Principal Mechanical Engineer

As a Principal Mechanical Engineer at Wavemaker Labs, your breadth of experience and capability in electrical-mechanical systems design and controls will allow you to shine. You will work with our talented team to accelerate product development.
Values:

• Commit to desired outcomes …define desired outcomes and achieve them vigorously
• Challenge assumptions …to ensure great outcomes
• Prudent optimism …glass-half-full, with a dose of caution to challenge our assumptions
• No egos, no jerks …no joke

You Will:

• Research and key component selection including sensors, actuators, controllers and any other relevant components
• Implement workable structures and kinematics design architectures
• Prepare weight budgets and margin of safety analysis based on carefully defined use cases
• Mechanical packaging of components with an eye for efficiency and design elegance
• CAD design of mechanical systems guided by load and duty-cycle analysis, kinematics studies and manufacturability
• Prepare detailed drawings of parts and assemblies using GD&T ready for manufacturing
• Compile data, prepare trade studies and present information in written and verbal form
• Develop mechanical system budgets including estimating labor, material, and any other relevant costs
• Lead technical teams in the following:
• Ideation of electrical-mechanical systems architecture, mechanism, and structural mechanical systems
• Development of test plans and executing hardware integration, testing, debug, and validation
• Development of mechanical systems that meet use-case, technical, operational, manufacturing, cost and schedule requirements

You Have:

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering and/or other relevant educational backgrounds.
• 10+ years of experience successfully developing real robotic/automation systems
• Experience writing high-level controls and state-machine firmware
• Experience developing robotics/automation products for scale manufacturing as demonstrated by specific examples of products brought to market
• Experience with electronics and electrical system architecture as demonstrated by the ability to guide diverse teams during the bring-up and debug of electrical-mechanical systems
• In-depth robot/automation hardware design experience with both system-level thinking and component-level development
• Experience (physically) building and maintaining complex mechanical systems
• Keen ability to identify and foresee technical risk, and engineering mindset of addressing risks early