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Requirements

Technical Mentorship: Provide hands-on guidance to the mechanical engineering team, elevating design quality, analytical rigor, and engineering judgment across the group. Actuator & Mechanism Development Electromechanical Actuator Design: Lead development of precision electromechanical actuators integrating motors, geartrains, lead screws, encoders, braking systems, and structural housings for flight and industrial applications. Geartrain & Drivetrain Expertise: Apply deep knowledge of gear ratios, backlash control, lubrication, and AGMA standards to drivetrain design decisions.

Mechanism Integration: Own packaging and integration of actuator sub-systems including precision bearings, seals, thermal interfaces, and position feedback elements within tight volumetric and mass constraints.

Architecture: Translate mission-level needs into quantified functional, performance, and interface

for mechanical assemblies. Aerospace Standards & Qualification Standards Compliance: Own mechanical compliance to applicable aerospace and defense standards including DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-PRF-27369, and AS9100.

early and drive design-to-compliance from inception. Qualification Strategy: Architect qualification and acceptance test programs including test equipment design, procedure development, and formal execution.

to test evidence. Environmental & Structural Survivability: Guide design decisions for performance in high-vibration, thermal extreme, and vacuum environments. Apply fatigue, margin of safety, and life analysis to qualify structural and dynamic hardware.

5 GD&T on all drawings. Ensure drawing packages support both manufacturing and inspection to aerospace quality levels. Operations & Cross-Functional Collaboration Team Building: Hire, develop, and retain mechanical engineers.

Who We Are

We are pioneering modular motion technologies to power the next generation of innovation for Industrial, Aerospace and Defense. If you're excited about disrupting legacy industries, and passionate about building the financial infrastructure behind cutting-edge hardware, let's chat! We are at the forefront of innovation, crafting exclusive motion control components that propel the industrial, aerospace, and defense sectors into the future.

Benefits

We are well funded, and already generating revenue We're currently in Torrance, CA, but will be moving into a new facility in Hawthorne, CA in the summer!

What You'Ll Do

: We are looking for a technically deep, hands-on Head of Mechanical Engineering to own our mechanical engineering function end-to-end. This is a senior leadership role that combines deep product expertise in electromechanical actuators with the organizational authority to set engineering direction, enforce aerospace standards, and build a high-performing team. You will serve as the technical authority for all mechanical systems and be accountable for product integrity from concept through qualification and production.

Technical Leadership & Oversight Engineering Authority: Serve as the final technical decision-maker for all mechanical designs. Review and approve engineering drawings, analyses, and design packages across the actuator product line. Deep Product Ownership: Maintain comprehensive system-level knowledge of all actuator products including kinematic architecture, load paths, drivetrain design, thermal management, and qualification status.

Responsibilities

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