Job Description:

• Sr Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and test custom metrology equipment and low volume manufacturing, alignment, and optical assembly equipment
• Design and ownership of electro-mechanical and electro-optical mechanisms including assembly and system testing and tuning
• Explore and develop novel processing methods
• Develop and present concept design reviews and status updates to research teams
• Polymer materials and flexible membrane mechanical testing & test tooling
• Miniature actuator selection and precision mechanism design
• Development of basic manufacturing process from scratch and finding and building relationships with specialists’ vendors
• Designing, building, and testing head-mounted prototype products for internal use
• Integration of optical components, sensors, and actuators into prototype products

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical or Opto-Mechanical Engineering
• GD&T experience and proficiency with tolerance analysis
• 10 plus years industry experience in mechanical engineer role, with system or product ownership
• Experience with optical component packaging and basic metrology
• CAD design skills, Solidworks preferred but not required
• FEA simulation for static structural, thermal and dynamic analysis of mechanical components and systems
• Experience designing, building, and testing prototypes
• System integration
• Electromechanical Systems
• Precision mechanism design

Preferred Qualifications:

• Optical ray tracing and modeling
• Machine Design experience
• Low volume (prototype) plastic parts – printing, casting, dip molding, bonding, ultrasonic welding, vacuum forming
• Establishing small-volume manufacturing processes from scratch
• Designing for human interaction, ergonomics, anthropometrics
• Mechatronics design
• Understanding basic optics fundamentals

Top 3 must-have hard skills:

• 5 plus years of experience is fine
• experience in mechanical CAD, MACHINING, 3d PRINTING, LASER CUTTING

Good to have skills:

• Optical mechanical
• Working across different disciplines
• Dealing with working around and installing PCBs
• Experience with ergo models, body worn products, watch, car seat, glasses

Story Behind the Need – Business Group and Key Projects:

• Cave project , but several different areas where help is needed

Compelling Story and Candidate Value Proposition:

• Get to work on the intersection on graphics and human connection - little tests in a head set to room scale - AR VR Graphics

Typical Day in the Role:

• Building headsets, running a scale system - designing for benchtop and larger displays- focused around experiments, combination of building.
• working with some electrical engineers

How will performance be measured:

• Creative and adaptable, we have an idea that this might work based on the way the optical system works- getting to work quickly on testing a hypothesis

Pay Range: $80+/hr
The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.

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Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and test custom metrology equipment and low volume manufacturing, alignment, and optical assembly equipment
• Design and ownership of electro-mechanical and electro-optical mechanisms including assembly and system testing and tuning
• Explore and develop novel processing methods
• Develop and present concept design reviews and status updates to research teams
• Polymer materials and flexible membrane mechanical testing & test tooling
• Miniature actuator selection and precision mechanism design
• Development of basic manufacturing process from scratch and finding and building relationships with specialists’ vendors
• Designing, building, and testing head-mounted prototype products for internal use
• Integration of optical components, sensors, and actuators into prototype product

Typical Day in the Role:

• Building headsets, running a scale system - designing for benchtop and larger displays- focused around experiments, combination of building.
• working with some electrical engineer