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KLX Energy Services

Mechanic

Gillette, WY · On-site

At KLX, you'll work side-by-side with devoted professionals. You'll enjoy the benefits of a strong ... We are currently seeking a Mechanic for our Gillette, WY location. PURPOSE: Performs physical tasks ...

Scranton Auto Group

Power Sports Technician

Vernon, CT · On-site

APPLICANTS SHOULD BE WELL VERSED IN THE MECHANICAL SIDE OF THE POWER SPORTS INDUSTRY. FROM OIL CHANGES, BUILDING AND UNCRATING MERCHANDISE TO ENGINE AND ELECTRICAL DIAGNOSTICS WE ARE NEW ENGLANDS ...

Eaton Steel Corporation

Side Loader Operator

Oak Park, MI · On-site

$16.25 - $21.50/hr

The Side Loader Operator plays a critical role in the efficient collection and transportation of ... Attention to detail and mechanical aptitude are essential to identify and report any equipment ...

KLX Energy Services

Mechanic

Pleasanton, TX · On-site

At KLX, you'll work side-by-side with devoted professionals. You'll enjoy the benefits of a strong ... We are currently seeking a Mechanic for our Pleasanton, TX location. PURPOSE: Performs physical ...

RSS Trailer Repair

Trailer Mechanic Trainee

Macon, GA

$18 - $22/hr

Work side-by-side with a Trailer Mechanic. * Help perform repairs and maintenance on semi-trailers - keeping trailers in compliance with DOT safety standards. * Essential tasks will include changing ...

RSS Trailer Repair

Trailer Mechanic Trainee

Ottawa, IL

$18 - $21/hr

Work side-by-side with a Trailer Mechanic. * Help perform repairs and maintenance on semi-trailers - keeping trailers in compliance with DOT safety standards. * Essential tasks will include changing ...

SA Recycling

Mechanic

Birmingham, AL

Our Mechanics will preform all aspects of preventative maintenance on company owned tractors and ... Patch holes in trailers and/or containers side panels, floors, or roofs as needed. * Maintain ...

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Mechanical Engineer -- Munition System

Lya Collective

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Posted 2 days ago

Job description

A client is building a small, safety-critical kinetic munition delivered by an FPV-class airframe. The system carries an electro mechanical safe and arm device (EMSAD) governed by a seven-state safety-arm-fire state machine, electromechanical safing features, and sensor suite. Everything has to survive flight loads, drops, vibration, and field handling — and fail safe at every step.

You will own the mechanical side end-to-end: from concept and CAD through prototypes, testing, and the transfer to production. This is a full-time on-site position with locations in either,

  • San Francisco, CA.
  • Los Angeles, CA.
  • Washington, DC.

What you'll do

  • Design the munition housing, internal structure, and arming mechanism (S&A train, transport pin, motor-driven elements) in CAD.
  • Define the mechanical safety architecture together with the HW and SW leads — interlocks, out-of-line geometry, transport-pin retention, drop/impact behavior.
  • Spec materials, finishes, tolerances, and fasteners for the operating environment (temperature, vibration, humidity, salt fog as relevant).
  • Build prototypes in-house (3D print, CNC) and run iteration loops; hand off drawings and DFM packages to external machinists / injection-mold vendors.
  • Plan and execute mechanical qualification: drop, shock, vibration, environmental, mass-properties / CG checks, integration with the airframe.
  • Own the BOM, weight budget, and CG budget. Track them like the safety-critical numbers they are.
  • Work directly alongside the HW and SW engineers — PCB outline, connector placement, harnessing, mechanism actuation requirements come out of these conversations.

Required

  • 5+ years designing mechanical assemblies that go into the field — UAV payloads, defense, automotive, aerospace, or similar regulated/rugged domains.
  • Fluency in a parametric CAD tool (SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Onshape, Creo, NX).
  • Comfort producing manufacturing-ready drawings: GD&T, tolerance stacks, surface finishes, fits.
  • Hands-on with prototyping: FDM/SLA printers, mill, lathe, basic machining sense.
  • Strong intuition for failure modes — you've broken things deliberately and know which question to ask next.
  • Working English, written and verbal.

Nice to have

  • Experience with safety & arming (S&A) mechanisms, fuzing, pyrotechnics, or anything else that has to be unambiguously safe before it's allowed to be dangerous.
  • Familiarity with MIL-STD-810 (environmental), MIL-STD-331 (fuze tests), or equivalent civilian standards.
  • FEA / structural simulation (Ansys, SolidWorks Simulation, Onshape FEA).
  • Injection-mold and metal-casting DFM.
  • FPV / small-UAV background — payload integration, mass/CG sensitivity.

How we work

Small team, short cycles, weekly hardware iterations. You'll have a desk next to the HW and SW engineers and a lab with prototyping kit. We expect you to be opinionated, to design for testability from day one, and to push back when the constraints do not make engineering sense.