Principal Mechanical Engineer
Looking to take your Mechanical Engineering career to the next level?
We are looking for *multiple* talented full-time Mechanical Engineers to fulfill Principal Mechanical Engineer roles for our client, who is a worldwide leader in the development of surgical and operating room equipment.
Location: Union City, CA (East Bay) and are in-office positions.
What You’ll be doing:
The Principal Mechanical Engineer guides and mentors the engineering team. They are responsible for designing operating room equipment, including patient support structures, actuators, and other various components.
What You’ll Earn:
$180-190K + Bonuses and Benefits
Your skillset:
- Designing metal, plastic, and carbon composite patient support structures for use in operating rooms meeting requirements for stiffness, strength, stability, reliability and cost.
- Design user actuated mechanisms and electro-mechanical drive trains to articulate these structures to optimize patient positioning, surgical access, and applied traction.
- Work with a diverse group of motivated individuals within the mechanical engineering team as well as peers in other R&D, manufacturing, clinical, marketing, and service teams.
Responsibilities:
- Work independently or within cross functional development teams to design, develop, and test products that meet system specifications.
- Participate with New Product Introduction (NPI) to assure product designs are optimized for manufacturing.
- Evaluate field input from Service and Marketing regarding product performance.
- Maintain a continuing liaison relationship with Manufacturing and Marketing functions to meet and improve product needs.
- Continually contribute to product improvement and cost reduction.
- Participate in vendor selection, sustaining engineering, QC inspection, and material review board activities.
- Assist other engineers and designers with technical input and lead projects as necessary.
- Clear verbal and written communication skills.
- Understand applicable external regulations (21 Code of Federal Regulations Part 820 Quality System Regulations and applicable International Standards).
What You’ll Need to be Considered:
- Experience and education – as outlined below, per job level.
- Fluency with CAD software, preferably Solidworks. Ability to apply engineering principles to define and solve problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to create and innovate solutions for design of mechanical parts and assemblies.
- Familiarity with electromechanical design including motor selection, couplings, bearings, gearbox design, drivetrain integration, sensor integration, and electronics packaging.
- Familiarity with structure design via hand calculations and using software.
- Familiarity with mechanism design including cams, linkages, actuators, mechanical attachments, and jigs and fixtures
- Familiarity with design of adjustment devices and touch points.