue, proven across hundreds of thousands of operational flight hours. This is a UAS-focused engineering role, and everything you do centers on getting capability onto the aircraft and into the air.

You’ll work in a fast-paced engineering, integration, and test environment, moving from concept to flight quickly and validating new payloads and mission systems on real hardware. Expect hands-on, day-to-day exposure to emerging technologies across sensors, communications, and autonomy, with the freedom to prototype, integrate, and iterate.

Most importantly, your work gets fielded. You’ll help bring new technologies and mission capabilities directly to the warfighter on timelines that matter, and see the systems you build make a real operational difference.

What you’ll d o

• Own the mechanical design of payload trays, mounts, and airframe interfaces that carry EO/IR, radar, SAR, and SIGINT payloads on the Raybird.
• Package mission equipment into tight internal volumes while holding to the platform’s weight, center-of-gravity, and endurance budgets.
• Design vibration isolation, shock protection, and thermal paths so sensitive gimbals survive catapult launch and parachute-airbag recovery.
• Run CAD and FEA trade studies to validate structural, vibration, and thermal margins before hardware reaches the bench.
• Produce fabrication-ready drawings, GD&T, and assembly documentation, and work directly with machinists and technicians to get parts made.
• Stand up integration-lab fixtures, jigs, and test stands, and support fit-checks and environmental testing.
• Turn hardware around quickly for flight test and customer demonstrations, then iterate on what the flight data shows.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years designing and integrating mechanical hardware for UAS, aircraft, or other flight or defense programs.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• Fluency in Solidworks (or CATIA, Creo, or NX) for detailed part, assembly, surfacing, and drawing work.
• Comfort running FEA and hand calculations for structural, vibration, and thermal margins (Solidworks Simulation, ANSYS, or similar).
• Strong command of GD&T (ASME Y14.5), tolerance stack-ups, and design-for-manufacture across machined, sheet‑metal, composite, and printed parts.
• A track record of weight- and CG-conscious design on mass‑constrained systems.
• Willingness to be hands‑on in the lab and at the flight line, including test support at U.S. military installations.
• Sharp attention to detail and a bias toward getting hardware flying.

_ Preferred Qualifications: _

• Active U.S. security clearance, Minimum Secret, TS or TS/SCI preferred.
• Prior work on Department of War (DoW) programs.
• Experience with small fixed‑wing UAS in the Group 2–3 class (roughly 20–25 kg MTOW).
• Hands‑on experience with catapult‑launched, parachute‑and airbag‑recovered aircraft and the shock and impact loads they create.
• Experience mounting and isolating gimbaled EO/IR, radar, SAR, or SIGINT payloads.
• Familiarity with MIL‑STD and DO‑160 environmental testing.
• Design experience for wide-temperature field environments (roughly −35 °C to +55 °C).

What We Offer

• Paid Time Off (PTO).
• 401k plan with company match.
• Medical insurance: voluntary health insurance program.
• Innovative projects: work in an international company that develops advanced technologies for the military sector and is actively growing in the global market.
• Career opportunities: participation in internal competitions for new positions, working on various projects, and expanding your skills.
• Competitive salary and a referral program for recommendations.