Staff Engineer, Landing Gear Systems - Ranger (R6294)
Core
Lead architecture definition, structural design, and validation of landing gear systems for autonomous aircraft to meet mass, volume, and ground handling requirements.
Role type
Staff Engineer, Landing Gear Systems
Builds
Landing gear mechanisms, structural components, and test fixtures for autonomous aircraft
Domain
Aerospace / Defense
Required skills
classical solid mechanics, kinematics, dynamics, fatigue analysis, materials selection, GD&T, FEA, CAD modeling, vendor management, test planning
Preferred skills
UAV/autonomous aircraft landing systems, MIL-STD/DO-160 standards, machine shop/fabrication
Technologies
Siemens NX, CATIA, Creo, PLM
Responsibilities
Lead landing gear architecture definition and trade studies, own full CAD design lifecycle from concept to release, perform structural and dynamic sizing, size and select subsystems, manage component sourcing and vendors, define test plans and support drop qualification, support integration and flight test operations
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC