Senior Mechanical Engineer

<div>Join the Wingtra team and become part of this venture-backed robotics scaleup with a global and international team of 125+ dedicated Wingtranauts who want to see their actions have a positive and lasting impact on the world. Founded more than 8 years ago at ETH Zurich, Europe’s leading robotics university, our goal is to build the best aerial robots to digitize the world at the push of a button and set the basis for faster and better decisions. Wingtra provides efficient and reliable data solutions to a variety of industries ranging from mining, construction and agriculture to humanitarian organizations, environmentalists and wildlife monitoring groups. </div><div><br></div><div>We are reaching for the stars and together we might just get there. Open communication, asking hard questions and valuing diverse viewpoints are but a few things that will help us achieve our goals. Above all we will never stop learning and striving to help each other reach our maximum potential.</div><div><br></div><div>Help us take Wingtra’s new product platforms from fast prototypes to reliable series production. Embedded in the engineering team, you own mechanical design, qualification and industrialization through initial ramp-up. Together we deliver a qualified product, a complete product file and a working production line. We are early adopters of AI and actively build agentic workflows across engineering, from design and test planning to execution and analysis.</div><br><strong>Responsibilities</strong><br><div> <li> <p>Take a new aircraft from concept to series production. You work in a small team with electronics designers and test engineers. You get direct feedback from prototypes, flight tests and production builds.</p> </li> <li> <p>Design and iterate lightweight parts. You design, build and test parts and assemblies, then improve them until they are ready for production.</p> </li> <li> <p>Choose materials and processes with care. You balance performance, volumes, unit cost, tooling investment and lead times.</p> </li> <li> <p>Own DFX. You design for manufacturing, assembly, quality, cost and serviceability, and you settle tolerances, interfaces and process constraints early.</p> </li> <li> <p>Work hand in hand with suppliers. You partner with sourcing on technical feasibility, tooling and part iterations.</p> </li> <li> <p>Own qualification. You qualify parts with the intended production materials and processes, and you agree product-specific acceptance criteria with the test engineers.</p> </li> <li> <p>Deliver the production-ready product file. CAD, 2D drawings, tolerances, BOMs, material and process specifications and acceptance criteria.</p> </li> <li> <p>Hand over a running line. Once the qualification gates have passed and ramp-up is complete, you hand the line and the product file to Production and Production Engineering.</p> </li> </div><br><strong>Requirements</strong><br><div> <li> <p>You have several years of experience taking mechanical products through the full lifecycle: prototype, series production and quality monitoring at the customer. Ideally on structurally critical products at volumes of hundreds to a few thousand units.</p> </li> <li> <p>You are strong in CAD (Solidworks/PDM preferred), tolerance analysis and material selection.</p> </li> <li> <p>You have practical experience with injection molding as well as additive manufacturing for functional plastic parts.</p> </li> <li> <p>You prototype fast and pragmatically, then qualify and document with discipline.</p> </li> <li> <p>You