Senior Mechanical Engineer

At Teledyne FLIR in Orem, UT we design and manufacture high quality drones to carry the best sensors into the toughest environments. Our extensive history includes working alongside organizations including U.S. Army, Marines, and US DOD Special Operations Community. We embrace cutting edge innovative technologies and design concepts to bring new capability to our warfighters. As an original equipment manufacturer of drones, we are at the forefront of new American engineering and manufacturing technologies. The foundation of our company is the drive to build superior drone through engineering excellence. You can expect diverse challenges that will require you to be agile and innovative in your work. You can also expect to be on a small team that strives to meet these challenges together. Drone development and the drone market is still young and constantly changing. Your work will be varied and innovative by nature.

Job Summary

The Sr. Mechanical Engineer role is for someone with experience in small, efficient, and low mass design. You work efficiently and thrive on difficult challenges, often doing the impossible by finding novel solutions. You want to be in an environment where continuous learning is not only encouraged – but also expected. You want to be a top-level contributor who will take ownership of their role and projects. You are passionate about quality – but more importantly the customer experience and ensuring this is the best it can be. This position will be responsible for design, test, and release of highly reliable, light weight structural designs and mechanisms for drone vehicles, payloads, and ground station components.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Utilize your experience with lightweight structural design and materials to design key components and structures for our current generation drone requirements.
• Optimize for aerodynamic profiles and efficiencies.
• Utilize Finite Element Analysis (FEA), experiments, and rapid prototyping to design products for durability, performance, and manufacturing quality.
• Develop and conduct tests to validate design acrost full operational capability envelope and environment.
• Deliver market leading designs with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) / Design for Assembly (DFA) methods and techniques.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills; active collaboration with team leads, management, and other team members is expected. The senior engineer takes broad, high-level requirements & feedback to generate specific design tasks and outcomes; owns and drives meetings as applicable.
• Ownership: Take strong ownership of assigned systems, programs, customers, etc. Actively curate subsystem requirements, performance, and timeline. Requires very little direction from management in moving projects forward against agreed upon timelines.
• Coordinate with suppliers during development and production; incidental travel may be required.
• Coordinate with production staff to provide training, Material Test Reports (MTRs), work instruction reviews, and troubleshooting of design issues.
• Create and control design data from concept to product sustainment; support engineering change processes within Teledyne FLIR and with government customers as required.
  
  

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering required.
• 6+ years professional experience in mechanical design of weight and size sensitive assemblies and components.
• Strong part and assembly design experience showing optimization for stiffness and low mass.
• Expertise with Solidworks 3D modeling, drawing, and simulation software is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated strong record of technical innovation, research, and development of complex mechanical systems.
• Must have strong analytical skills with demonstrated experience in technologies that can be successfully applied to drone development.
• Experience with PDM tools and understanding of configuration control practices.
  
  

Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

About Teledyne FLIR Defense

Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to safeguarding lives with cutting-edge sensing and threat detection technologies. Our arsenal includes advanced surveillance sensors, handheld devices, unmanned vehicles, lasers, and more solutions that increase operational effectiveness for warfighters, first responders, and search-and-rescue teams. We're looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense industry. If you’re mission-driven to globally collaborate on life-saving solutions, we invite you to explore our current opportunities.

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