Fluid Systems Engineer

Fluidic Subsystem Ownership

You will own the design, testing, and iteration of beverage plumbing subsystems, including pumps, valves, tubing, fittings, manifolds, sensors, nozzles, and routing architecture.

COTS Component Selection & Validation

Research, select, source, and test commercial off-the-shelf pumps, valves, flow components, fittings, regulators, sensors, and other fluid-handling hardware.

Clean-in-Place & Sanitation

Develop and validate clean-in-place concepts and fluid subsystem designs that support reliable day-to-day operation in a food/beverage environment.

Fluid System Prototyping & Integration

Build, test, and iterate benchtop rigs and integrated prototypes for fluids subsystems, working cross-functionally to optimize dispense repeatability, cleaning performance, reliability, serviceability, and drink quality.

Production Readiness & Risk Reduction

Identify and mitigate fluid-system failure modes while documenting designs, test plans, component specifications, BOM inputs, and supplier requirements to support scalable manufacturing and field service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of hands-on industry experience designing, building, or testing fluidic, plumbing, process, dispensing, or electromechanical systems.
• Experience selecting and validating pumps, valves, tubing, fittings, manifolds, regulators, sensors, or similar fluid-system components.
• Strong understanding of fluid-system fundamentals, including pressure drop, flow rate, priming, venting, backflow prevention, dosing accuracy, and leak prevention.
• Comfortable building test rigs, running experiments, collecting data, troubleshooting failures, and turning test results into design improvements.
• Experience creating or working from P&IDs, plumbing schematics, test plans, component specifications, or engineering documentation.
• Ability to work hands-on in a fast-moving prototype environment with ambiguous requirements and evolving system architecture.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and willingness to collaborate with mechanical, electrical, controls, software, culinary, and operations teammates.
• Prior experience with food or beverage equipment, coffee or espresso machines, automated dispensing systems, lab automation, medical devices, chemical/process systems, robotics, or high-throughput kiosks.
• Experience with clean-in-place systems, sanitation workflows, food-safe materials, or equipment designed for repeated cleaning and daily operation.
• Familiarity with foam generation, gas-liquid mixing, carbonation, or two-phase flow.
• Experience integrating fluidic systems with sensors, controls, or embedded electronics.
• Familiarity with food-contact design considerations, sanitation best practices, and general regulatory expectations for commercial food or beverage equipment.