{"id":2595308,"url":"https://alion.io/job/orb-senior-aero-mechanical-engineer-advanced-systems-engineering-integration-and-design-optimization","title":"Senior Aero-Mechanical Engineer - Advanced Systems Engineering Integration and Design Optimization","company":{"id":4385204,"name":"Orb Aerospace","domain":"orb.aero","url":"https://alion.io/company/orb-6","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":7,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Lowell, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":130000,"max":175000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":175000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CATIA","optional":true},{"name":"Siemens NX","optional":true},{"name":"SolidWorks","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-01-03T20:16:27Z","employer_posted_date":"2025-01-03","last_verified_at":"2026-10-25T06:13:01Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":659,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":659},"description":"US Citizen or Permanent Resident\nIn-Person\nFall 2026 Start\n5+ Years’ Experience Req. Successful Program Experience\nJoin 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.\nYour 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.\nIf 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nAircraft Design, Configuration, Analysis, and Trade Studies \nEngineering First Principals Driven Multi-Disciplinary Systems Engineering from RF to Propulsion and Structures \nSpool up Aircraft Design Tools Like CFD, \nIncorporate Multi-Disciplinary Optimization and Establish Design Tools / Processes \nIncorporate With Every Discipline from Conceptual Design to Flight Test \nDesired Skills and Qualifications\nDemonstrated Experience in Wholistic Aircraft Design, Aero, Mechanical, and Systems Integration. \nDemonstrated Success inBuilding Unconventional Air Platforms \nLong Term Commitment to Orbs Mission \nExpert in CAD E.G. Siemens NX, Solid Works, Catia or Similar \nExpert in Simulation of Loads and Aerodynamic Forces \nExperienced in Conceptual Design Tools and Multi-Disciplinary Optimization","description_format":"text","description_chars":2312,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Industrial Engineering"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T07:03:45Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.228,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":659,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:3","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":175000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/orb-senior-aero-mechanical-engineer-advanced-systems-engineering-integration-and-design-optimization","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/orb-senior-aero-mechanical-engineer-advanced-systems-engineering-integration-and-design-optimization.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-25T07:43:04Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":10833,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4385204},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4385204"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Forb-senior-aero-mechanical-engineer-advanced-systems-engineering-integration-and-design-optimization"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Forb-senior-aero-mechanical-engineer-advanced-systems-engineering-integration-and-design-optimization"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Forb-senior-aero-mechanical-engineer-advanced-systems-engineering-integration-and-design-optimization"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/orb-senior-aero-mechanical-engineer-advanced-systems-engineering-integration-and-design-optimization\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Forb-senior-aero-mechanical-engineer-advanced-systems-engineering-integration-and-design-optimization"}]}