Airframe Design Engineer — CATIA​/D

Position: Airframe Design Engineer — CATIA / 3DEXPERIENCE

Create the aircraft hardware that brings driving and flying together. Turn ASKA’s airframe concepts into lightweight, manufacturable parts and assemblies, working directly with the team building and testing the vehicle.

Design ASKA’s airframe and its mechanical installation interfaces as a hands-on mechanical or aerospace engineer. Working under the Lead Airframe Design Engineer, you will create aircraft geometry, composite and metallic structures, detailed CATIA models, drawings and assembly definitions, then support prototype manufacture and integration. Previous hands-on aircraft and eVTOL design experience is required.

Employment Full-time proposed

Location & work arrangement Eagle Field
· Palo Alto area / remote for analysis and design to be defined; hands-on integration and test visits to be discussed

Detailed airframe geometry, composite and metallic mechanical design, installation packaging and controlled design releases for assigned assemblies.

Key working interfaces

The Lead Airframe Design Engineer owns airframe geometry, structural layout, physical packaging and design decisions; the Airframe Design Engineer creates detailed parts and assemblies. Loads supplies aircraft load cases and aeroelastic assessments. Stress evaluates strength, buckling, fatigue and structural margins and recommends design changes. Airframe Design implements and releases geometry changes. Mass Properties maintains weight/CG records. Propeller engineering owns blades and hubs;
Aircraft Systems coordinates vehicle requirements and subsystem integration.

What you’ll do

• Develop airframe concepts and detailed fuselage, wing, frame, panel, joint, fitting and attachment designs against allocated geometry, load and integration requirements.
• Create and maintain parametric parts, surfaces and assemblies in Dassault Systèmes 3
  
  DEXPERIENCE CATIA, including controlled drawings, GD&T, bills of material and composite ply definitions where applicable.
• Design physical packaging and structural interfaces for propulsion, batteries, landing and road systems, folding mechanisms and equipment installations with their subsystem owners.
• Develop composite and metallic load-path, laminate and joint concepts with stress and materials specialists; implement their analysis-driven design recommendations.
• Check clearances, tolerances, assembly sequence, fastener access, inspectability and repair or maintenance access in the complete vehicle configuration.
• Work with manufacturing and tooling engineers through prototype builds, resolve fit and assembly problems and release controlled design improvements.
• Maintain design rationale and revision history, and deliver assigned design packages for review by the Lead Airframe Design Engineer.
• Develop and improve repeatable checks for CAD, drawings, interfaces and assembly fit within assigned design work; document review findings and use prototype discrepancies to strengthen design-quality checks with the lead engineer.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering, or equivalent demonstrated aircraft mechanical-design expertise.
• Typically 5+ years of hands-on aircraft mechanical or airframe design, with personally delivered parts or assemblies taken into prototype manufacture or aircraft integration.
• Required previous hands-on airframe or aircraft mechanical-design work on an eVTOL development program; identify the program, components and design deliverables you personally owned.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on Dassault Systèmes 3
  
  DEXPERIENCE CATIA experience creating controlled parts, surfaces, assemblies and engineering drawings.
• Experience designing aircraft composite and metallic structures, joints and attachments, with practical understanding of load paths, manufacturing…