Senior Mechanical Engineer
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Job description
Mechanical design engineer role at Wingtra, taking a new aircraft from concept through qualification and industrialization to series production. Embedded in the engineering team, the role owns mechanical design, qualification and ramp-up of new product platforms.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Zürich
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Take a new aircraft from concept to series production, working in a small team with electronics designers and test engineers
- Design, build and test lightweight parts and assemblies, then improve them until they are ready for production
- Choose materials and processes, balancing performance, volumes, unit cost, tooling investment and lead times
- Own DFX: design for manufacturing, assembly, quality, cost and serviceability, settling tolerances, interfaces and process constraints early
- Partner with sourcing on technical feasibility, tooling and part iterations
- Qualify parts with the intended production materials and processes and agree product-specific acceptance criteria with test engineers
- Deliver the production-ready product file: CAD, 2D drawings, tolerances, BOMs, material and process specifications and acceptance criteria
- Hand over a running line and the product file to Production and Production Engineering once qualification gates have passed and ramp-up is complete
What we're looking for
- Several years of experience taking mechanical products through the full lifecycle: prototype, series production and quality monitoring at the customer
- Strong in CAD (Solidworks/PDM preferred), tolerance analysis and material selection
- Practical experience with injection molding as well as additive manufacturing for functional plastic parts
- Prototype fast and pragmatically, then qualify and document with discipline
- Hands-on work: builds, testing and working with suppliers
- Use AI for design exploration, qualification planning and data analysis, checking its output and sharing new workflows
- Curious, flexible and collaborative, with a real drive to build the next great thing
Nice to have
- Experience on structurally critical products at volumes of hundreds to a few thousand units
Your team
Engineering team
A small team with electronics designers and test engineers, with direct feedback from prototypes, flight tests and production builds
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About Wingtra
Venture-backed robotics scaleup founded more than 8 years ago at ETH Zurich, Europe's leading robotics university, with a global and international team of 125+ dedicated Wingtranauts. Wingtra provides efficient and reliable data solutions to a variety of industries ranging from mining, construction and agriculture to humanitarian organizations, environmentalists and wildlife monitoring groups.
Mission
Build the best aerial robots to digitize the world at the push of a button and set the basis for faster and better decisions
Key facts
- 125+
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Robotics
- Founded more than 8 years ago at ETH Zurich
- Venture-backed robotics scaleup
- Global and international team of 125+ Wingtranauts
- Early adopters of AI, actively building agentic workflows across engineering
What they value
- Open communication
- Asking hard questions
- Valuing diverse viewpoints
- Never stop learning
- Help each other reach maximum potential
- Feedback-driven culture