Product Design Engineer/ Senior Mechanical Engineer
Skip
Dogpatch, San Francisco
ABOUT US:
Skip is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement.
Movement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health. Yet it is elusive for the 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability. We are building productsthat will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences. We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead.
Skip is a 10-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023. With deep cross-disciplinary expertise and key partnerships (e.g. with Arc’teryx) we are uniquely positioned to launch the first commercially successful wearable robotic device, the MO/GO, and transform millions of lives in the coming years.
More information about Skip and MO/GO can be found at www.skipwithjoy.com
THE ROLE:
We are seeking a highly motivated and adaptable individual who will explore the peaks and valleys of all problems that may come up while building a new generation of wearable robots for everyday life.
Our small team is exceptional at prototyping and invention, your job will be to help translate designs to being ready for scaling, manufacturing and sending to consumers. We are a flat team of 10 phenomenal and senior engineers, where everyone contributes directly to product development, as such this will start as an IC role.
Some of the specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Take prototype CAD and own design-for-manufacturing processes, and over time cost-reduction processes.
- Lead major subsystem design, including creating quality CAD, for up to a third of our products, from architecture, design, implementation, testing, through commercialization
- Drive engineering specifications from product requirements and work cross functionally
- Select materials and manufacturing processes that meet product performance and durability requirements.
- Lead cross-functional design reviews
- Develop specifications, requirements, test methods and protocols through formal verification to ensure functionality, safety and efficacy of design
- Write technical documentation and assembly instructions to ensure seamless knowledge transfer to manufacturing partners.
- Manage vendor relationships (including travel)
- Wearing prototypes several hours a week to participate in data collection, on-body testing and provide feedback
- Basic lab management, including helping coordinate part shipping, keeping space clean,
- Bring joy to the team, participate in embarrassing team events, tolerate KZ’s terrible music choices
Basic Qualifications
- 7+ years’ experience in mechanical engineering in a professional setting
- Extensive experience in DFM and a passion for making complex designs more practical and scalable. Ideally experience with a scaled consumer or medical product
- Expertise designing parts for a broad range of manufacturing processes, such as plastic injection molding, machining, carbon fiber composites, casting, etc.
- Excellence in CAD design and software
- Experience in mechanical analysis including modeling tolerance stacks, static and dynamic analysis, FEA and thermal analysis
- Able to deliver quality work in a fast-paced startup environment
- Ability to relocate to work at the Skip Bay Area office
- Sense of humour, tolerant of Aussie & Canadian spelling
Bonus Points
- Experience with robotics or mechatronics
- Experience with testing for powered consumer electronics (e.g. drones, robot vacuums)
- Experience in start-up environments
- Personal motivation to improve human movement
- Taylor Swift fan. Good taste in background music :)
This is a full time position working at the Skip office in the San Francisco Bay Area, starting in Jan 2025.
Skip is an equal opportunity employer. Our hiring decisions are based on need and competence to satisfy said need. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected status.
Any and all offers of employment extended by Skip are conditional on candidates’ ability to provide satisfactory proof of eligibility to maintain full-time employment in the United States. Unfortunately Skip cannot sponsor visas at this time.
To apply, send via email a CV and cover letter to people@skipwithjoy.com
