Neonaerospace

Principal Mechanical Engineer

Irvine, CA · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$210k-$325kDetected 37 days ago
PythonMATLABSupply ChainSiemens NXFEAGD&TDO-160RoboticsMechanical DesignLeadershipTolerance Analysis

About the role

  • Our team leverages automation, AI-driven tools, and a fully connected digital backbone to accelerate innovation and reduce barriers to production.
  • Here, you won't just take a job - you'll help reinvent how the world flies.
  • If you're ready to solve complex problems, push technology further, and work alongside some of the brightest minds in aerospace, this is your chance to make a real impact.

Responsibilities

  • Own system-level mechanical architecture and integration for advanced electromechanical platforms.
  • Lead design, analysis, prototyping, and production release of complex mechanical systems.
  • Drive DFM, DFA, Design for Automation, and Design for Cost across programs.
  • Partner with suppliers to industrialize components across processes like sheet metal, die casting, precision gear manufacturing, high-precision machining, and other scalable methods.
  • Oversee first article builds and production validation, including yield improvement and root-cause resolution.
  • Apply advanced mechanical analysis (FEA, thermal, structural, dynamic) to validate performance and inform design decisions.
  • Support environmental and reliability qualification (e.g., vibration, thermal, durability testing) as needed.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews and tough technical problems-while staying close to the work and the hardware.
  • This is a deeply hands-on role for a senior technical expert who can architect and integrate complex mechanical systems, lead teams through critical decisions, and drive designs from concept to production with rigor and speed.
  • You'll collaborate across electrical, thermal, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain, working in spaces like aerospace, transportation, robotics, and advanced mobility.

Nice to have

  • Minimum of 12 years of experience in developing and shipping complex mechanical systems.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering preferred
  • relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree
  • Expert proficiency in Siemens NX (required).
  • Deep expertise in GD&T, tolerance analysis, and production drawing release.
  • Proven track record taking products from concept → industrialization → shipment.
  • Experience spanning multiple manufacturing technologies and scaling hardware into production.
  • Background in aerospace, transportation, robotics, consumer hardware, motorsports, or other high-performance industries.

Skills

  • Build the mechanical backbone of next-generation electromechanical platforms.

Compensation

  • $210,000 - $325,000 USD

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, including equity participation, growth opportunities, and full health benefits (health, vision, dental, 401K) designed to support you in and out of work.
  • This role may also be eligible for bonus/equity/benefits, if applicable.
  • Final compensation will be based on role scope, experience, skills, internal equity and location.

Company info

  • Be part of a team moving faster than the industry standard.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity Employer.
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