Senior Design Engineer – Advanced Concepts & Prototypes – Aerospace Research

Senior Design Engineer – Advanced Concepts & Prototypes – Aerospace Research

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited university or college.
• Minimum of 10 years total experience in mechanical design
• Detailed hardware design from concept to manufacturing drawing
• Design for manufacturing & assembly (DFMA)
• Definition of component requirements for manufacturing teams and vendors
• Proficiency in CAD
• Minimum of 5 years experience as design project leader for highly integrated application (Examples: Turbomachinery, aerospace, or similar complex multi-component system)
• Create detailed component-level requirements to meet overall system goals
• Technical project planning & coordination for large multi-disciplinary team
• Conceptual design of systems outside industry experience
• Integration of new technology into a system
• Communication to working team, project leadership, and senior leadership
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) & Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Must be willing to work onsite in Niskayuna, NY
• Due to the nature of the duties of this position, this role requires the individual to obtain and maintain US Government Security Clearance; prerequisite for a security clearance is U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Execute with limited guidance the mechanical design of complex test systems, prototypes, and technology demos incorporating a range of new technologies.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, researchers, and facilities focals to turn high level system goals and test objectives into detailed design requirements.
• Plan and oversee the execution of design tasks for a multidisciplinary team of designers, analysts, and researchers.
• Use engineering judgement to identify key design features to meet the testing goals and simplify non-critical features to accelerate time to test.
• Apply established design methodology as appropriate to create prototypes that properly model future products.
• Create new design methodologies as required to reduce new technology to practice. Record lessons learned to inform future engineering teams.
• Oversee manufacturing, assembly, and commissioning of prototypes and related test systems.
• Mentor and guide those less experienced in applied mechanical design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering from an accredited university or college
• Experience in prototype creation & testing
• Design for test (prototype & test enabling hardware
• Test facility integration
• Test plan creation
• Test safety management
• Instrumentation and measurement
• Hands-on assembly
• Test execution
• Technical Communication
• Generation and documentation of design processes
• Communication with external customers, vendors, and partners
• Coordination with on-site, remote, and global team members
• Application of Lean principles in design process
• Continual improvement
• Iterative design process