Principal Mechatronics Engineer / Technical Lead

About the role

We are seeking a Principal Mechatronics Engineer & Tech Lead to join our product design team. This role involves leading new technology evaluations, developing product architectures, interfacing with customers, providing technical leadership, and ensuring product compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead new technology evaluations, voice of the customer exercises, competitive benchmarking, and proof of concept generation for pL and nL level precision fluid dispensing market space.
• Develop product architecture of electromechanical systems that include actuators, sensors, control algorithms, integrated data science & digital communication interfaces.
• Interface with customers to demonstrate working prototypes and refine product requirements and capabilities using their feedback.
• Provide technical leadership for an interdisciplinary engineering team to drive new product development from concept to high volume production.
• Create design verification and validation plans, oversee execution of tests, analyze results, debug failures, and support product regulatory compliance certification.

Qualifications

• 8 years’ experience launching electro-mechanical products with actuators, sensors, precision mechanical components, embedded systems, real time control and digital communication interfaces.
• Track record of interdisciplinary technical ownership of firmware/software, electrical and mechanical design team decisions having developed and launched products into production.
• Domain expertise to be an individual contributor in at least one of the following: mechanical, electrical or firmware development while driving high level technical decisions of the other core competencies.
• Understanding of mechanical design, mixed signal circuit design and embedded software development principles.
• Start-up or corporate incubator experience a plus.
• Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical, Electrical or Computer Engineering.