Principal Mechatronics Engineer / Technical Lead - System Design

About the role

As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, where your ideas and contributions will be valued and respected. Nordson EFD is a global leader in Engineered Fluid Dispensing, and our technology is used in products ranging from mobile devices to life-saving medical devices. We are looking for motivated individuals who care about helping our customers succeed and share our commitment to integrity, respect, energy, and excellence.

We are seeking a talented Principal Mechatronics Engineer & Tech Lead to join the Nordson EFD product design team. In this technical leadership role, you will be responsible for conceiving, architecting, and bringing to market electro-mechanical systems for precision fluid dispensing used in advanced manufacturing processes and medical fluid handling. You will synthesize voice of the customer insights to drive solutions through complex hardware-software implementation, collaborating across functions with an entrepreneurial mindset and analytical, data-driven approaches to make our products smarter, connected, and intelligent.

Responsibilities

• Lead new technology evaluations, voice of customer exercises, competitive benchmarking, and proof of concept generation for picoliter and nanoliter-level precision fluid dispensing markets.
• Develop product architecture for electromechanical systems including actuators, sensors, control algorithms, integrated data science, and digital communication interfaces.
• Interface with customers to demonstrate working prototypes and refine product requirements and capabilities based on 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 test execution, analyze results, debug failures, and support product regulatory compliance certification.

Qualifications

• 8 years of 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 decisions, having developed and launched products into production.
• Domain expertise to serve as an individual contributor in at least one of the following areas while driving high-level technical decisions across other core competencies: mechanical, electrical, or firmware development.
• Understanding of mechanical design, mixed-signal circuit design, and embedded software development principles.
• Start-up or corporate incubator experience is a plus.
• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering.

About Nordson EFD

Nordson EFD is a world-leading designer and manufacturer of fluid dispensing systems and single-use fluid packaging. By joining our team, you will help bring innovative ideas to life in a supportive culture within a growing and dynamic work environment. We offer positions in production, maintenance, customer service, quality, engineering, and more, and actively invest in team development to help you build your skillsets and advance your career.