Engineering Manager, Air Vehicle Mechanical Systems
f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- San Diego, California, United States
- Full-time · Manager
- 10+ years
Lead and develop a team of high talent mechanical engineers focused on aircraft mechanisms and actuation systems for the X-BAT VTOL military UAV platform.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of high talent mechanical engineers, from new grad to Principal, focused on aircraft mechanisms and actuation systems
- Support your team as a technical resource for end-to-end design of mechanisms including doors, uplocks/downlocks, landing gear, actuation integration, nozzle/propulsion actuation mechanisms, and hydraulics
- Set the quality bar for mechanisms engineering: sizing, tolerances, margins, drawings/MBD, materials/process selection, and verification evidence
- Enable extreme ownership by ensuring engineers have clear goals, interfaces, resources, and decision rights
- Drive effective cross-functional collaboration across systems, structures/loads, aero, propulsion, GNC, avionics, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, test, flight test
Requirements
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent)
- Nice to have: environmental and operational robustness (vibration/shock, thermal extremes, contamination, corrosion, sand/dust)
- Nice to have: ground test and flight test campaigns
- Nice to have: mechanism failure investigations
- Nice to have: reliability and safety methods (DFMEA/FTA, fault containment, safe-state thinking)