What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. to Staff Mechanical Engineer - Delivery Drone Airframe Structures position at Skyrocket Ventures?
Sr. to Staff Mechanical Engineer - Delivery Drone Airframe Structures
San Francisco, CA (you can work from home up to 2x/week)
The team builds small, lightweight autonomous delivery drones with safety-first hardware designed to operate around people and everyday urban infrastructure. The work has a positive impact on the sustainability, access, and cost of everyday necessities.
You would be joining an elite group of about 60 people and 20 engineers inside a much larger public company. This org operates as a small, fast-moving hardware innovation lab: minimal bureaucracy, real build/test cycles, and ownership of systems that ship and operate at a very large scale.
The company is targeting a salary range of $200-250k (more is possible for principal level candidates), plus RSUs translating into total first year compensation of roughly $300-500k.
Job Responsibilities:
- Designing and developing lightweight primary and secondary structural assemblies for UAV airframes, including integrated metal and composite structures.
- Owning structural components from concept through validation, encompassing CAD modeling, analysis, prototyping, and test-driven refinement.
- Collaborating with systems engineering to defining and refining structural requirements, interfaces, and architectural constraints.
- Working with test teams to planning and executing structural validation and reliability testing.
- Performing finite element analysis and mass optimization to achieving aggressive weight, strength, and performance targets.
- Ensuring structural designs are robust, manufacturable, and compatible with assembly and integration constraints.
- Investigating structural failures and driving corrective redesign through hands-on testing and iteration.
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering.
- Professional experience as a Mechanical Engineer for an automotive, UAV, aerospace, or high-performance product.
- Advanced proficiency in 3D CAD and surfacing of complex assemblies.
- Experience performing FEA and validating lightweight structures.
- Demonstrated success designing mass-efficient structural components.
- Working knowledge of metallic and composite structural systems.
- Hands-on experience with prototyping, 3D printing, and fixture design.
- Strong understanding of manufacturability and fabrication methods.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, prototype-centric environment.
About Skyrocket Ventures
Skyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for hundreds of high growth technology companies that range from industry leaders to top-tier startups. This opportunity is with one of our client companies for a full-time permanent hire. Please only apply if you are authorized to work in the U.S.
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Salary : $200,000 - $250,000