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Senior/ Staff Mechanical Design Engineer, Motor

Aviary - SSF💼 Full-time💰 $160,000–$160,000🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, analyze, and integrate high-performance electric motors and propulsion hardware for autonomous delivery aircraft.

Role type

Senior/Staff Mechanical Design Engineer (Electric Motors & Propulsion)

Builds

Rotor-stator assemblies, motor housings, cooling systems, controller enclosures, and aircraft interfaces for autonomous delivery drones.

Domain

Aerospace / Electric Propulsion / Autonomous Logistics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

mechanical design of electric motors, FEA/CAE analysis (rotor dynamics, thermals, vibration), CAD (NX, CATIA, Creo), thermal management, design for manufacturing/assembly, GD&T, tolerance stack-up analysis, durability testing planning, DFMEA, electromagnetic design principles, permanent-magnet synchronous motor design

Preferred skills

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, experience with high-torque-density or high-efficiency permanent-magnet synchronous motors, hands-on prototyping and test fixture development

Technologies

NX, CATIA, Creo, ANSYS, Nastran, Abaqus

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end mechanical delivery of electric motors from concept to production; design rotor-stator subassemblies and cooling solutions; perform system-level FEA/CAE and engineering analyses; create production-ready CAD assemblies and drawings; lead design-for-manufacturing activities; define and execute durability and reliability test plans; lead cost-down efforts to improve manufacturability.

Seniority

Senior/Staff, hands-on IC with strategic ownership

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