# Mechanical Design Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

We are seeking a highly motivated, trained, and talented Mechanical Design Engineer to work at our Huntsville, AL campus providing support to a variety of design and integration programs related to missile systems and unmanned aircraft.

The Mechanical Design Engineer will be responsible for:

- Designing and integrating mechanical aspects of airborne systems (missiles and unmanned aircraft)

- Working independently as part of a broader multi-disciplined engineering team

- Collaborating with project teams to formulate innovative solutions to complex problems and products across a broad range of applications

- Coordinating with purchasing department and outside machine shops to procure hardware

- Working in a lab environment testing and assembling hardware

- Working closely with manufacturing teams to facilitate the transition from prototype hardware to a deliverable product

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree with 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Master's degree with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience

- Experience with CAD (particularly SOLIDWORKS), fabrication drawings, and intermediate to advanced modeling techniques

- In-depth experience in mechanical design principles, theories, and application

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

- Ability to collaborate constructively within a multi-disciplinary team

- Willingness to try and learn new skills, and/or to refine existing skills

- Knowledge of and ability to use common hand tools

- Availability to travel to support testing and other events (initially around 10%, on average)

- Ability to perform physical work such as lifting up to 30-lbs

- Active SECRET security clearance or higher

Preferred Qualifications:

- Prior experience with design, development, and testing of flight hardware (missiles, UAVs, etc.)

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## Skills

### Required
- CAD
- SOLIDWORKS
- mechanical design
- fabrication drawings
- modeling techniques
- mechanical design principles
- communication skills
- team collaboration
- hand tools

### Nice to have
- flight hardware
- missiles
- UAVs

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