Senior Mechanical Engineer

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Company: CivicMinds, Inc.

Location: Milpitas, CA 95035

Description:

Primary Responsibilities:

Based on Marketing requirements, help define and develop product solutions
Deliver high quality ME designs that include complex surfacing, design for manufacturing and design for assembly
Run complex analysis to ensure all mechanical design details perform according to customer requirements
Write complex test reports covering a wide range of details to all cross functional team members
Work independently to create detail designs through concept hand sketches to rough CAD models
Help select and support suppliers for prototyping, tooling and production
Test and evaluate prototypes, tooling and first articles
Manage communications with Asia Suppliers
Work with a wide variety of cross functional disciplines from ID, EE, AE, RF, Marketing, ODM's and more.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

BSME required
MSME desirable
5 to 10 years of design for complex high volume consumer electronic goods
Good working knowledge of design using both injection molded plastics, die casting, sheetmetal and more
Demonstrate a good working knowledge of materialization and the process for selection.
Must demonstrate experience with developing several products from concept to mass production.
3-D CAD skills demonstrating surface design creation using ProE or Nx is a must.
Creative thinking and open to ideas and concept from others
Product genesis and conceptual design skills experience.
Engineering analysis, including strength of materials, tolerance analysis, FEA, and acoustics
Familiarity with regulatory agency requirements for electronic products
Design for manufacturability, high and low volume
Good verbal and written communication
Good interpersonal and people management skills
Able to successfully negotiate with consultants, suppliers and team members
Able to perform hands-on shop and lab work
Must have brought more than 2 projects from initial concept stages to mass production
Must have high volume product design experience. 100K+ units per year.

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