The Sr. Drone Design 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.   

• Utilize your experience with lightweight structural design and materials to design key components and structures for our current generation UAS 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, MTRs, work instruction review, and troubleshooting of design issues.
• Create and control design data from concept to product sustainment; support engineering change processes within Teledyne and with government customers as required.

• 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.
• US Citizenship required