Senior Mechanical Engineer – Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead a mechanical engineering team designing products with multiple, powered DOFs.
• Design, build and test systems and critical components.
• Brainstorm, design, and compare potential product architectures against client metrics.
• Identify and perform critical engineering analyses and tests from concept evaluations to production verification.
• Assist client to define product specifications, schedules and resource planning.
• Manage project budget, schedule, and deliverables as the primary point of contact with clients. Coordinate work with other engineers across multiple offices.

• BSME required, MSME preferred.
• Minimum 8+ years of technical system-level design experience – from architectural definition to design to release to manufacturing.
• Project management experience leading a cross‑functional team.
• Mechatronics expertise: motors, bearings, gear trains, belt drives, and sensors.
• Experience with motion control hardware including steppers, servos, DC motors, and position sensors (encoders, limit switches, etc.).
• Experience with end‑effector design is a plus.
• Multiple projects designed, fabricated, and tested.
• Automation experience for industrial applications and manufacturing lines.
• Hands‑on system bring‑up and integration with a cross‑functional team.
• ME analysis experience in kinematics, structural, thermal, and tolerances.
• Materials and component selection expertise.
• Proficient in Solid Works CAD and FEA.
• Experience with life‑science instrument and/or medical device design is a plus.
• Client interface capability and experience.
• Hands‑on practical performance in shop/lab work.
• Design for manufacturability (high/low volume).
• Project and technical reporting.
• Understanding of ISO 13485 (a plus).