Senior Mechanical Engineer

Senior Mechanical Engineer (Contract-to-Hire)

Location
:
Hybrid – Bay Area Preferred | Remote with Travel Required

Type
: 3‑6 Month Contract, Opportunity for Full‑Time

Start
: ASAP

Compensation
:
Competitive, with travel expectations factored in

What You’ll Do

• Lead mechanical development from concept through production
• Develop system architectures, mechanical strategies, and detailed part designs
• Collaborate with industrial design and EE teams to bring ideas to life
• Design for manufacturing: execute clean CAD (Solid Works), and DFM
• Own client communications and vendor coordination where needed
• Travel is required for client and vendor visits—and if remote, you’ll be expected to travel to our Bay Area headquarters approximately 3–4 times per quarter
• Jump between projects and industries with agility and discipline

About You

• 5‑10 years of mechanical engineering experience in consumer, medtech, or related hardware
• Proficient in Solid Works—surfacing and solid modeling, top‑down, bottom‑up, and master modeling, clean part structure
• Strong grasp of plastic part design, injection molding, machining, and prototyping methods
• Fluent in 2D documentation, BOM creation, and DFM/DFA best practices, working knowledge of GD&T
• Comfortable with vendor engagement, prototyping, and client‑facing updates
• Highly accountable, low‑ego, and thrives in hybrid/remote environments
• Local to the Bay Area is a plus—but not required if you can meet the travel expectation

Overview

We are looking to grow our industrial design team with a contract position to permanent full‑time hire.

Duties / Responsibilities

• Work on a broad range of advanced and diversified design projects
• Bring projects from concept through development to market
• Develop and coordinate presentations in a professional manner detailing the scope of a directive
• Meet established deadlines
• Responsible for executing designs that achieve feasibility at a production and engineering level
• Collaboration across multidisciplinary teams internal and external (Design/ENG/Vendors)
• Create compelling designs based on Ideation, Research, and Product Requirements
• Providing design support to all levels of designers and engineers
• Developing and seeing through design from concept to final deliverables (manufacturing experience in production – injection molding, machining, sheet metal, cut and sew is a plus, but not a requirement)
• Delivering on time

Desired Skills / Experience

• 1‑3 Years of relevant experience or recent graduate with consultancy internship experience (consultancy experience preferred)
• Excellent at analog sketching, digital sketching, model making, and functional mock‑ups
• Excellent communication skills: written/verbal/presentation
• Working knowledge of 3D Modelling software (Solidworks, Rhino, Keyshot)
• Excellent at Illustrator and Photoshop
• Willingness to lead at times, but also take direction and learn from others
• Great positive attitude with an emphasis on self‑motivation, time‑management, and high quality of work
• Multilingual skills are welcome
• This job is remote/hybrid (we work primarily remotely)
• You must be authorized to work in the United States