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Salary: USD 140,000 - 180,000 / annual
Mach Industries, founded in 2023, is a rapidly growing defense technology company with ~350 employees focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. The company operates with startup agility while addressing national security challenges through scalable, decentralized defense systems.
You will serve as a Senior Structural Engineer responsible for designing, analyzing, and testing composite structures for next-generation autonomous vehicles and aircraft. This is a full-cycle engineering role where you will own structural components from concept through flight test.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and develop lightweight metallic and composite structures for UAVs and aircraft from concept through flight test
- Own structural components through the complete development cycle: architecture, sizing, detailed design, analysis, fabrication, and validation
- Use hand calculations and FEA to evaluate load paths, strength, stiffness, stability, buckling, and structural margins to drive design decisions
- Collaborate closely with manufacturing, test, loads, and other engineering teams to develop practical, buildable structural solutions
- Support structural testing, design reviews, prototype builds, and rapid design iterations as vehicle requirements and architectures mature
You will work in a fast-paced environment where you contribute to platforms that maintain an allied American edge. The role requires availability for extended hours and weekends as needed.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of experience in aerospace structural design and analysis
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related discipline
- Strong understanding of structural mechanics, load paths, free-body diagrams, strength, stiffness, stability, and structural sizing
- Experience using CAD and FEA tools such as NX, FEMAP, Simcenter/Nastran, ANSYS, Abaqus, or equivalent
- Demonstrated ability to take structural hardware from initial concept through analysis, detailed design, manufacturing, and test
- Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee (ITAR compliance required)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience developing and maintaining vehicle-level global finite element models (GFEMs)
- Experience designing and analyzing composite structures, laminates, bonded joints, and mechanically fastened joints
- Experience with aircraft/UAV structures such as fuselages, wings, control surfaces, spars, bulkheads, and major structural interfaces
- Experience supporting structural testing, FEM correlation, modal/buckling analysis, and flight-test hardware
- Experience with rapid prototype development and hands-on manufacturing or assembly of aerospace structures
