Lead Mechanical Engineer

Lyntris is a defense technology company that connects sensing to action across the connected battlespace. Lyntris brings together the talents of Accelint and Vitesse teams under one mission, with each contributing deep expertise within their domain. Combining differentiated hardware, software and mission expertise, Lyntris helps customers sense threats, make sense of complex conditions and act with greater speed, precision and confidence in contested environments.

• →Serve as a mechanical engineering subject matter expert responsible for guiding technical approaches, assessing design maturity, and ensuring mechanical solutions align with system-level performance, environmental, producibility, and mission requirements.
• →Develop, review, and mature mechanical architectures, subsystem designs, packaging concepts, interface definitions, and integration approaches aligned to system and mission requirements.
• →Recommend and articulate hardware and system design approaches using current and next-generation components, materials, manufacturing methods, and technologies.
• →Support structural, thermal, environmental, producibility, maintainability, survivability, and design-for-manufacturing trade studies across complex hardware and integrated system efforts.

• Provide technical oversight of subcontractor and supplier mechanical engineering activities, including design concepts, analyses, CAD models, drawings, interface control documents, test plans, and delivered hardware.
• Review subcontractor technical data packages, drawings, analyses, manufacturing plans, inspection data, and design artifacts to ensure quality, completeness, traceability, and compliance with program requirements.
• Coordinate technical interchange meetings, design reviews, action-item closure, discrepancy resolution, and engineering change activities with external development partners and internal stakeholders.
• Identify technical risks, integration issues, producibility concerns, and requirement gaps early, then drive mitigation plans and corrective actions across internal and external teams.
• Maintain technical alignment between customer requirements, system architecture, subcontractor execution, supplier deliverables, and Lyntris integration and production-readiness objectives.

• Support integration, checkout, troubleshooting, and demonstration activities for radar sensors, unmanned systems, payloads, weapons-related systems, and associated mechanical subsystems.
• Develop and review CAD models, engineering drawings, interface control documentation, assembly documentation, verification artifacts, and production-support materials.
• Support root cause analysis, discrepancy resolution, engineering change activities, nonconformance evaluation, and corrective actions in dynamic development, integration, and operational environments.
• Contribute to verification planning, test procedures, environmental qualification approaches, design reviews, field demonstrations, and transition of prototype systems into repeatable production configurations.
• Coordinate with suppliers, fabrication teams, machine shops, manufacturing partners, and integration teams to improve producibility, assembly efficiency, configuration control, technical quality, and delivery readiness.

• Assist with bid and proposal activities by providing engineering cost estimates, technical writing, technical evaluations, engineering approaches, subcontractor technical inputs, and detailed solution concepts.
• Write technical papers, white papers, status reports, review packages, application notes, and other technical products that support Lyntris strategic and tactical objectives.
• Deliver effective internal and external briefings, technical recommendations, design-review findings, and risk assessments to engineering, leadership, customer, and partner audiences.
• Engage with customers, subcontractors, suppliers, partners, and stakeholders to understand technical needs, convey engineering competency, and help shape executable hardware development solutions.
• Performs other duties as assigned. 

This will be an on-site or hybrid position reporting to the main office in Mullica Hill, NJ, with on-site work preferred. Travel will be required to customer locations, manufacturing facilities, subcontractor and supplier sites, integration sites, and test ranges according to business and program needs.

Lyntris is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Pay Scales & Benefits 

The listed pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this position for the location for which it has been posted and is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Other compensation considerations may include, but are not limited to, job responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, or other applicable factors. 

Benefits include… 

Paid Time Off 

Paid Company Holidays 

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance 

Optional HSA and FSA 

Base and Voluntary Life Insurance 

Short Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance 

401k Matching 

Employee Assistance Program 

The pay range for this role is:

141,426 - 172,000 USD per year (Mullica Hill, NJ)