Job Responsibilities:
- Define and develop mechanical solutions to complex engineering scenarios using formulae, testing, and prototyping starting from concept through production and integration.
- Become intimately familiar with the system or subsystem being worked on
- Communicate project progress to a diverse and varying audience utilizing collaborative messaging and presentation strategies.
- Provide fixture, component, assembly, and system documentation including but not limited to: CAD models, drawings, requirements, specifications, and procedures.
- Oversee, troubleshoot, and assist in the prototyping, manufacturing, and validation of engineered fixtures, components, assemblies, and systems while prioritizing outcomes.
Qualifications
- Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
- Demonstrated proficiency using 3D CAD modeling and drawing software to design and document both simple and complex parts, assemblies, and drawings.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in an engineering environment.
- A passion for building things!
Preferred Qualifications
- Solidworks experience.
- Experience working within an iterative or collaborative engineering design process.
- Ability to create designs that are manufacturable (DFM / DFA / DFX).
- Two-dimensional and three-dimensional rapid prototyping exposure.
- Ability to operate basic manual and power hand tools.
What We Offer!
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan (100% premium paid for individuals, ~75% for dependents)
- Company-paid life, AD&D, long-term disability, and short-term disability insurance
- Parental leave
- Generous PTO + 10 paid holidays
- Lunch and snacks provided every day, including accommodations for all dietary restrictions
- Fun events, swag, and the occasional airship ride
- An opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and the most talented experts from different fields
Top Skills
What We Do
Lighter Than Air (LTA) Research is an aerospace research and development company building experimental and certified manned and remotely piloted airships.
We are developing advanced technologies to dramatically increase the capabilities and lower the cost of 21st century airships. With these next-generation airships, we strive to improve humanitarian aid delivery and reduce carbon emissions, while providing economic opportunity and new jobs to Americans.
LTA airships will have the ability to complement — and even speed up — humanitarian disaster response and relief efforts, especially in remote areas that cannot be easily accessed by plane and boat due to limited or destroyed infrastructure. We ultimately aim to create a family of aircraft with zero emissions that, when used for shipping goods and moving people, would substantially reduce the global carbon footprint of aviation.
