Mechanical Design Engineer (R&D Engineer)

Mechanical Design Engineer (R&D Engineer)

Position Summary, Responsibilities and Expectations:

- Provide mechanical design and own decision making to deliver our next generation of products to timely launch schedules, according to product- and marketing requirements
- Provide creative solutions for simple- to complex engineering and schedule items
- Collaborate extensively with electrical- and thermal engineers, product managers, designers, manufacturing and other internal- or external (suppliers) group to ensure successful development and launch of new products
- Maintain regular and consistent communication across teams and reporting of project status, risks, and change control as required
- Manage issue troubleshooting and resolution for the mechanical portion component programs
- Prioritize deliverables, tasks, and issues; manage change requests against scheduling and resource constraints
- Support DVT, OOBE, and Regulatory team efforts during the product development cycle
- Provide inputs for the mechanical portion of component program development budget and schedule
- Proactively assist with cost reduction programs
- Proactively assist in product testing and validation
- Create/Review EE CAD, BOM, DFM inputs as required
- Support exit meetings, core team meetings, escalation meetings etc.

Essential Skills and Experience:

- Proficiency in engineering analysis, development and documentation
- Direct experience in mechanical construction design, including sheet metal and polymer injection molding design
- Advanced 3D CAD skills (Solidworks or similar)
- Advanced assembly drawing skills
- Good knowledge of DFM
- Ability to analyse and interpret options for critical design elements and features and determine optimum selection
- Ability to validate designs, both novel and existing
- Ability to develop patentable ideas
- Excellent attention to detail in both design and change management
- Excellent prioritization, problem solving and decision making skills and ability to work with multiple parallel project
- Excellent communication and reporting skills
- Experience with injection molding design
- Good knowledge of thermodynamics and heat transfer
- Good knowledge of polymer material science

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering or relevant experience
- 3+ Years industry experience
- PDM/PLM knowledge is a plus
- Solidworks CSWA/CSWP certificate is a plus
- Solidworks Simulation (FEM) experience is a plus
- Phyton programming skills is a plus
- Material science experience is a plus
- Project management experience is a plus
- Being a PC/Gaming enthusiast is a plus