Mechanical Design Engineer, Unmanned Systems

The role

You will design mechanisms, enclosures, and physical integration of on-board systems into UAV platforms. You will work from concept trade-off to CAD, flight test, and production introduction.

What you will do

• Translate mission-needs into hardware requirements and trade-off design concepts
• Design and refine sealed avionics enclosures, cooling concepts, interfaces, connection and release mechanisms, packaging and integration into UAVs and ground systems
• Build, rework, and test hardware in simulation, test rigs and in flight
• Analyze and improve designs via simulation and real-world testing including exercises with partners and armed forces
• Document and industrialize work in collaboration with manufacturing partner network

Required qualifications

• M.Sc. in Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering or a related field
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in hardware design and development
• Highly proficient in 3D modelling (CAD)
• Creating production-quality drawings
• Familiar with selection and sizing of structural elements, fasteners, interfaces and thermal paths
• Understand kinematics, packaging and electro-mechanical systems
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Onshape
• German is a plus
• Experience in designing lightweight electronic enclosures for harsh conditions
• Independently prototyped and tested mechanisms and seen them through refinement cycles into production
• Experience with ISO GD&T, DFM/DFA, FEA interpretation and material selection
• Thermal design and analysis for compact electronics or similar systems
• Hardware testing & qualification experience (ideally including MIL-STD thermal, vibration, etc.)
• Skilled in designing fixtures and test-rigs
• Familiarity with light UAVs or aircraft systems or defense equipment

Benefits

• High-quality and modern toolset
• Flat hierarchy
• AI-boosted workplace with best-in-class AI tools and agents
• Real stock to participate directly in SE3's growth
• 31 Paid Days Off (30 vacation days plus birthday off)
• Free membership to gyms, yoga, and wellness through EGYM Wellpass
• 2 company retreats per year
• Professional mentor

Before you apply

• Intro Call (20 min)
• Technical Interview (60 min)
• Team Dinner/Lunch

About the company

SE3 Labs is building Spatial AI by combining 3D computer vision with large language models (LLMs). They are building the physical platform to bring Spatial AI to life through high-performance, real-world robotic systems.