Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Overview:
As a senior mechanical engineer at our client, you will apply your engineering expertise and technical leadership skills to design complex automated machinery involved in the manufacturing of novel pharmaceutical products.
Their team-oriented work environment provides in-house access to a wide range of state-of-the-art prototyping and fabrication equipment, extensive engineering material and component inventory to experiment and build with, personalized CAD workstation, and multiple workspaces that foster creativity and collaboration.
This position may also involve the selection and integration of electromechanical actuators, controls, sensors, and microcontrollers.
Basic Technical Requirements:
- Proficiency with 3D CAD software, including modeling and creation of detailed drawings.
- Extensive mechanical design experience developing production ready machine designs from basic ideas and concepts, including starting from a ‘blank sheet’.
- Proven ability to solve complex technical problems by breaking them down into simpler pieces and executable tasks.
- Working knowledge of mechanical components, common engineering metals, plastics, joining methods, part fabrication methods, and finishing operations.
- Ability to safely and effectively use hand tools, power tools, rapid prototyping equipment, basic machine shop fabrication equipment, and precision measurement tools.
Basic Workplace Skill Requirements:
- Candidates must be a self-starter comfortable working in a fast paced technically challenging startup company environment.
- Candidates must be very organized, and detail oriented.
- Candidates must be able to handle multiple project and task assignments simultaneously.
- Candidates must be able to clearly express their ideas and design details in meetings, team presentations, white board brainstorming sessions, and in various technical documentation.
- Candidates must be able, when necessary, to provide effective leadership of engineering peers and more junior engineers while working together on major projects.
Additional Qualifications – Considered a plus:
- Experience designing and building automated production machinery for an FDA regulated industry.
- Industrial experience developing robot EOATs, work cell fixtures, or material handling systems.
- Demonstratable proficiency operating machine shop equipment to fabricate high precision parts.
- Working knowledge of ASME Y14.5-2009 GD&T standard.
- Experience designing injection molded parts, qualifying mold tooling, and selecting plastic resins.
- Experience designing machine power distribution and control cabinets.