Resident Mechanical Engineer, Modular R&D

About the Role

Own the mechanical systems of the modular product on the line—cooling, piping, and airflow—from released drawings through rate production. Live on the Phoenix manufacturing floor: walk the line daily, catch piping and assembly issues at the station where they happen, and disposition them on the spot. Run first-article reviews, fit checks, and pressure tests in person as units come down the line. Answer mechanical RFIs same-day from the floor, and engineer the fix into the next revision rather than leaving it as a one-off deviation. Close the loop to design: feed what the line learns back into drawings, tolerances, and the BOM so the same issue never builds twice.

Key Problems the Team Is Solving

• Take modular data center designs from released drawings through first article to rate production on the Phoenix manufacturing line
• Engineer cooling, piping, and airflow systems that build clean at station, pass pressure test the first time, and hold up in the field
• Close the loop between the factory floor and design so every build issue gets killed in the drawing, not patched unit by unit
• Compress the cycle from design revision to line implementation without losing configuration control

What We're Looking For

• You've engineered mechanical systems for complex physical products or modular construction hands-on, not from a desk
• You've worked on a shop floor or production line, and dispositioning a nonconformance in the moment is familiar work, not an escalation
• You've supported production launches of your own designs and stayed with them through the problems that only show up at rate
• Your drawings build clean: fabricators rarely call, and when they do, you fix the drawing
• You've run first-article builds and pressure tests personally, and when something failed, you traced it to the drawing or the process rather than reworking units one at a time
• You iterate fast without losing configuration control: every fix lands in a controlled revision, and the line always knows which one it's building

Bonus Qualifications

• Liquid cooling depth
• Piping and pressure testing experience
• Sheet metal design
• Strong DFM instincts

Compensation

$169K - $208K