Principal Mechanical Engineer
Advanced Input Systems · Coeur d'Alene, ID · 1 mo ago
On-siteFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: About 1HMX (company description) maybe "About the role"? Actually "About 1HMX" is company description, not role. The role summary is there. We need to decide headings: "About the role" could be the role summary paragraph. "Responsibilities" from Key Responsibilities. "Qualifications" from Required and Preferred? The posting has "Qualifications Required" and "Preferred". Could combine into Qualifications. Also "Skills" maybe from abilities listed. "Benefits", "Pay", "Schedule" not present. So we should not include those sections. Also "Work Conditions" maybe could be under "Work Conditions" but not in allowed headings; we could maybe put under "About the role"? But we must only use allowed headings. So we can include sections: About the role (role summary), Responsibilities, Qualifications, Skills (maybe derived from abilities). However we must not invent content; we can list skills as bullet points from abilities. The posting includes many ability statements: Ability to communicate effectively..., Ability to manage individual design projects..., Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects..., Demonstrated track record mentoring engineers..., Advanced CAD/CAE experience..., etc. Those could be considered Skills. Also technical skills: plastic, elastomer, metal part design, materials science, EMC compliance, rapid prototyping, electronic packaging, 3D CAD (SolidWorks), etc. Those could be Skills.
We need to preserve all substantive information; we cannot drop details. So we need to include all content from the posting, organized under headings.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID.
We must remove boilerplate: Equal Opportunity paragraph, maybe also "Work Conditions" could be kept? It's not a standard heading but we could include as a paragraph under About the role? But we must preserve all substantive information; we could include Work Conditions as a paragraph under About the role or maybe under a separate heading not allowed; but we cannot create new headings not in list. So we could incorporate Work Conditions details into About the role or Responsibilities? Better to add a paragraph under About the role after role summary? But About the role is for role summary; we could add a subsection? Not allowed. Perhaps we can treat Work Conditions as part of "About the role" as additional paragraph. That's acceptable.
We must not include EEO boilerplate.
We must not include duplicated lines.
Let's extract content:
Company description: "About 1HMX 1HMX family of brands, including Advanced Input Systems (AIS), is a global leader in Human Machine eXperience (HMX) solutions, delivering innovative, high-performance products that power the future of human interaction with technology. Our portfolio includes electro-mechanical assemblies, virtual reality components, infection control interfaces, and industrial and medical display systems. With a focus on quality, precision, and customer satisfaction, we support a wide range of industries from our state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities across Coeur d'Alene (Idaho), Taiwan, and Shenzhen, China."
Role Summary: "1HMX / AIS is looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to serve as the senior-most technical authority on mechanical and electromechanical design across our most complex and strategically important programs. This individual will set technical direction, resolve the hardest design and manufacturing problems, and mentor other engineers, while still driving designs end to end from ideation through qualification and into production. Projects will range from internal innovations to flagship products with world leading brands. Technology includes plastic injection molding, elastomeric molding, machining, metal forming and stamping. This is a role for an experienced engineer who thrives on ambiguity and hard problems, influences technical strategy beyond a single project, works closely with customers and factory teams at the executive and technical level, and takes ownership of outcomes across the broader engineering organization."
Key Responsibilities (list):
- Leads architectural and detailed mechanical/electromechanical design on the most complex programs, utilizing 1HMX technology to exceed customer requirements and specifications.
- Assists in performing costing activities to support sales growth.
- Works with customers to help establish design definitions.
- Sets technical direction and roadmap for mechanical design capabilities, driving innovation that builds long-term 1HMX value.
- Owns the development and maintenance of design standards and best practices across the mechanical engineering organization.
- Coordinates mechanical/electromechanical design activities with the responsible Project Manager.
- Reviews designs with Manufacturing to ensure the product is manufacturable.
- Responsible for the mechanical/electromechanical facets of assigned projects through production.
- Lead reliability and testing of designs.
- Mentors and provides technical guidance to other mechanical engineers, raising the design and problem-solving capability of the team.
- Provides technical leadership across multiple concurrent programs, stepping in to resolve the most difficult design and manufacturability issues.
- Represents 1HMX / AIS in senior technical discussions with strategic customers and partners.
- Participate in technical design review meetings.
Qualifications Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
- 12 plus years of relevant product design experience, including demonstrated technical leadership on complex programs.
- Deep, proven experience designing and analyzing complex multi-part mechanisms and mechanical/electromechanical assemblies, from concept through production.
- Strong analytical abilities in math, stress, and thermal analysis.
- Attention to detail, tolerancing, accuracy, and speed of execution.
- Experience with plastic, elastomer, and metal part design and fabrication.
- Solid foundation in materials science.
- Familiarity with designing for EMC compliance.
- Rapid prototyping experience.
- Electronic packaging experience.
- 3D CAD tool experience, preferably with SolidWorks.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with customers, vendors, and factory personnel.
- Ability to manage individual design projects from conception through production.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
- Demonstrated track record mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction beyond a single project team.
- Advanced CAD/CAE experience, e.g., advanced surfacing and FEA.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience with industry-standard PC interfaces.
- Experience holding or contributing to patents, or publishing/presenting technical work externally.
- Experience with statistical quality control and inspection techniques.
- Familiarity with FDA, TUV, EC, FCC, and other applicable agency requirements.
- Familiarity with reliability engineering methodologies, including worst-case, stress, and durability analysis and HALT.
- Experience establishing sourcing and tooling strategies.
- Experience with direct customer technical communication and guidance.
Work Conditions:
- Some domestic and occasional global travel to support customers and 1HMX / AIS facilities.
- Ability to work in lab, prototype shop, and manufacturing environments with appropriate PPE.
We need to output HTML fragment with headings for each section we include.
We need to decide which sections to include: About the role (role summary + company description? maybe combine). Responsibilities. Qualifications (could combine Required and Preferred). Skills (maybe extract abilities). But we must not invent sections; we can include Skills if we have content that maps to skills. The posting includes many ability statements that could be considered skills. However we already have Qualifications covering education, experience, abilities. Could we treat Qualifications as covering both required and preferred? The instruction says use headings for sections like Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we could have Qualifications (education/experience) and Skills (technical abilities). But we must not create a section if content is thin or placeholder. We have plenty of skill-like content: plastic, elastomer, metal part design, materials science, EMC compliance, rapid prototyping, electronic packaging, 3D CAD (SolidWorks), advanced surfacing, FEA, statistical quality control, reliability engineering, sourcing/tooling strategies, etc. Those could be Skills.
But we also have many ability statements that could be considered Skills as well. However we risk duplicating content if we split. Better to keep Qualifications for education/experience and maybe Skills for technical abilities. But we must preserve all info; we can split.
Let's extract Qualifications (education/experience):
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
- 12 plus years of relevant product design experience, including demonstrated technical leadership on complex programs.
- Deep, proven experience designing and analyzing complex multi-part mechanisms and mechanical/electromechanical assemblies, from concept through production.
- Strong analytical abilities in math, stress, and thermal analysis.
- Attention to detail, tolerancing, accuracy, and speed of execution.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with customers, vendors, and factory personnel.
- Ability to manage individual design projects from conception through production.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
- Demonstrated track record mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction beyond a single project team.
- Advanced CAD/CAE experience, e.g., advanced surfacing and FEA.
These are more like qualifications/experience.
Skills (technical):
- Experience with plastic, elastomer, and metal part design and fabrication.
- Solid foundation in materials science.
- Familiarity with designing for EMC compliance.
- Rapid prototyping experience.
- Electronic packaging experience.
- 3D CAD tool experience, preferably with SolidWorks.
- Experience with industry-standard PC interfaces.
- Experience holding or contributing to patents, or publishing/presenting technical work externally.
- Experience with statistical quality control and inspection techniques.
- Familiarity with FDA, TUV, EC, FCC, and other applicable agency requirements.
- Familiarity with reliability engineering methodologies, including worst-case, stress, and durability analysis and HALT.
- Experience establishing sourcing and tooling strategies.
- Experience with direct customer technical communication and guidance.
Note some overlap: "Experience with direct customer technical communication and guidance" similar to ability to communicate effectively. Might be duplicate but we can keep.
Work Conditions: we could incorporate into About the role as a paragraph after role summary? Or maybe we could create a section "Work Conditions" but not allowed heading. So we need to fit it somewhere. Perhaps we can add a paragraph under About the role after role summary, describing work conditions. That preserves info.
Now we need to output HTML:
for each section we include.
We need to decide which sections to include: About the role (role summary + company description? maybe combine). Responsibilities. Qualifications (could combine Required and Preferred). Skills (maybe extract abilities). But we must not invent sections; we can include Skills if we have content that maps to skills. The posting includes many ability statements that could be considered skills. However we already have Qualifications covering education, experience, abilities. Could we treat Qualifications as covering both required and preferred? The instruction says use headings for sections like Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we could have Qualifications (education/experience) and Skills (technical abilities). But we must not create a section if content is thin or placeholder. We have plenty of skill-like content: plastic, elastomer, metal part design, materials science, EMC compliance, rapid prototyping, electronic packaging, 3D CAD (SolidWorks), advanced surfacing, FEA, statistical quality control, reliability engineering, sourcing/tooling strategies, etc. Those could be Skills.
But we also have many ability statements that could be considered Skills as well. However we risk duplicating content if we split. Better to keep Qualifications for education/experience and maybe Skills for technical abilities. But we must preserve all info; we can split.
Let's extract Qualifications (education/experience):
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
- 12 plus years of relevant product design experience, including demonstrated technical leadership on complex programs.
- Deep, proven experience designing and analyzing complex multi-part mechanisms and mechanical/electromechanical assemblies, from concept through production.
- Strong analytical abilities in math, stress, and thermal analysis.
- Attention to detail, tolerancing, accuracy, and speed of execution.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with customers, vendors, and factory personnel.
- Ability to manage individual design projects from conception through production.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
- Demonstrated track record mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction beyond a single project team.
- Advanced CAD/CAE experience, e.g., advanced surfacing and FEA.
These are more like qualifications/experience.
Skills (technical):
- Experience with plastic, elastomer, and metal part design and fabrication.
- Solid foundation in materials science.
- Familiarity with designing for EMC compliance.
- Rapid prototyping experience.
- Electronic packaging experience.
- 3D CAD tool experience, preferably with SolidWorks.
- Experience with industry-standard PC interfaces.
- Experience holding or contributing to patents, or publishing/presenting technical work externally.
- Experience with statistical quality control and inspection techniques.
- Familiarity with FDA, TUV, EC, FCC, and other applicable agency requirements.
- Familiarity with reliability engineering methodologies, including worst-case, stress, and durability analysis and HALT.
- Experience establishing sourcing and tooling strategies.
- Experience with direct customer technical communication and guidance.
Note some overlap: "Experience with direct customer technical communication and guidance" similar to ability to communicate effectively. Might be duplicate but we can keep.
Work Conditions: we could incorporate into About the role as a paragraph after role summary? Or maybe we could create a section "Work Conditions" but not allowed heading. So we need to fit it somewhere. Perhaps we can add a paragraph under About the role after role summary, describing work conditions. That preserves info.
Now we need to output HTML:
About the role
Company description paragraph.
Role summary paragraph.
Work Conditions: Some domestic and occasional global travel... Ability to work in lab...
But we should not label "Work Conditions:" as bold; just include as prose. Better to combine: After role summary, add a sentence about work conditions. Let's craft: About 1HMX ... (company description). Role Summary: 1HMX / AIS is looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer ... (role summary). Work Conditions: Some domestic and occasional global travel to support customers and 1HMX / AIS facilities. Ability to work in lab, prototype shop, and manufacturing environments with appropriate PPE. Now Responsibilities:Responsibilities
- ... each.
Qualifications
- ... each.
Skills
- ... each.