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Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

2 months ago


Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States Aperia Technologies Full time
About the Role

Aperia Technologies, a pioneering company in the automotive industry, is seeking a highly skilled Principal Mechanical Design Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our hardware development team, you will play a crucial role in designing and optimizing next-generation products.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and Development: Architect, design, and optimize next-generation products by performing concept generation, analysis, CAD, prototyping, DFM, DFA, and user studies as needed.
  • Leadership and Mentorship: Regularly lead design projects by mentoring and guiding less experienced engineers.
  • Documentation and Knowledge Management: Continuously uphold good documentation practices, including keeping comprehensive design journals and test reports to ensure consistency, standardization, and knowledge preservation.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Lead the formulation of early concepts and garner feedback from stakeholders and customers to devise product requirements, ensuring optimal designs.
  • Test Planning and Execution: Develop test plans, required testing fixtures, and test flows as needed, ensuring comprehensive testing, standardization of testing procedures, and improving accuracy and reliability.
  • Supplier Management: Direct suppliers and vendors to get designs production-ready by providing detailed specs, defining quality standards and requirements, building prototypes, and using feedback loops, manufacturability analysis, and process capabilities when required.
Requirements
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a related engineering discipline.
  • Experience: Minimum of 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
  • Leadership and Teamwork: Experience as a system architect and leading projects and guiding small teams of engineers and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Flexibility: Flexibility to travel if needed.
  • Technical Skills: Strong competency in the following:
    • Systems thinking and the ability to understand the driving variables within a system.
    • Mechanical design and analysis of dynamic electro-mechanical systems.
    • Mechanical aptitude, hands-on assembly, modification, and tweaking/tinkering.
    • Experience with injection moldings.
    • Electromechanical workings, sensor integration, motor control, data logging, and test automation.
    • LabVIEW, MATLAB, Excel, C++ (or similar microcontroller programming language).
    • Simulation tools within CAD programs (SolidWorks is a plus).
    • 3D CAD (SolidWorks or similar).
    • Teamwork, collaboration, and mentorship of teammates.
  • Familiarity: Familiarity in the following:
    • Test fixture design; fabrication; hands-on assembly, calibration, adjustment, and modification.
    • Reliability science concepts and application.
    • Accelerated test methods and application: vibration, thermal.
    • Weibull statistical analysis.
    • Mechatronics, microcontrollers, motorized systems, robotics.
    • Data science, manipulating large datasets.
    • Fabrication via machining, welding, bolted assemblies, 3D printing, laser cutting.
    • Pneumatic systems.
What We Offer

A competitive salary, equity, bonuses, stipends, medical, dental, vision, 401-k, and long-term disability insurance.