Senior Engineer, Mechanical

Job Description

Hatch IT is partnering with HSI to find a Senior Engineer, Mechanical

About The Role:
This role will focus on bringing technical substance and inspiration to their Mechanical Engineering team to help ensure that imaginative, yet credible, solutions populate our ambitious product roadmap. An ideal candidate for this role is a person who is driven and willing to take ownership of tasks, an expert in their area who is willing to mentor, work with and learn from others, always acts with integrity, and has a passion for industrial design.

About the Company:
Human Systems Integration, Inc. (HSI) of East Walpole, MA, is a leader in the development and production of high-tech wearable solutions. HSI is a fast-paced, dynamic product development and production environment where they care deeply about their customers, their partners and their employees. A successful candidate will be highly organized and a strong communicator who enjoys a challenge, and working in a team-centered environment that focuses on providing
their customers’ extremely impactful wearable technology that enables them to be safer, more capable and more informed.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Key member in research and development (R&D) activities for all electromechanical aspects of HSI’s Wearable Electronics systems and sub-systems roadmap.
• Work from design concepts and requirements to engineer innovative products that meet functionality, cost and schedule goals
• Electro-mechanical design, layout and modeling of electro-mechanical assemblies and electronics packaging (using SolidWorks)
• Develop and assemble non-functional and functional prototypes of small-scale mechanical and electromechanical assemblies
• Continuously improve the design process by ensuring best practices and tools are applied and evaluated
• Implement Design for Manufacturability (DFM) practices.
• Perform design and drawing checking and approval.
• Perform system-level tolerance analysis.
• Create detail designs and drawings for fabrication.
• Interface with manufacturing (in-house and out-of-house) to ramp up production of HSI products
• Solve thermal and mechanical design problems.
• Lead design reviews.

Requirements

Functional Skills/Knowledge:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong time management skills
• Strong proficiency in 3D modeling (SolidWorks)
• Candidate must be comfortable in conceptual as well as hands-on design, assembly and integration, including development and assembly of small-scale mechanical and electromechanical prototypes and small deliverable runs.
• Experience with rapid-prototyping techniques and tools
• Experience with the creation of engineering drawings, GD&T preferred
• Familiarity with both Defense and Medical Device industries is preferred but not required.
• Experience with fabric assemblies and/or softgoods design is a plus

Education and Experience:

• BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering with 5+ years of Mechanical Engineering experience, preferably in an emerging technology company.
• Experience in a Technology/R&D Environment with writing capabilities related to grants, proposals and other investigative efforts.
• Must be a permanent, legal US resident. US Citizenship preferred.