Responsibilities

• Define hardware requirements and perform system level design.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, software, and other mechanical engineers to evaluate and optimise designs for customer needs, reliability, and ease of deployment into the field.
• Lead the development cycle of various aeromechanical systems and subsystems to meet performance requirements. This includes architecture definition, conceptual and preliminary design, prototype, analysis and finally production readiness.
• Take ownership of hardware development from requirements elicitation to production sign-off.
• Follow rigorous testing protocols, creating testing documentation and test designs.
• Build and maintain detailed components CAD models and assemblies, generating BoMs and technical drawings along.
• Apply DFM principle at the early conception stage.

Requirements

• Proficiency in CAD, preferably SolidWorks.
• Knowledge of additive and subtractive manufacturing processes.
• Materials Engineering understanding for common aerospace materials: carbon fibre, aluminium, 3D printed materials.
• Knowledge of flight dynamics applied to multicopters .
• Understanding of aerodynamics and electric motor propulsion
• Understanding of control theory and its application in the context of UAVs.
• Understanding of electromagnetics as part of collaborative work with electrical engineers
• Understanding of product design and release cycles.
• Preferably, experience with designing for and testing flying systems.