Furientis

Mechanical Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · Principal · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 69 days ago

LogisticsFEAGD&TAvionicsRoboticsMechanical DesignCommunication

About the role

You will work alongside our Principal Mechanical Engineer.
We do not have the headcount yet to split airframe, mechanisms, GSE, and launcher across separate engineers, and we are not trying to.
The right person reaches across all of it, makes the calls that need making, and pulls in deeper analysis or outside help where the problem warrants it.

Design and build the launcher and the ground equipment the program runs on: handling fixtures, transport cradles, environmental enclosures, and the systems that mate the vehicle to the rail.
Run vehicle integration, environmental test, and ground and flight test campaigns. Reduce data, close out anomalies, and feed the lessons back into the design.
Coordinate with aero on outer mold line implementation, with propulsion on case and nozzle integration, with avionics on tray and harness routing, with the seeker team on optical-package interfaces, and with the Control Actuation System Engineer on fin actuator integration into the airframe: hinge supports, OML cutouts, and sealing.
6+ years of hands-on mechanical design of flight structures or similarly mission critical systems.
Fluency in metallic or composite design, analysis, and manufacturing.

B.S. in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related engineering. M.S. welcome.
Hands-on builder posture. Comfortable on the shop floor, at a test stand, and at a vendor.
Excellent cross disciplinary communication skills.
U.S. Person, eligible to obtain a U.S. SECRET security clearance.
Tactical missile, munition, or interceptor program experience.
Launcher, canister, or launch-tube design experience.
GSE and handling-equipment design at any scale.
Hands-on safety record working with energetic and hazardous materials.

America is critically deficient in production of defensive munitions- we currently produce shipborne interceptors in the few hundreds per year while our adversaries are producing offensive threats in the tens of thousands per year.
Furientis was started to help solve this problem- introducing a new class of cost-effective, high production rate, interceptor missiles.
We're seeking motivated individuals who internalize this problem and are eager to apply their past experience in similar industries (aerospace, defense, automotive/racing, robotics) and out of the box thinking to solve this problem for the US and its allies.

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