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Posted 2 weeks ago

Product Design Engineer

Skydio
United States 🇺🇸
  • Onsite
  • Full Time

$175,000 - $205,000 year

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Job description

  • 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 our internal manufacturing and factory teams with assembly processes, quality and inspection criteria, etc
  • Debug and investigate failures with an eye for the smallest details and a commitment to reach the deepest causes
  • Passion for elegant mechanical design at the highest and lowest levels of detail
  • Ability to design for a broad array of manufacturing processes (injection molding, metal casting, and CNC machining required, sheet metal forming and composites desired)
  • Ability to produce well-constructed, thorough mechanical part and assembly drawings
  • A strategic mind across the full design, source, build, validate, and ship process. Proven ability to make considered decisions at various stages
  • 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
  • 3-8 years of prior experience of product development with a proven track record of execution, enthusiasm, and cooperation. This role could be a senior-level depending on experience
  • Ability to apply analytical problem solving skills and engineering fundamentals to create high-quality designs for a sophisticated electromechanical system
  • Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions
  • Excellent sense of how best to prototype quickly and efficiently in a fast-paced environment
  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent with demonstrated academic excellence

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