Mechanical Design Engineer

At REGENT, we’re on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water’s surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before.

Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we’re now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen.

As a Mechanical Design Engineer at REGENT, you'll design, refine, and mature the mechanical systems that make our Seagliders work — spanning structures, mechanisms, actuation, fluid handling, and vehicle-level integration. This is a hands-on design role on our Hardware Engineering team, and it exists because we're scaling from a prototype environment toward full-rate production and need dedicated design capacity to improve, troubleshoot, and harden the wide variety of mechanical systems across our platforms.

You'll own mechanical design work across Squire, Paladin, and Viceroy — taking subsystems and mechanisms from concept through CAD, analysis, prototype, and test. You'll size fasteners and joints, run the hand calculations and analyses that justify a design, build and test prototypes in the lab, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with our electrical, software, and program management teams to close integration challenges. Over time, you'll become a technical focal point for one or more areas of ownership.

Success in this role looks like becoming a trusted, go-to contributor: independently progressing designs, identifying real issues rather than just executing tasks, and helping mature key REGENT technologies like hydrofoil retraction and control surface actuation toward production. Within a year, you'll be shaping mechanical system architectures and making sound engineering decisions with limited oversight.

If you're energized by owning real mechanical hardware end-to-end — designing it, analyzing it, building it, and watching it fly — and you want to do that work at the intersection of cutting-edge innovation and real-world impact, we'd love to have you on the team.

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