Top Engineering Jobs in Seattle, WA

Lead the architecture, roadmap, and delivery of electrical test equipment for X-BAT aircraft systems. Define reusable hardware, software, safety, calibration, and documentation standards; manage complex test programs from requirements through deployment; improve reliability and diagnosability; support design-for-testability; lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions; manage vendors and build-versus-buy decisions; and mentor engineers across the organization.

Leads a mechanical engineering team responsible for designing, analyzing, building, and validating X-BAT hardware test stands, fixtures, tooling, and support systems. Owns requirements, detailed design, fabrication, assembly, documentation, and deployment. Performs structural and thermal assessments, applies GD&T and DFM/DFA practices, coordinates with cross-functional teams and vendors, supports troubleshooting, and improves test processes, quality, and execution.

Design and develop RF and microwave modules for airborne and ground systems, from requirements and circuit design through PCB layout, laboratory verification, qualification, and production release. Perform RF simulation, electromagnetic analysis, hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, and characterization. Collaborate with mechanical, thermal, avionics, manufacturing, and test teams while supporting integration, environmental qualification, production testing, and flight testing.

Leads structural analysis for autonomous aircraft and UAV airframes, including finite element modeling, static, modal, fatigue, vibration, and damage-tolerance analyses. Establishes analysis methods, validates models, correlates results with structural testing, and drives structural optimization. Reviews technical deliverables, supports design reviews and flight testing, mentors analysts, and collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering teams to meet aircraft performance, weight, cost, and manufacturability objectives.

Design PCB layouts for complex digital, analog, RF, high-speed, and power electronics used in aircraft. Responsibilities include stack-up planning, schematic interpretation, component placement, routing, signal and power integrity, thermal and EMI mitigation, design reviews, manufacturing documentation, and DFM collaboration with vendors and manufacturing engineers.

Supports quality engineering throughout XBAT aerospace product development, including product risk management, design and manufacturing reviews, root cause analysis, nonconformance management, change control, verification and validation, First Article Inspection, audits, and quality documentation. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, test, supply chain, and program management teams to transition the product toward production while embedding quality into development processes.

Lead aircraft reliability engineering across development, integration, testing, and operations. Establish reliability requirements and budgets, perform predictions and analyses including FMEA, FTA, RBD, and Weibull analysis, manage FRACAS and reliability growth activities, analyze test and field data, assess supplier performance, and recommend design improvements. Communicate reliability risks and metrics to engineering leadership and customers while mentoring junior engineers and improving organizational processes.

Performs structural analysis and testing for advanced UAV airframes and components. Builds finite element models, conducts static, modal, fatigue, vibration, and shock analyses, validates results through hand calculations, and analyzes telemetry and test data. Collaborates with engineering teams to optimize lightweight composite and metallic structures for strength, weight, safety, and manufacturability. Documents technical findings and supports structural test planning, certification, and continuous improvement of analysis methods.

Designs, integrates, verifies, and releases electrical systems for autonomous aircraft and support equipment. Responsibilities include architecture, custom circuitry, embedded sensors, circuit design, part selection, simulation, debugging, production release, automated testing, and firmware integration. Leads design reviews, coordinates with cross-functional teams, manages project deliverables, mentors engineers, and improves hardware development processes and aircraft reliability.

Develop and qualify materials and manufacturing processes for flight-critical autonomous aircraft hardware. Maintain material, process, and QA specifications; guide fatigue and corrosion prevention; support environmental qualification testing; design qualification test plans; collaborate with suppliers and multifunctional teams; assist with nonconformance disposition; and select materials and processes for production.