{"id":2213376,"url":"https://alion.io/job/hive-robotics-mechanical-design-engineer-rugged-electronics-enclosures-mfd","title":"Mechanical Design Engineer, Rugged Electronics Enclosures (m/f/d)","company":{"id":695337,"name":"Hive Robotics","domain":"hive-robotics.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/hive-robotics","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Personio","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Munich, Germany"],"countries":["DE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":62000,"max_usd":100000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":23},"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"SolidWorks","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-07T13:44:58Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-07","last_verified_at":"2026-10-21T07:10:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":105,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":105},"description":"Role\nHive Robotics is building Europe's first full-stack orchestration platform for unmanned systems: connecting, controlling, and commanding multi-vendor drone and robot swarms. Our RF communication systems are Made in Germany, deployed on active frontlines, and targeting a highly valued tactical communication market with zero sovereign alternatives today.\nOur radios are small, dense and hot. Airborne units pack a complete radio into about 100 g of machined aluminum that must deliver full performance from arctic cold to desert heat. Our ground stations push high RF power through sealed housings that stand in the sun all day. Our product portfolio keeps growing, and every new product needs a housing that keeps the electronics cool, sealed and shielded, while staying lighter than the competition.\nWe are looking for an experienced Mechanical Design Engineer who takes those housings from concept to series production. You own your designs end to end and work daily with our RF architect, electronics designers and manufacturing team. You report into our CTO organization.\nThis role is hands-on by design: you work on-site in our Munich office, lab and workshop most of the week. Travel is limited to occasional supplier visits, tests and customer integrations.\nComing from automotive electronics? If you have designed housings for control units, power electronics, sensors, radar or lighting, you already know most of this job: sealed, thermally loaded, EMC-critical electronics enclosures that must survive vibration and weather. With us you'll apply it to products that go from CAD to the field in months, in a small team where your decisions count. No prior defense experience is needed.\nResponsibilities\nEnclosure & Thermal Design\nOwn the mechanical design of electronics housings from concept to series release: lightweight, EMI-shielded, conduction-cooled airborne units for drones, sealed outdoor ground stations, and RF modules and antenna assemblies\nDesign the heat path from day one together with the electronics engineers: from the hot components through thermal interface materials and heat spreaders into the housing and the host platform, and out of the housing by conduction, convection and radiation, with fins, surface finishes and mounting concepts that work without fans\nDesign for the field: IP65/IP67 sealing, pressure compensation and EMI shielding (gaskets, seams, conductive surface finishes), connector integration (Type N, SMA, circular power connectors), and shock, vibration and weight optimization for UAV payloads\nCo-design board outlines, keep-outs and component placement with the electronics team\nWrite integration guidelines for customers who build our modules into their own platforms, covering mounting, heat transfer and interfaces\nPrototype to Production\nBuild prototypes fast with 3D printing, CNC and our in-house prototyping facilities, measure them, and iterate\nRelease production-ready documentation: drawings with GD&T and tolerance analysis, eBOMs and assembly instructions\nHand designs over to our EMS partners and machining suppliers\nDrive DFM/DFA with suppliers for CNC parts, sheet metal, surface treatments (anodizing, conversion coatings) and gaskets\nDesign assembly and test fixtures, and support first production builds\nMaintain released designs through engineering change management as products evolve\nPlan and run environmental and thermal tests (temperature, climate, vibration, ingress), and support CE (RED) and EMC testing\nCollaboration & Integration\nWork with RF, electronics, firmware and manufacturing engineers, and turn field feedback from our Field Application Engineers into design improvements\nIntegrate our products into customer platforms: drones, UGVs and maritime systems\nSupport mechanical work across the wider Hive portfolio (autopilot, GNSS, antennas) when needed\nDocument designs, measurements and test results clearly\nRequirements\nYou do not need to tick every box from day one. If the core is there and you have the drive to grow into the rest, we want to hear from you.Must Have\nDegree in mechanical engineering, mechatronics, aerospace or a similar field\n3+ years designing housings or enclosures for electronics, in any industry (automotive, industrial, telecom, aerospace, defense), with at least one product taken into series production\nA practical understanding of thermal design: you can explain how heat leaves a sealed box and which design levers you would pull to get a hot component cooler, and you back your choices with simple hand estimates and verify them with measurements\nProven experience with sealing, EMC-aware and vibration-robust design of electronics housings\nDesign for manufacturing of metal parts: CNC machining, die casting or sheet metal, including aluminum surface treatments\nProduction drawings with GD&T (ISO GPS) and tolerance stack-ups\nVery good 3D CAD skills: we work in Fusion and SolidWorks, and if you come from CATIA, NX or Creo, we expect you to switch quickly\nHands-on attitude: you build, measure and fix prototypes yourself and are comfortable in the lab and workshop\nStructured, independent way of working and clear communication\nFluent English; 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