Sr. Mechanical Engineer, Radar

Department: Hardware

Location: Seattle, WA

Compensation: $190K – $250K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

We're building safety-enhancing technology for aviation that will save lives. Automated aviation systems will enable a future where air transportation is safer, more convenient and fundamentally transformative to the way goods — and eventually people — move around the planet. We are a team of mission-driven engineers with experience across aerospace, robotics and self-driving cars working to make this future a reality.

As a Sr. Mechanical Engineer for Radar you will be a part of our Mechanical Engineering team and focusing your efforts towards our radar hardware development. We enjoy a culture of sharing information and collaboration. Phased array radar systems have historically been reserved for specialized applications, but we’re making this technology affordable to enable Detect and Avoid for widespread commercial applications. This role will focus on new and existing Radar designs. The passion for revolutionary technology to make aviation safer motivates us to come in every day.

Responsibilities

In your role as a Sr. Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for designing RF enclosures and test systems of our next-generation Active Electronic Scanning Array (AESA) Radar system. You will own the RF and standard electronics packaging, including ECAD, closely collaborating with the Radar Electrical engineers. In addition you will design the electrical interconnection and system harnessing, and support certification of our AESA Radar system and other Avionics hardware to DO-160 environmental, DO-254 design assurance, and FCC certification.

Required Skills

• Avionics packaging experience

• Expertise in CAD modeling and drafting (NX preferred)

• Mastery of tolerance and assembly analysis, including GD&T

• Change management process knowledge and experience using configuration management tools (Teamcenter preferred)

• Familiarity with DO-160 environmental requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Skills

• Radar Packaging experience

• Thermal analysis experience (both hand calcs and finite element)

• Design for manufacturability and volume production

• Project ownership and management

• Hands on skills assembling avionics per aerospace industry standards

This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. An offer of employment will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to perform in compliance with U.S. export control laws.

All applicants are asked to provide documentation that legally establishes status as a U.S. person or non-U.S. person (and nationalities in the case of a non-U.S. person). Where the applicant is not a U.S. person, meaning not a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident, (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or not otherwise permitted to access the export-controlled technology without U.S. government authorization, the Company reserves the right not to apply for an export license for such applicants whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code requires authorization and may decline to proceed with the application process and any offer of employment on that basis.

At Reliable Robotics, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, ancestry, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or medical conditions, national origin, military or veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment and promotion is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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