Senior Mechanical Engineer, Consumer Electronics; LA)

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Product Design

Location: Los Angeles, CA, South Bay area (on site, five days a week) Reports To: Director of Product Development and Engineering Type: Full Time

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer who can take ownership of complex consumer electronics products from a rough idea to reliable mass production.

This is not a role for someone who wants to receive a finished specification and execute it.

You will help determine the mechanical architecture, identify the highest technical risks, make difficult engineering tradeoffs, drive prototypes and validation, work directly with suppliers and tooling partners, and remain accountable for the product through production.

You should be comfortable walking into an ambiguous problem and creating structure around it.

Teams here are small and the path to key decision makers is short. Strong technical judgment matters. If you can demonstrate through prototypes, testing, analysis, and engineering fundamentals that there is a better way to build something, you will have both the ability and the responsibility to influence what gets built.

We expect senior engineers to see those details early, understand which ones matter, and drive them to resolution.

What You Will Own

• Own the mechanical development of complex consumer electronics products from concept through mass production and post launch improvement.
• Define product mechanical architecture and establish the fundamental mechanisms, structures, materials, interfaces, and manufacturing strategy.
• Translate Industrial Design concepts into technically robust products without unnecessarily compromising design intent.
• Make engineering tradeoffs across performance, reliability, user experience, manufacturing, cost, schedule, and aesthetics.
• Lead mechanical integration of PCBAs, sensors, motors, batteries, wiring, antennas, displays, and other electromechanical systems.
• Develop and review production CAD, drawings, GD&T, tolerance stacks, specifications, and critical to quality requirements.
• Identify major technical risks early and create focused prototype and validation plans to retire them.
• Drive structured engineering analysis including tolerance analysis, DOE, DFMEA, reliability testing, accelerated life testing, and failure analysis.
• Build and test prototypes to quickly convert assumptions into evidence.
• Lead root cause investigations for difficult mechanical, manufacturing, reliability, and field failures.
• Drive DFM/DFA directly with component suppliers, tooling vendors, and final assembly manufacturers.
• Own mechanical readiness through tooling kickoff, T0/T1 iterations, engineering builds, pilot production, validation, and mass production ramp.
• Resolve issues directly with domestic and overseas vendors rather than relying solely on intermediaries.
• Drive continuous improvement in product performance, reliability, assembly, manufacturability, and cost after launch.
• Raise the engineering standard of the team through rigorous analysis, clear communication, and disciplined decision making.
• Travel internationally to suppliers and manufacturing partners as required by product development and launch schedules.

What We Are Looking For

How You Work

• Passionate and relentless about detail. You notice things other people overlook. A tolerance that does not make sense, a slight change in mechanism feel, an inconsistent gap, an unexplained test result, or a manufacturing assumption without evidence bothers you enough to investigate it. You understand that excellent consumer products are often separated from average ones by hundreds of small engineering decisions.
  
  "Good enough" is not automatically good enough.
• Curious, self directed, and current. You find your own answers, propose…