About Us
Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.
About Dash 2 Dynamics (D2)
D2 is building a new class of advanced communications systems powered by the integration of plasma physics, radio-frequency engineering, and novel antenna architectures. Our work is aimed at overcoming fundamental limits in conventional antennas and enabling communications capabilities that are smaller, more wideband, and more resilient in demanding environments. We are taking breakthrough technology from the laboratory through rapid prototyping, rigorous modeling and test, product qualification, and operational deployment.
This is an opportunity to join a hands-on, multidisciplinary team working at the edge of electromagnetics, materials, electronics, plasma science, and mission-focused product development. The systems we are developing will reshape how defense, aerospace, and commercial users communicate across contested and congested RF environments.
About the Role
Dash 2 Dynamics (D2) is seeking a practical, inventive Staff Mechanical Engineer to serve as the senior mechanical technical owner for plasma-enabled antenna and advanced communications hardware. You will shape mechanical architecture, lead critical design trades, and drive antenna assemblies, plasma devices, electronics housings, fixtures for installation and platform integration, thermal interfaces, and test hardware from early concepts through qualification-ready designs, while raising engineering rigor across the team.
What You Will Do
Mechanical Architecture & Technical Leadership
Own the mechanical architecture for advanced antenna, plasma-device, electronics, and communications-system hardware.
Lead mechanical design reviews, establish analysis and documentation standards, and guide critical decisions involving performance, risk, cost, schedule, and manufacturability.
Define modular product architectures that can evolve from laboratory prototypes to fieldable systems and future product variants.
Mentor engineers and provide trusted technical guidance across multidisciplinary programs.
Detailed Design, Thermal & Structural Engineering
Create and maintain CAD models, production drawings, GD&T schemes, tolerance analyses, bills of material, and configuration-controlled design documentation.
Perform or direct thermal and structural analyses for electronics, antenna assemblies, plasma devices, and environmental loads.
Select materials and joining methods for high voltage, RF exposure, thermal cycling, vacuum or controlled environments, and rugged use.
Engineer interfaces involving ceramics, metals, seals, brazed or bonded joints, precision alignment, thermal expansion, shock, vibration, and fatigue.
Prototype, Test & Qualification
Drive rapid hardware iteration from concept through prototype, integration, environmental test, qualification, and design release.
Design fixtures and test articles; support instrumentation, assembly, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.
Define test procedures and acceptance criteria that retire the highest mechanical risks and produce defensible design evidence.
Correlate thermal and structural predictions with measured hardware behavior and incorporate learning into subsequent designs.
Manufacturing & Supplier Execution
Apply DFM and DFA principles while preserving RF, plasma, thermal, structural, and serviceability requirements.
Lead technical engagement with machine shops, specialty joining and brazing vendors, additive manufacturers, and contract manufacturing partners.
Review quotes, supplier capabilities, first articles, inspection results, nonconformances, and…