Senior Maintenance Engineer
On-sitePalo Alto, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead development of aircraft maintenance programs, scheduled inspections, and continued airworthiness processes while authoring and maintaining Aircraft Maintenance Manuals, component manuals, and technical documentation. Partner with Design Engineering to ensure systems meet maintainability requirements and develop troubleshooting procedures to support field technicians. Perform root cause analysis on propulsion, battery, avionics, and structural failures to drive corrective actions and repair campaigns. Manage maintenance work packages within Epicor ERP/MRP, coordinate material requirements, and support fleet-wide investigations affecting aircraft availability. Serve as the primary interface between Engineering, MRO, and Operations teams to facilitate certification, audits, and regulatory activities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aviation Maintenance, or related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of aerospace, aviation, military, maintenance engineering, reliability engineering, aircraft sustainment, or related experience.
- Strong understanding of scheduled and unscheduled aircraft maintenance practices.
- Experience developing maintenance programs, technical publications, instructions for continued airworthiness, or maintenance procedures.
- Experience troubleshooting complex electromechanical, avionics, propulsion, or aircraft systems.
- Experience reviewing engineering drawings, schematics, wiring diagrams, and technical documentation.
- Strong technical writing and documentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Applicants must be eligible for employment in the United States.
- Willing to work onsite at our HQ office in Palo Alto, CA.
Desired Qualifications
- FAA Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) Certificate.
- Experience supporting eVTOL, electric aircraft, UAV, rotorcraft, military, or OEM aircraft programs.
- Experience developing AMM, CMM, IPC, RSM, ICA, or maintenance training documentation.
- Experience supporting fleet entry-into-service activities and customer operations.
- Familiarity with MSG-3, Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), and maintenance program development methodologies.
- Experience with Epicor ERP/MRP or similar enterprise resource planning systems.
- Experience creating maintenance jobs, routings, material plans, RMAs, and service-related transactions within an ERP environment.
- Knowledge of FAA Part 23, Part 91, Part 135, Part 145, and continued airworthiness requirements.
- Experience supporting technical publications, service bulletin development, and engineering change implementation.
- Familiarity with lithium-ion battery systems, electric propulsion systems, avionics, and aircraft networking architectures.
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