Sr. Mechanical Engineer - Avionics Mechanical Packaging - TeraWave Verified today
About the Role
As Senior Mechanical Engineer for Avionics Mechanical Packaging on TeraWave, you will lead mechanical packaging design for the Power Management and Distribution (PMAD) Line Replaceable Unit (LRU). You own the complete enclosure package: structural design, thermal paths, card retention, connector access, mounting interfaces, serviceability, mass optimization, producibility, and integration flow. You will drive requirements, design, analysis, test, and critical review of avionics enclosures and assemblies through formal qualification and verification, including integration and flight support.
TeraWave is a space-based communications constellation delivering symmetrical data speeds up to 6 Tbps globally, using optically interconnected satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO).
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership as a member of a cross-disciplinary team in a fast-paced design environment
- Participate in the entire design cycle of flight and mission-critical avionics
- Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to define requirements and design architecture
- Work with electrical engineering on printed circuit board and interconnect systems, including thermal and structural analyses
- Lead design trade studies
- Design avionics enclosure solutions for performance and high reliability in harsh environments
- Create mechanical interface definitions, specifications, and control documents
- Create 3D CAD models, assemblies, part and assembly drawings, and technical documentation
- Build and evaluate prototype assemblies
- Create assembly aids and test fixtures
- Collaborate on and document mechanical best practices
- Plan and conduct engineering tests and data reviews
- Create and deliver presentations, proposals, and training material
- Review assembly instructions and support hardware builds
- Validate requirements through design, test, analysis, and inspection
- Support Production and Quality Engineering, including material defect dispositioning
- Manage product design configuration revisions through the product lifecycle
- Mentor and train junior engineers
- Review and approve designs and documentation created by team members
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
- 7 or more years of recent experience designing ruggedized electronic enclosures or similar high-performance, high-reliability hardware
- Skilled with static structural, modal, random vibration, and thermal analysis
- Skilled with 3D CAD modeling programs (Creo preferred)
- Experience with FEA tools (Ansys preferred)
- Experience with Steinberg or Engelmeier solder fatigue analysis
- Skilled with GD&T implementation and analysis (ASME Y14.5)
- History of communicating design concepts and analysis results effectively
- History of demonstrating autonomous project leadership
- Technical authority recognized by the larger organization
- Experience with environmental testing including vibration, shock, thermal cycle
- Experience performing failure analysis and establishing root cause and corrective action
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with one or more packaging disciplines: avionics, power regulators and distributors, batteries
- Experience with aerospace, launch vehicle, or spacecraft avionics systems
- Experience with recent versions of Creo, Windchill, Ansys Mechanical
- Experience with fatigue analysis and fracture mechanics
- Experience with aerospace industry standard structural analysis methods (Bruhn, Marks', Shigley, Steinberg, Roark's)
- Experience with environmental testing including EMI/RFI, TVAC
- Experience training and mentoring junior level engineers
- Experience directing the activities of other engineers
- Hands-on, practical mechanical abilities
- Ability to be self-directed and balance several projects at one time
- Flexibility and openness to tackling varied assignments and learning new skills
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships
Compensation
Base pay range: CO applicants $133,500 to $186,898.95; WA applicants $145,188 to $203,263.20. Other site ranges may differ.
Requirements
Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Background check required for all positions.