Mechanical Design Engineer

About the Role

As a Mechanical Design Engineer, you will lead the end-to-end design and development of complex electromechanical hardware and robotic systems. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will rapidly build, test, and iterate on prototypes using 3D printing, CNC machining, and hands-on fabrication. You’ll leverage your deep mechanical intuition to perform core structural, thermal, and tolerance analyses while ensuring designs scale seamlessly through rigorous DFM/DFA practices.

Collaborating closely with cross-functional software and electrical teams, machine shops, and contract manufacturers, you will turn ambiguous technical challenges into reliable, high-volume production hardware.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of mechanical components and assemblies for data collection hardware and robotic devices.
• Rapidly build, test, and break prototypes. You’ll use 3D printing, CNC machining, and manual fabrication to validate designs.
• Contribute to DFM/DFA efforts to ensure designs can scale from low-volume prototypes to high-volume production.
• Source components and work closely with machine shops and CMs to ensure parts are manufactured and shipped to spec and on time.
• Perform basic analyses (tolerance, structural, thermal) to validate design decisions
• Develop specifications and accelerated test plans to validate the product for its lifetime
• Assist in documentation for design reviews and testing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (electrical, software, industrial design) to consolidate design requirements and integrate mechanical systems.

Qualifications

• Exceptional Mechanical Intuition. You understand how forces, materials, and mechanisms behave instinctively.
• 5+ years of experience (or equivalent "hard tech" projects) building complex electromechanical systems and sensors
• Familiarity with rapid prototyping techniques such as 3D Printing, Machining, etc.
• High proficiency in SolidWorks, Catia or similar tools
• Hands-on problem-solving approach with ability to iterate quickly
• Experience designing for volume processes (Injection molding, CNC, etc.) and working with contract manufacturers.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an "engineering curiosity" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.