Mechanical & Scaling Engineer, Droid

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Take droid subsystems from the design phase through DVT, PVT, tooling release, first-article, and full-rate production, owning the execution end-to-end.
• Own test campaigns for the subsystems you drive. That will involve writing test plans, coordinating fixtures, running the campaigns, and driving root-cause when things fail.
• Stand up NPI and production lines at our contract manufacturers. So - process definition, work instructions, operator training, line balancing, yield ramp, and the first weeks of full-rate production.
• Be the point person for supplier communication, ECOs, deviation management, and the Jira / issue-tracking hygiene that keeps a hardware program from drowning in itself.
• Modify and improve existing designs where testing, DFM, or production reveals opportunities. You don't need to do ground-up mechanism design, but you do need to be fluent enough in CAD (we use Siemens NX) to make…
• Partner directly with the design engineers, test engineers, and the TPM on our team, and with cross-functional partners in supply chain, quality, and manufacturing engineering.
• Drive first-article builds and pilot runs, being physically present on the line, catching problems the drawings didn't anticipate, and closing the loop with the design team.
• Travel to suppliers and manufacturing partners in China, Malaysia, Japan, Italy, Germany, and Vietnam.