Principal Electronics Mechanical Design Engineer

About This Role

This role involves designing and analyzing complex electronic modules and mechanical components for military and commercial aerospace OEM's, focusing on motor controllers and power electronics. The position requires conducting feasibility studies, supporting testing, and mentoring less experienced engineers within the Shelby team.

Responsibilities

• Design mechanical aspects of complex new electronic controllers, including component placement, attachment, and module packaging to meet customer specifications and manufacturability.
• Design and develop mechanical layouts for Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs), including component placement constraints and mounting hardware.
• Consider design requirements for environment, operation conditions, reliability, and durability in physical design.
• Determine technical objectives and develop innovative, practical solutions for technical engineering problems.
• Design for EMI/EMC shielding using gaskets, coatings, and specialized enclosure geometry to minimize electromagnetic interference.
• Support Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to validate designs against severe shock and vibration profiles (DO-160 or MIL-STD-810 or equivalent).
• Support Thermal Analysis to manage heat dissipation through conduction, convection, and radiation in both active and passively cooled systems.
• Assist test engineering, quality, and manufacturing in building, installing, debugging, and testing designed equipment to ensure production capabilities.
• Design and conduct development testing with Test Engineers, assisting with interpretation of results and report writing.
• Provide engineering design, field maintenance support, and guidance for manufacturing, quality, and supply chain organizations.
• Plan and coordinate the maintenance of assigned designs, including documentation, reporting, publishing, and presentations.
• Provide technical support to failure investigations and bid responses, taking a technical leadership role when requested.
• Assess any non-conforming product for engineering disposition as part of the MRB process.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering best practices documentation and training.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen
• Extensive experience creating mechanical designs for complex electronic controllers or similar electromechanical designs to meet detailed customer requirements and specifications.
• Experience with ruggedizing and integrating electronic components, printed circuit boards, wiring harnesses, cables, and connectors.
• Experience with designing and testing to meet requirements for thermal management, EMI/EMC, corrosion protection, manufacturability, and human factors.
• Familiarity with DO-160 environmental testing requirements and designing products to meet or exceed these requirements.
• Ability to take long-term engineering design and verification goals and break them down to manageable, near-term actions.
• Expert ability in 3D modeling and design (Siemens NX)
• Layout and drawing creation per ASME Y14.5 (Siemens NX)
• General understanding of aluminum alloys, composites, polymers, and thermal interface materials (Materials Science)

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 10+ years of experience

Nice to Have

• Commercial or military aerospace experience.
• Familiarity with IPC-2221, MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461 requirements in the design process.
• Experience interfacing with customer engineering and program management personnel.

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits