Design Engineer

Frontier Aerospace Corporation

$70K — $100K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
  • 2+ years of product design experience, or a master's degree with relevant experience
  • Proficiency in 3D CAD design (Creo Parametric and Windchill PLM preferred)
  • Strong knowledge of aerospace materials, treatments, and processes
  • Ability to implement and analyze GD&T (ASME Y14.5)
  • Capability to develop design solutions for propulsion systems
  • Excellent communication skills for technical concepts

Responsibilities

  • Generate detailed component drawings meeting functional and customer requirements
  • Apply mechanics, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics principles to design reliable products
  • Create timely engineering product definitions including models and specifications
  • Interface with vendors and assembly teams during design and prototype phases
  • Ensure product compatibility using GD&T and tolerance stack-up analysis
  • Provide technical support and design changes for production improvement
  • Collaborate with teams for customer briefings and design reviews

Benefits

  • 10-12 company paid holidays
  • Vacation and sick days
  • 401(k) with company matching
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Health savings account or flexible spending account
Full Job Description
Design Engineer Come join our growing team where you will make a difference daily by continuing to help build our reputation for quality, responsiveness, and the ability to handle complex products. At Frontier Aerospace, the role of Design Engineer is central to the development of engineering solutions. Individuals in this role will be responsible for developing detailed component and assembly solutions using sketches and 3D modeling software to model and draft product definition, ensuring feasibility, functionality, and producibility of Propulsion System products and supporting equipment. A successful candidate will be able to creatively and wholistically apply engineering, manufacturing, and analysis principles (Mechanical Design, Structures, Thermal, Materials, Physics, Fluids, Design for Manufacturing) to solve challenging problems. They will also have the necessary communication skills to convey complex engineering challenges in a simplified and concise manner, both to internal and external customers. Responsibilities: 37Generate production fidelity detailed component drawings that meet functional, manufacturability, and customer requirements.37Apply principles of mechanics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics to components and subsystems to create functional and reliable products that operate safely.37Create engineering product definition including models, drawings, and specifications for components, assemblies, and systems, in a timely and effective manner. 37Interface with vendors and in-house fabrication/assembly teams during design, prototype builds, and hardware validation testing.37Employ fully defined dimensioning schemes, use GD&T and statistics to ensure cross product compatibility, and verify mechanical fit using tolerance stack-up analysis tools. 37Provide ongoing technical support to production effort with engineering change orders to make design changes that improve producibility or reliability.37Work collaboratively with all disciplines to prepare and present customer briefings, design reviews, and other pertinent programmatic information.37Additional responsibilities may be levied on the Design Engineer to meet critical business needs and operational deadlines. Additional duties can include hardware assembly, validation testing, engineering planning, hardware kitting, courier activities and more. Relevant Experience and Requirements: 37Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering.372+ years of professional product design experience, or a master's degree with product design experience. 3D CAD design experience (Creo Parametric and Windchill PLM preferred).37Functional knowledge of aerospace material, treatments, and processes.37Able to generate strong design solutions for components, assemblies, tooling, and test fixtures necessary to build propulsion system hard hardware.37Strong knowledge and practical ability to implement and analyze GD&T per (ASME Y14.5).37Dynamic team player who can work effectively and proactively on cross-functional teams. Employment Criteria: To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Employment Statement: The responsibilities described on this document are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee. The scope of the job may also change as necessitated by business demands. Pay: Annual Salary $70,000 - $100,000 DOE Note about pay range: Pay range for this job level is a general guideline for California and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. Employment Type and Exempt Status: Full-time / Exempt Employement Location: Thousand Oaks - In office Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off Benefits: 10-12 company paid holidays Vacation days and Sick days 401(k) w/company matching Medical Dental, Vision, Life Health savings account or Flexible spending account

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