Senior​/Mechanical Engineer, Factory Automation

About the Company

Our client is a rapidly growing advanced manufacturing company developing a new approach to how complex products are engineered, manufactured, and assembled. Their technology combines sophisticated mechanical engineering, automation, software, and digital manufacturing to enable highly flexible production across demanding industries including automotive, aerospace, and defense.

The company is building production systems designed to reduce the traditional dependence on fixed tooling and allow factories to rapidly adapt between different products and configurations. The environment is highly technical, hands‑on, and fast-moving, with engineers given significant ownership over both the design and deployment of new manufacturing technology.

They are looking for a Senior/Staff Mechanical Engineer to take significant ownership of the mechanical design and deployment of factory automation systems.

This is a hands‑on mechanical engineering role focused on building complex automation equipment from concept through deployment
. You will work from ambiguous manufacturing and operational problems, determine the appropriate mechanical architecture, develop detailed designs, build and test prototypes, resolve integration issues, and ultimately help bring production equipment into operation.

The scope goes well beyond CAD and component design. You will be responsible for making system‑level engineering decisions and balancing performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, schedule, serviceability, and technical risk. You'll work closely with mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, suppliers, and operations teams to turn new automation concepts into functioning production hardware.

The ideal candidate has independently taken complex mechanical systems from concept → architecture → detailed design → build → test → release → deployment
, and is comfortable taking technical ownership when requirements are incomplete or evolving.

• Lead the mechanical development of significant factory automation systems, from defining the initial problem and developing concepts through detailed design, integration, validation, release, and production deployment.
• Translate manufacturing and operational requirements into practical mechanical architectures, system requirements, interfaces, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop detailed mechanical designs using 3D CAD, engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerance analysis, engineering calculations, component selection, and bills of material.
• Design across a broad range of mechanical systems, including structures, mechanisms, precision motion systems, fluid systems, thermal systems, sealing, vacuum systems, enclosures, and machine integration.
• Make system‑level engineering tradeoffs involving performance, reliability, safety, manufacturability, serviceability, cost, schedule, and technical risk.
• Build prototypes and work directly with technicians, manufacturing, and other engineers to integrate, test, troubleshoot, and iterate on mechanical equipment.
• Identify mechanical and integration risks early, determine the appropriate analysis or testing required, and drive issues through resolution rather than handing them off.
• Own complex technical problems within your systems and turn test results, failures, and lessons learned into durable design improvements.
• Work cross‑functionally with electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, suppliers, and contract manufacturers to ensure mechanical systems are ready for production.
• Drive hardware through engineering release, procurement, manufacturing, validation, commissioning, and operational ramp, closing technical gaps along the way.
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