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Senior Mechanical Engineer

Icarus
Location
El Segundo
Work mode
On-site
Type
full time
Listed

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[ About this role ]

Senior Mechanical Engineer at Icarus in El Segundo. This role involves designing and flying lightweight, high-reliability structures for stratospheric aircraft, owning mechanical subsystems from concept to flight, and performing first-principles sizing and trade studies. The engineer will also build, test, and refine flight hardware, and support integration, production, and flight operations.

Skills and focus areas

  • mechanical engineering
  • structures
  • materials
  • first-principles engineering
  • lightweight structures
  • composites
  • sheet metal
  • bonded assemblies
  • hardware design
  • hardware analysis
  • hardware building
  • testing

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