Mechanical Engineer

Heaviside, Los Angeles

What you will do

Own the mechanical design of munition airframe structures, mechanisms, and payload packaging from concept through production at Heaviside's in-house LA factory.
Lead structural design and analysis – hand calculations and FEA — for airframes subject to launch loads, flight loads, and terminal conditions.
Design for the tactical environment: gunfire/launch shock, vibration, thermal extremes, and moisture per MIL-STD-810, with qualification campaigns to prove it.
Drive design-for-manufacture across composites, machined metallics, and additive processes, working directly with Heaviside's in-house production and RF production teams on integrated builds.
Own thermal management design for dense avionics and RF payload packaging in small tactical airframes.
Develop single-use-reliability mechanisms: wing/fin deployment, tube-launch separation, folding aerosurfaces, and actuation systems.

Heaviside, Los Angeles

$75K–$90K

a year

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Own the mechanical design of munition airframe structures, mechanisms, and payload packaging from concept through production at Heaviside's in-house LA factory.
Lead structural design and analysis – hand calculations and FEA — for airframes subject to launch loads, flight loads, and terminal conditions.
Design for the tactical environment: gunfire/launch shock, vibration, thermal extremes, and moisture per MIL-STD-810, with qualification campaigns to prove it.
Drive design-for-manufacture across composites, machined metallics, and additive processes, working directly with Heaviside's in-house production and RF production teams on integrated builds.
Own thermal management design for dense avionics and RF payload packaging in small tactical airframes.
Develop single-use-reliability mechanisms: wing/fin deployment, tube-launch separation, folding aerosurfaces, and actuation systems.