Senior Technical Team Lead, Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Guide a team of mechanical engineers to design, develop, and continuously improve high-performance robotic actuator products.
• Product Strategy: Participate in developing overall robot product strategy and actuator product roadmaps.
• Execution: Create and manage plans to complete the necessary work to accomplish the team’s objectives.
• System-Level Design: Drive and backstop system-level design decisions across motors, sensors, mechanical packaging, thermal management, data and power transfer, and manufacturability.
• Innovation: Evaluate, derisk, and introduce new technologies to improve performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborative Design (DFx): Lead technical trade studies and guide key architectural decisions in collaboration with systems, software, controls, manufacturing, and sourcing teams.
• Risk Stewardship: Manage technical risk mitigation through design reviews, FMEAs, and validation planning.
• Mentorship & Development: Support and mentor engineers through design reviews, standards development, and architectural best practices, while fostering an inclusive team environment.

Job requirements

• A track record of leveraging a team to deliver impact.
• Experience building consensus and aligning decision-making across disciplines and levels through collaboration and clear communication.
• High proficiency in 3D CAD (CATIA preferred or equivalent) and deep experience architecting complex electromechanical products, with an emphasis on motors, speed reducers, electronics packaging, and thermal management.
• Strong understanding of actuator design challenges, including thermal management, input and output load management, sensor integration, gears, and bearings.
• Ability to lead architectural trade studies, resolve ambiguous design challenges, and balance innovation with practical manufacturing constraints.
• Experience working across disciplines and influencing technical direction without direct authority.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Professional experience in electromechanical hardware product development, including meaningful ownership of complex product launches (typically 8+ years).