Salient Motion

Mechanical Test Engineer

Torrance, CA

Sponsorship not specified$110k-$130kDetected 27 days ago

MIL-STDDO-160WritingActuators

About the role

** Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) to meet customer and regulatory requirements**
We are pioneering modular motion technologies to power the next generation of innovation for Industrial, Aerospace and Defense. If you're excited about disrupting legacy industries, and passionate about building the financial infrastructure behind cutting-edge hardware, let's chat!

This role focuses on the mechanical and environmental side of qualification: vibration, shock, thermal, humidity, altitude, and life/durability testing, including the design of test fixtures and instrumentation.
The role includes witnessing tests at customer and partner sites, both domestically and abroad.
Develop test plans and reports to DO-160G and MIL-STD-810H, including vibration, shock, thermal, humidity, and altitude testing to support qualification as well as unit acceptance testing.
Design and build mechanical test fixtures, load setups, instrumentation, and data acquisition configurations.
Plan and execute load, life and durability, and environmental testing to validate cycle reliability requirements.
Manage testing at outsourced labs and witness tests at customer and partner facilities, domestically and internationally.
Analyze test data, identify mechanical failure modes, and drive root-cause/corrective action with design engineering.
Support development of an in-house qualification test lab as capability matures.
Come join us and help build next generation systems that will make a massive impact at global scale.

Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) to meet customer and regulatory requirements**
2+ years of qualification or environmental test experience on aerospace, defense, or comparable hardware.
Proficiency with mechanical test instrumentation, load cells, accelerometers, data acquisition systems, and data analysis.
Experience designing test fixtures and mechanical instrumentation setups.
U.S. Person status required per ITAR and ability to travel internationally (valid passport required).

Experience with electromechanical actuators, motors, gear trains, or precision mechanisms.
Exposure to commercial/defense certification environments.
Experience managing third-party test labs and witnessing customer acceptance testing.
What we have to offer:

We are pioneering modular motion technologies to power the next generation of innovation for Industrial, Aerospace and Defense.
If you're excited about disrupting legacy industries, and passionate about building the financial infrastructure behind cutting-edge hardware, let's chat!
We are at the forefront of innovation, crafting exclusive motion control components that propel the industrial, aerospace, and defense sectors into the future.
A couple other things:
We offer a lot of autonomy
We like to run lean for impact
We have great benefits
We are well funded, and already generating revenue
We're currently in Torrance, CA, but will be moving into a new facility in Hawthorne, CA in the summer!
Coordinate test schedules, witness points, and acceptance criteria with customers and labs.
We are not just building components.
We are reshaping the future of the Aerospace and Defense component industry, which is a $300B+ market!

U.S. Person status required per ITAR and ability to travel internationally (valid passport required)

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