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REGENT is building Seagliders—wing-in-ground-effect craft that travel just above the water's surface, combining airplane speed (180 mph) with boat-like operating costs. The company is scaling from prototype to full production and seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to own mechanical systems across multiple vehicle platforms (Squire, Paladin, Viceroy).
In this hands-on role, you will design, refine, and mature mechanical systems spanning structures, mechanisms, actuation, fluid handling, and vehicle-level integration. You'll take subsystems from concept through CAD, analysis, prototype, and test. Key responsibilities include:
- Design mechanical hardware across structures, mechanisms, actuation, thermal, fluid, and electromechanical systems from concept through production-intent CAD and documentation.
- Justify designs with analysis—hand calculations, structural FEA, kinematic analysis, thermal analysis, and fluid analysis as needed, including fastener sizing and tolerance stack-ups.
- Build and test prototypes in the lab with limited supervision; design test rigs, benches, and fixtures to enable rapid iteration.
- Mature existing designs already deployed on REGENT products, improving reliability, weight, and manufacturability for production.
- Partner across electrical, software, controls, and program management teams to solve integration challenges.
- Own projects end-to-end as the responsible engineer, progressing multiple concepts in parallel while tracking trade-offs.
- Contribute to core technologies like hydrofoil retraction and control surface actuation, moving them from prototype toward full-rate production.
Within a year, you'll be shaping mechanical system architectures and making sound engineering decisions with limited oversight, becoming a trusted technical focal point for one or more areas of ownership.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Demonstrated mechanical design experience across a variety of system types: structures, mechanisms, actuation, thermal, fluid, or electromechanical.
- Strong command of machine elements and mechanisms—bearings, locks, latches, hinges, linkages, seals, pulleys, sliders—ideally having designed systems using several.
- Familiarity with drive and power transmission: motors, gearboxes, gear trains, belt and chain drives, and hydraulics. Experience selecting fastening and joining schemes and sizing joints.
- Advanced CAD proficiency designing complex components and large assemblies (NX preferred but not required), with clean, well-organized models.
- Solid analysis foundation: comfortable with hand calculations and FEA to justify design choices, with sound judgment about which analysis a system needs.
- Practical manufacturing knowledge: machining, sheet metal, composites, welding, castings, and additive manufacturing, plus understanding of how each shapes design decisions, materials selection, and failure modes (fatigue, corrosion, wear, buckling).
- Bonus: structural analysis depth (FEMAP or ANSYS experience).
- Bonus: eVTOL or flight-hardware background, designing flight-worthy human-carrying assets with breadth across multiple mechanical disciplines.
