Mechanical Build Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Los Angeles

Employment Type: FullTime

Amca is building airplanes for the 21st century, starting by designing new hardware that flies on today’s planes. Aviation was once humanity’s boldest ambition, but the industry hasn’t successfully built a new plane in 40 years. We don’t think it has to be this way.

Overview:

The Mechanical Build Engineering role is responsible for owning the build procedures used to develop qualification hardware, and iterate on the initial builds to ensure highly reliable production level builds at our subsidiaries once product maturity has been achieved. You will serve as the extreme owner for build process of the parts we design. Your days will consist of hands on R&D for new build methodologies and specifications, while also working closely with the design engineering team to ensure design for manufacturability of our new products.

Responsibilities:

• Develop build methodology from industry standards and conduct cutting edge R&D to improve on our component manufacturing processes and unlock new methods

• Oversee the assembly and manufacturing procedures for both new and existing hardware

• Act as the extreme owner of DFM changes to part drawings. You will be empowered to make changes to the drawings as required to eliminate repeat failures

• Conduct development campaigns for new manufacturing methods and write specifications on manufacturing best practices based on real world data for the design engineers to abide by

• Trade purchasing commercial build/manufacturing capabilities off the shelf against designing and developing the capabilities in house

• Act as the extreme owner for various manufacturing methods, you will be the ultimate source of information for design engineers on how machines work and how to best optimize parts for various methods

• Ideate and implement tooling, enabling high-quality build of Amca hardware

• Identify, plan, and execute capital equipment, machine, and layout upgrades to meet changing needs

• Partner with engineering and production teams to generate ideas, designs, and improvements for current and next-generation vehicles

• Assist design engineers in guiding new designs from concepts to qualified, production-capable aerospace components

• Prototype new components at our in-house R&D lab. You will be expected to be intimately involved with any prototype development

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's or advanced degree in aerospace engineering, manufacturing engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering or engineering physics

• 1+ years of engineering experience in manufacturing, design, test, or development (internship and project team experience is applicable)

• Strong understanding of engineering first principles, specifically with regards to thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and solid mechanics

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, enthusiasm for problem solving, and desire to optimize modern aerospace production and design processes

• 2+ years of professional experience in the field of aerospace/mechanical engineering

• 2+ years of experience with GD&T concepts

• Strong project management skills and effective communication of technical concepts across multi-disciplinary teams

• Experience with the building and testing of fluid and/or electrical systems

• Experience with the build and test of pneumatic, hydraulic, and structural assemblies

• Experience with scientific computer science languages (Python, MATLAB, or similar)

• Experience with Siemens NX or other similar CAD package

• Experience with DFM improvement projects

Additional Requirements:

• Travel to vendors and other Amca sites as needed

• Able to work flexible hours and occasional weekend support as needed