Senior Mechanical Engineer

The Senior Mechanical Engineer position is responsible for the design, development, validation, and maintenance of the company’s technology, processes, and workflows within the mechanical and electromechanical domains. You will work across a broad technological scope, from mechanical design and build of products, fixtures, and test rigs, to data collection and analysis. Focus area for data analysis include stress, fluids, and heat transfer. You will support lifecycle workflows from concept design through validation and transition to manufacturing by contract manufacturers. This involves cross-functional collaboration with internal and external stakeholders across other disciplines, including electrical, software, firmware, manufacturing, quality, and business development. This position is on-site from day one, convenient to I-26 and I-526, in a well-appointed office flex space with lab.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, prototyping, testing, and integrating mechanical/electromechanical designs from component level to system level.

• Maintaining mechanical designs and drawings

• Designing experiments and tests to validate concepts.

• Designing and building test rigs, including LABVIEW test programs and scripts.

• Selection of manufacturing process for fabricated parts, including metal, plastics, composites.

• Designing and developing manufacturing processes for fabricating, building, assembling, and installing components.

• Communicating engineering project status Evaluating the final product’s overall performance, reliability, and safety

• Maintaining compliance with applicable government regulations

• BS degree in Mechanical or Materials Engineering and 10+ years’ experience.

• Experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

• Proficiency with SolidWorks solid modeling and drawings.  

• Proficiency with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, drawings, and various international standards including ANSI, JIS, ISO.

• Experience with analysis, including:

  • heat transfer,

  • thermodynamics,

  • fluid mechanics, and

  • stress analysis.

• Experience with analytic tools, including FEA and CFD.

• Experience with a variety of fabrication processes for both prototyping and series production, including:

  • additive manufacturing,

  • injection molding,

  • machining (mill/lathe/grind),

  • laser/waterjet,

  • welding, and

  • composites.

• Excellent organizational skills, drive, determination, grit, a positive attitude with an open mind to continuously learn and thrive with a highly varied workload, and the focus to meet objectives.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.