Senior Mechanical Test Engineer, Reliable Robotics Corporation

• B.S. Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Software Engineering, or equivalent industry experience
• 8+ years experience working in hardware test
• Strong knowledge of mechanical engineering fundamentals
• Proven track record of qualifying hardware in a highly regulated industry
• Familiarity with environmental qualification testing standards (MIL-STD-810, RTCA DO-160, or similar)

Desirable

• As a Sr. Mechanical Test Engineer at Reliable Robotics, you will be an integral part of the mechanical engineering team
• We’re looking for a broadly experienced individual that combines the fields of mechanical, electrical, and software engineering to help us develop our mechanical testing operation
• This is a clean slate opportunity to grow our primitive test operations into a production worthy operation
• We need you to break our development hardware, identify root causes, and help redesign it
• We need you to design automated acceptance test stands to identify manufacturing flaws
• We need you to integrate load cells and data acquisition systems onto our testbed aircraft
• Lead the development of mechanical test stands for functional and environmental qualification testing
• Specify, source, and integrate required instrumentation
• Automate the repetitive aspects of the test stands
• Author, execute, and audit test plans, procedures, and reports
• Perform data analysis and data reviews
• Collaborate with the rest of the team to improve the flight hardware
• As a senior member of our team, you will play a key role in the development of the novel hardware that will transform the future of flight
• From component level thermal testing to instrumenting our aircraft with a sensor suite for flight testing, you will also closely interface with our software, avionics, and flight operations teams as we ramp up our testing operations
• The cross-functional nature of this role also lends itself to mentoring opportunities across the entire company