Senior Aero-Mechanical Engineer - Advanced Systems Engineering Integration and Design Optimization

US Citizen or Permanent Resident 

In-Person 

Starts Immediately 

5+ Years’ Experience Req. Successful Program Experience 

Join us in retuning to a 1940’s design cadence, reducing the cycle time for aircraft design, build and fly – Integrating advanced design tools and experimenting with unconventional planforms. We are reindustrializing the Midwest as Michigan’s first airframe prime since the Second World War. We’releveraging our region’s industrial might and airspace to build aircraft that become decentralized infrastructure. Orb is a small mission-driven team where your initiative, creativity, and dedication will be used to reach every village on the planet with power, logistics, and communications.  

Your Role at Orb: We’re establishing a low overhead, fast paced, experimental aircraft development environment that allows new design ideas, tools, and processes to be tested and go to market in an entirely new category of aircraft. We’re giving a passionate engineer with a history of designing, optimizing and shepherding aircraft cradle-to-grave an opportunity to test their ideas in the interests of building the best aircraft to have the highest impact on the greatest number of people. You should have a passion for efficient, multifunctional teams and the experience to lead others in the interested of rapid execution on exciting new air platforms.   

If you’re ready to take ownership, embrace complexity, and thrive in a role where your work truly matters, we’d love to hear from you. 

• Aircraft Design, Configuration, Analysis, and Trade Studies 
• Engineering First Principals Driven Multi-Disciplinary Systems Engineering from RF to Propulsion and Structures 
• Spool up Aircraft Design Tools Like CFD,   
• Incorporate Multi-Disciplinary Optimization and Establish Design Tools / Processes 
• Incorporate With Every Discipline from Conceptual Design to Flight Test 

• Demonstrated Experience in Wholistic Aircraft Design, Aero, Mechanical, and Systems Integration. 
• Demonstrated Success inBuilding Unconventional Air Platforms 
• Long Term Commitment to Orbs Mission 
• Expert in CAD E.G. Siemens NX, Solid Works, Catia or Similar 
• Expert in Simulation of Loads and Aerodynamic Forces 
• Experienced in Conceptual Design Tools and Multi-Disciplinary Optimization 

About Orb Aerospace: Orb was started with the mission to bring aviation to the 80% of the world that’s never had it; turning autonomous aircraft into tools to decentralize infrastructure, connect continents, protect soldiers, provide for families, and run economies.“Less like the flying taxis, more like the flying cowboys,” Orb is at the intersection of manned and unmanned aviation, reindustrializing the Midwest, and building the- future we know is possible and want to live in.   

About Node One: Node One is a small team of engineers and operators who have dedicated their lives to solving some of the world’s hardest problems through a new kind of aviation - Orb’s live-work-fly R&D HQ. Node One is all about reducing the cycle time to design, build, and fly aircraft from years to months and building the systems and platforms we’ll use to reach every village on the planet.  

We stand on the shoulders of giants. Their great work allows us to accomplish ours. If you’ve been a rocket/airplane nerd and have a passion for designing, building, and flying airframes, autopilots, power systems, and embedded systems, or you love to push a new product through new manufacturing methods to a new market, come join the team at Node One and make history. 

Orb Employees Are: 

High Agency and Biased Towards Action 

Have a History of Self-Starting, Pacing, and Finishing Projects 

Thrive with Autonomy to Design New Solutions to Partially Defined Problems 

Are Curious and Continue Learning 

Have Integrity and a Desire to Serve Others 

Standard Benefits Package:  

Orb provides a monthly flat rate towards medical, dental, and vision 

$500 flat rate for individuals; $850 flat rate for married/family 

Medical, Vision, Dental, Short/Long Term Disability, and Group/Voluntary Life Insurance 

Opt-In 401K Options (Pre-Tax or Roth) with a 3% Employer Match 

Perks:  

Support in Getting your Pilots License and Ratings 

Support for Continuing Education 

Annual Customer Demos all over the World