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Mid LevelFull-time
Salary Range
$102,000 - $138,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
Amca is seeking a Mechanical Test Engineer to help design and test new hardware for aircraft. You will assist design engineers with rapid testing to validate new product designs and expand Amca's product catalog.
Key Responsibilities
- →Develop rapid solutions for test equipment for qualification of structural, pneumatic, or hydraulic hardware
- →Work with Design Engineers to understand end-use applications and develop qualification test plans
- →Take full ownership of test stand design including 3D modeling, structural analysis, detailed drawings, component and material selection, and build
- →Support execution of qualification tests for new hardware
- →Assist in developing software/PLC/logic required to execute tests
- →Build acceptance test solutions for production test
- →Work with design engineers to develop acceptance test plans for new hardware
- →Build out acceptance testing hardware that optimizes reliability, lead time, and labor
- →Assist in developing software suite that enables easy test execution
- →Evaluate product catalogs and help determine where largest opportunities lie for catalog expansion
- →Assist in the evaluation of subsidiary design, manufacturing, and test capabilities
Requirements
- ✓Exceptionally curious and fast learner; able to contribute across diverse part categories and manufacturing processes
- ✓Demonstrated ability to use engineering first principles to challenge and simplify requirements
- ✓Hands-on and practical—comfortable building, testing, and troubleshooting in real-world environments
- ✓Independent and creative; thrives with ownership and minimal oversight
- ✓Experience with mechanical design, applying first-principles thinking to structural, thermal, fluid, and production constraints
- ✓Proficient in CAD, PLM/PDM systems, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
- ✓Experience in hands calcs and basic FEM
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