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We’re developing long-range VTOL aircraft, autonomy software, and the operational foundation needed to move critical payloads between hospitals, labs, and healthcare facilities on-demand faster and more reliably.\nWe’re early, small, and moving quickly. Joining now means you'll have a direct role in shaping the foundation of Haast - our culture, engineering process, testing discipline, partner relationships, and the path from prototype to a real medical logistics network.\nWe’re looking for high-agency people who want ownership, urgency, and system-level impact from day one.\nAbout the Role\nAs a Mechanical Design & Prototyping Engineer at Haast, you’ll help design and build the physical aircraft systems that make our autonomous aircraft network possible, with a strong emphasis on tailoring solutions to customer needs and prototyping user-focused experiences.\nYou’ll work across CAD, structures, prototyping, aircraft packaging, fixtures, payload integration, manufacturing, and flight-test support. This is a hands-on role focused on customer-first design, including design for manufacturing and usability. We’re looking for someone who can design a part, build it, install it, watch it fail, improve it, and get it ready for the next test-always with the end user and customer requirements in mind.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign and develop airframes, structures, mechanisms, mounts, fixtures, and prototype hardware with a focus on user experience and customer requirements.\n\nOwn CAD for key airframe and mechanical systems, ensuring designs are manufacturable and tailored to customer use cases.\n\nDesign payload bays, landing gear, motor mounts, avionics mounts, access panels, covers, brackets, internal structure, and payload compartments optimized for user accessibility and operational efficiency.\n\nBuild prototypes using 3D printing, composites, foam, carbon fiber, hand tools, and other rapid fabrication methods, continuously iterating based on user testing and feedback.\n\nCreate detailed part drawings, assembly documentation, BOMs, and revision history focused on clarity and ease of use for manufacturing and customer support.\n\nWork with avionics and controls engineers to package sensors, wiring, batteries, antennas, and payload interfaces that support real-world use scenarios.\n\nImprove the aircraft for buildability, repairability, serviceability, usability, and repeatability.\n\nSupport aircraft assembly, pre-flight inspections, field repairs, post-test teardown, and customer-driven design changes.\n\nTrack mass properties, center of gravity, structural changes, manufacturing constraints, and customer impact.\n\nHelp move Haast from one-off prototypes toward aircraft hardware that can support a real autonomous medical logistics network, with customer experience at the core.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nStrong CAD skills in SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Onshape, CATIA, NX, or similar.\n\nExperience building real hardware and iterating with customer feedback, not just designing it.\n\nGood mechanical intuition around structures, load paths, fasteners, adhesives, vibration, packaging, manufacturability, and usability.\n\nComfortable working with 3D printing, composites, foam, carbon fiber, basic shop tools, and rapid prototyping in service of user-centered solutions.\n\nAbility to move quickly without being sloppy, while maintaining customer-focused quality.\n\nStrong ownership and initiative. You don’t wait around for perfect requirements and proactively engage with user-related challenges.\n\nGood documentation habits so the team can actually track what changed and how it addresses customer needs.\n\nExcitement to work in a startup environment where the aircraft, process, and company are all being built at the same time, centered on customer-driven design.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience with UAVs, RC aircraft, fixed-wing aircraft, VTOL aircraft, robotics, motorsports, or aerospace hardware.\n\nComposite layup, vacuum bagging, mold design, or foam-core construction experience.\n\nExperience with lightweight aircraft structures, spars, ribs, motor mounts, control surfaces, or landing gear.\n\nFamiliarity with aircraft CG, stability, vibration, thermal, avionics packaging, and user experience constraints.\n\nExperience on a student design team, aerospace startup, robotics team, race team, or a fast-moving hardware project where customer feedback played a significant role.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nWithin your first month, you’ll understand the aircraft architecture, clean up critical CAD and build issues, and help prepare the next prototype for testing-with attention to how the design satisfies customer needs.\nWithin three months, you’ll have helped us build stronger, cleaner, more repeatable aircraft hardware and improved the speed at which we can design, build, test, and iterate user-focused designs.\nWe care more about agency, ownership, taste, and evidence that you can build than whether you match every bullet point. 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