Sr. Mechanical Engineer

At Teledyne FLIR in Orem, UT we design and manufacture high quality drones to carry the best sensors into the toughest environments. Our extensive history includes working alongside organizations including U.S. Army, Marines, and US DOD Special Operations Community. We embrace cutting edge innovative technologies and design concepts to bring new capability to our warfighters. As an original equipment manufacturer of Drones (UAS), we are at the forefront of new American engineering and manufacturing technologies.

The foundation of our company is the drive to build superior UAS through engineering excellence. You can expect diverse challenges that will require you to be agile and innovative in your work. You can also expect to be on a small team that strives to meet these challenges together. UAS development and the UAS market is still young and constantly changing.

Your work will be varied and innovative by nature.

The Sr. Mechanical Engineer designs and develops lightweight, high‑performance mechanical structures and components for unmanned systems. This role focuses on structural optimization, aerodynamics, and low‑mass design, using CAD, analysis, testing, and prototyping to deliver durable, manufacturable solutions. The engineer owns designs from concept through production and sustainment, collaborating closely with cross‑functional teams, suppliers, and manufacturing to ensure performance, quality, and schedule.

This position requires technical leadership, strong design ownership, and the ability to translate high‑level requirements into robust, production‑ready hardware.

• Utilize your experience with lightweight structural design and materials to design key components and structures for our current generation unmanned systems.
• Optimize for aerodynamic profiles and efficiencies.
• Utilize Finite Element Analysis (FEA), experiments, and rapid prototyping to design products for durability, performance, and manufacturing quality.
• Develop and conduct tests to validate design across full operational capability envelope and environment.
• Deliver market leading designs with Design for Manufacturing (DFM)/Design for Assembly (DFA) methods and techniques.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills; active collaboration with team leads, management, and other team members is expected. The Sr. Mechanical Engineer takes broad, high‑level requirements and feedback to generate specific design tasks and outcomes; owns and drives meetings as applicable.
• Take strong ownership of assigned systems, programs, customers, etc. Actively curate subsystem requirements, performance, and timeline. Require very little direction from management in moving projects forward against agreed upon timelines.
• Coordinate with suppliers during development and production.
• Coordinate with production staff to provide training, Manufacturing Test Requirements (MTRs), work instruction review, and troubleshooting of design issues.
• Create and control design data from concept to product sustainment; support engineering change processes within Teledyne FLIR and with government customers as required.

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering required.
• 6+ years of professional experience in mechanical design of weight and size sensitive assemblies and components.
• Strong part and assembly design experience showing optimization for stiffness and low mass.
• Demonstrated strong record of technical innovation, research, and development of complex mechanical systems.
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated experience in technologies that can be successfully applied to drone developments.
• Experience with PDM tools and understanding of configuration control practices.
• Experience with battery, motor, and/or UAV propulsion systems preferred.
• Expertise with Solidworks 3D modeling, drawing, and simulation software is strongly preferred.
• Experience leading technical projects and teams preferred.
• Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non‑merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.