Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Location: Experience: 3–10 years in Mechanical New Product Development
Note: Experience in service-based industries will not be considered.

Astr Defence is looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to lead our mechanical design function and drive the development of next-generation defence hardware.
This is a leadership role for someone who can combine strong hands-on engineering with team leadership, process building, and product ownership. You will lead mechanical design engineers, drive development from concept to field trials, and establish the structure and discipline needed to build rugged, reliable, field-ready systems in a fast-moving defence environment.
This role is for someone who wants to do more than create CAD models and drawings. Lead end-to-end mechanical design and development of new defence products, from concept sketches to certified field hardware
Supervise and mentor Mechanical Design Engineers and freshers, helping them grow into robust independent contributors
Establish and strengthen structured mechanical design practices including DFMEA, tolerance stack-ups, BOM management, revision control, and release systems
Oversee mechanical builds, testing, debugging, and iteration for rugged, field-ready systems
Conduct structured design reviews and quality gates to ensure manufacturability, ruggedness, reliability, and serviceability
Drive simulation and engineering analysis using tools such as FEA, vibration, fatigue, and structural analysis
Work closely with electronics, embedded, manufacturing, testing,



and quality teams to deliver integrated products
3–10 years of hands-on experience in mechanical new product development

- Experience in defence, aerospace, automotive, robotics, industrial equipment, or hardware startups is strongly preferred
- Experience in service-based industries will not be considered
- Strong command of CAD tools such as SolidWorks and/or Fusion 360
- Strong command of engineering analysis tools such as ANSYS and MATLAB
- Solid experience with manufacturing processes such as CNC machining.
- Experience leading prototype-to-production transitions in complex mechanical systems
- Ability to conduct root-cause analysis and solve practical engineering problems under time pressure
- Evidence of what you have personally designed, built, tested, and shipped
- A builder's mindset: you should care about product performance in the field, not just design completion on paper

Here, you will be expected to design, build, test, break, fix, and repeat — fast .
But if you want to solve real engineering problems that matter to national security, and you want your work to exist in the field rather than in presentations, you'll feel at home here.

Lead real product development and shape how mechanical engineering is done in the company
Experience the full cycle: design → prototype → test → deployment
Freedom to experiment, fail, learn, and ship
The satisfaction of building hardware that actually works in the field

Astr Defence is a new-age Indian defence technology company building next-generation systems for the modern battlefield.
We are building India's defence future.

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