Mechanical Engineer

- 3 to 10+ years in mechanical engineering on ruggedized or field-deployable systems

- Strong FEA experience with ANSYS, Nastran, Abaqus, or equivalent

- Hands on experience designing to MIL-STD-810 or equivalent shock and vibration standards

- Track record building and instrumenting structural test rigs and correlating model to bench

- Experience with sealing, EMI/EMC gaskets, conformal coating, and environmental protection design

- Experience designing enclosures and structures for field-deployable or military conditions

Where you probably come from: Defense hardware companies, airborne or ground vehicle systems, ruggedized electronics enclosures, directed energy programs, or field-deployed sensor or radar systems.

We want to talk if: You've designed a system that had to survive shock, vibration, and environmental extremes in a constrained, deployable package. You can model it, build it, instrument it, and correlate it.

Not a fit if: You've only done commercial or consumer product design, your work is simulation-only with no bench validation, or you've never designed to a MIL or DO-160 standard.

- Direct laser system or directed energy hardware experience

- MIL-STD-461 EMI/EMC design awareness for mechanical hardware integration

- Experience with optical bench or precision instrument ruggedization

- Field-deployable or vehicle-mounted system experience

- BS or MS in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related engineering field. PhD welcome but not required.

- Extreme bias for action. You'd rather build and instrument the rig tomorrow than model it for a month

- You characterize your own systems before the field does

- Comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration in a startup environment

- Clear communicator across mechanical, electrical, optical, and software teams

- Self directed. You identify what needs to happen next and do it without being told

Core hours are Monday through Friday, 9 to 6. When we're sprinting toward a demo or field test, the team ramps up - nights, weekends, whatever it takes to ship. When the sprint lands, we ramp down.

We don't manufacture intensity for show.

- Competitive salary and equity

- United Health Care medical, dental, and vision coverage

- Flexible 18 days PTO plus 5 sick days

- Travel to field test events and range days

- Covered daily lunches and office snacks and drinks

- E-bike and scooter stipend up to $500

- Direct access to leadership and real ownership over your work

This role requires access to export-controlled information or items that require U.S. Person status. As defined by U.S. law, individuals who are any one of the following are considered to be a U.S.

Person: (1) U.S. citizens, (2) legal permanent residents (a.k.a. green card holders), and (3) certain protected classes of asylees and refugees, as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).