PRINCIPAL MECHANICAL ENGINEER
(Mechanisms, Structures & Electrical-Mechanical Systems Design & Controls)
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

Competencies

• Responsibilities/Outcomes Focus: Targets and achieves results, sets challenging goals, prioritizes tasks, overcomes obstacles, accepts accountability, sets team standards and responsibilities, provides leadership/motivation.
• Creativity/Innovation: Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, takes risks, supports change, encourages innovation, solves problems creatively.
• Adaptability/Flexibility: Adapts to change, is open to new ideas, takes on new responsibilities, handles pressure, adjusts plans to meet changing needs.

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 background
• 8-10 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
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills to levels above, below and in-line

• 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

Wavemaker Labs is a product development and business incubator. We are a diverse team of innovators, builders and entrepreneurs, developing advanced technologies for practical use in robotics, automation and mobility... to name a few.
This is a full time position