Founding Mechanical Engineer

As a Founding Mechanical Engineer at Voltair, you will own airframe development and reliability testing of an all-weather, autonomous aircraft designed to enable persistent observability of the largest physical infrastructure in the world.
Key Responsibilities

• Airframe Weatherization. Design and implement sealing, gasketing, thermal anti-ice systems, conformal coating, and other environmental protection measures to ensure our robots can fly into rain, snow, and smoke.
• Thermal Management and avionics packaging Collaborate with electrical engineers to define component placement, thermal management, cable routing, and access panels. Balance CG, serviceability and EMI considerations.
• DFM iteration: Refine airframe manufacturing methods for manufacturing at scale. Reduce part count, define tolerances, and work with contract manufacturers.
• Charging Pad Mechanisms: Own the mechanical design of electromechanical systems both on the pad and on the airframe to ensure reliable alignment and capture.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• CAD: Mastery of SolidWorks/Onshape for assembly design
• Analysis & Simulation: Proficiency in FEA and Modal Analysis
• Design for Manufacturing (DFM): Experience optimizing designs for composite layups
• Reliability Engineering: A track record of designing test fixtures and performing reliability testing for electromechanical systems.

Compensation

The base pay range for this role is $100,000 – $165,000 per year.