Senior Mechanical Design Engineer (Palo Alto)

Job Title : Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Location : Palo Alto, CA, 94304

Duration : 6 Months

Job Description

This role will design mechanical test systems for vehicle electronics. Youll work on developing mechanical solutions for design characterization, validation, and manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Design modular and reusable mechanical fixtures for testing vehicle electronics.
• This will start with manual bench-top setups and will evolve to fully automated systems for volume production
• Work with cross-functional engineering groups to define mechanical test requirements for electronics and drive design decisions that help with the testability of ECUs.
• Design custom mechanical interfaces to connect to ECUs.
• This can range from pogo-pin connections to bed-of-nails style probing
• Design rack-based test systems that reduce complexity and improve build time when replicating at scale
• Create well documented diagrams, bills of materials, and standard operating procedures for test automation systems
• Develop and release drawings, BOM and specifications.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors during purchasing, station build, integration and final commissioning
• provide technical oversight to vendors for manufacturing of mechanical components and systems
• Work with technicians to communicate requirements and ensure proper implementation

Qualifications

Nice To Have

Experience with automation instrumentation such as programmable power supplies, multiplexers, DMMs, signal analyzers, signal generators, multifunction devices (digital and analog)