Posted on:January 3, 2025

Senior Aero-Mechanical Engineer - Advanced Systems Engineering Integration and Design Optimization at Orb Aerospace

Orb Aerospace is hiring a Senior Aero-Mechanical Engineer - Advanced Systems Engineering Integration and Design Optimization in Lowell, MI, US. On-site. Pay: USD 130k-175k/yr.

About Orb Aerospace

Orb Aerospace builds resilient communications and autonomous systems for critical operations in areas where infrastructure may fail. Its ARC Edge field kit combines broadband, cellular, and satellite networks into a single self-healing link with failover in under 50 milliseconds. The company also develops the Lassie autonomous aircraft, with the goal of making aviation accessible. Its systems are intended for use in unregulated, contested, and disaster-hit areas.

Senior Aero-Mechanical Engineer - Advanced Systems Engineering Integration and Design Optimization job description

US Citizen or Permanent Resident 
In-Person 
Fall 2026 Start
 
5+ Years’ Experience Req. Successful Program Experience 
 
Join us in retuning to a 1940’s design cadence, reducing the cycle time for aircraft design, build and fly – Integrating advanced design tools and experimenting with unconventional planforms. We are reindustrializing the Midwest as Michigan’s first airframe prime since the Second World War. We’releveraging our region’s industrial might and airspace to build aircraft that become decentralized infrastructure. Orb is a small mission-driven team where your initiative, creativity, and dedication will be used to reach every village on the planet with power, logistics, and communications.  
 
Your Role at Orb: We’re establishing a low overhead, fast paced, experimental aircraft development environment that allows new design ideas, tools, and processes to be tested and go to market in an entirely new category of aircraft. We’re giving a passionate engineer with a history of designing, optimizing and shepherding aircraft cradle-to-grave an opportunity to test their ideas in the interests of building the best aircraft to have the highest impact on the greatest number of people. You should have a passion for efficient, multifunctional teams and the experience to lead others in the interested of rapid execution on exciting new air platforms.   
 
If you’re ready to take ownership, embrace complexity, and thrive in a role where your work truly matters, we’d love to hear from you. 

Key Responsibilities

  • Aircraft Design, Configuration, Analysis, and Trade Studies 
  • Engineering First Principals Driven Multi-Disciplinary Systems Engineering from RF to Propulsion and Structures 
  • Spool up Aircraft Design Tools Like CFD,   
  • Incorporate Multi-Disciplinary Optimization and Establish Design Tools / Processes 
  • Incorporate With Every Discipline from Conceptual Design to Flight Test 
  • Desired Skills and Qualifications

  • Demonstrated Experience in Wholistic Aircraft Design, Aero, Mechanical, and Systems Integration. 
  • Demonstrated Success inBuilding Unconventional Air Platforms 
  • Long Term Commitment to Orbs Mission 
  • Expert in CAD E.G. Siemens NX, Solid Works, Catia or Similar 
  • Expert in Simulation of Loads and Aerodynamic Forces 
  • Experienced in Conceptual Design Tools and Multi-Disciplinary Optimization 
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