Staff Mechanical Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Enphase Energy
Location: Austin, TX 78745
Description:
Description
About Enphase:
Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 68 million products installed across more than 145 countries.
We are building teams that design, develop, and manufacture next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.
About the role:
The Enphase System Control Innovation (SCI) team in the office of the CTO is responsible for defining, prototyping, and supporting the next generation system control solutions for Enphase products. The team is an integrated, multi-disciplinary group that is fast-moving and looking for motivated individuals that can contribute and collaborate closely with the team to deliver innovative solutions. As a member of the SCI team, you will solve some of the most exciting problems in the distributed energy space and help shape the direction of our products.
The Enphase SCI team is seeking a Staff Mechanical Engineer to develop, integrate, and validate mechanical parts, assemblies, and thermal management designs for next generation system control products and improve current designs.
What you will do:
Design high quality mechanical and electromechanical part and assembly designs efficiently and with good modeling practices
Produce 2D drawings and 3D CAD models, evaluate parts, and collaborate with a multi-disciplinary design team, suppliers, and contract manufacturing partners to develop product prototypes
Perform mechanical analysis, thermal CFD simulation, structural FEA, FMEA, and thermal verification testing to inform designs and resolve issues and failures in prototype products
Complete documentation for design, testing, and analysis
Hands-on fabrication of electromechanical assemblies and prototypes
Work with a multi-disciplinary team to test and troubleshoot prototype designs
Mentor junior staff
Who you are and What you bring:
BS/MS/PhD Mechanical Engineering or closely related discipline
Job title and position level will be determined upon the candidate's experience.
Minimum experience: BS and 5+ years / MS and 3+ years / PhD with mechanical design experience for a Senior Engineer
BS and 8+ years / MS and 6+ years / PhD and 3+ years mechanical design experience for a Staff Engineer
Candidates with greater levels of experience may be considered and are encouraged to apply
Significant experience in product or part design
Proficiency with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, tolerance stackups, and preparing production-quality drawings for parts and assemblies
Experience designing passive and active solutions for thermal management within a product
Expertise leveraging various high volume manufacturing technologies such as injection molding, sheet metal stampings, CNC machining, silicone/rubber molding, die casting, extrusions, laser welding, etc.
High proficiency with an enterprise CAD package (Solidworks preferred)
Experience designing products for reliability and manufacturability
Good communication and documentation skills
Ability to work effectively on early-stage product development efforts with ambiguous requirements
Strong hands-on mechanical prototyping skills
Ability to take ownership of development tasks and drive them to completion in a timely manner and with high quality to support team success
Additional Desired Skills:
Experience developing electromechanical products
High-volume product development experience
Outdoor product design experience for various ingress protection environments
Design experience with Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Assemblies and MCAD/ECAD import/export tools and processes for collaboration between mechanical engineers and PCB layout engineers
Travel:
Occasional travel locally and internationally
The base pay range for this position is $100,000 to $151,000. This salary range may be modified in the future. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, education or training, work location, and market conditions. This position is also eligible for bonus, equity, and benefits.
About Enphase:
Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 68 million products installed across more than 145 countries.
We are building teams that design, develop, and manufacture next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.
About the role:
The Enphase System Control Innovation (SCI) team in the office of the CTO is responsible for defining, prototyping, and supporting the next generation system control solutions for Enphase products. The team is an integrated, multi-disciplinary group that is fast-moving and looking for motivated individuals that can contribute and collaborate closely with the team to deliver innovative solutions. As a member of the SCI team, you will solve some of the most exciting problems in the distributed energy space and help shape the direction of our products.
The Enphase SCI team is seeking a Staff Mechanical Engineer to develop, integrate, and validate mechanical parts, assemblies, and thermal management designs for next generation system control products and improve current designs.
What you will do:
Design high quality mechanical and electromechanical part and assembly designs efficiently and with good modeling practices
Produce 2D drawings and 3D CAD models, evaluate parts, and collaborate with a multi-disciplinary design team, suppliers, and contract manufacturing partners to develop product prototypes
Perform mechanical analysis, thermal CFD simulation, structural FEA, FMEA, and thermal verification testing to inform designs and resolve issues and failures in prototype products
Complete documentation for design, testing, and analysis
Hands-on fabrication of electromechanical assemblies and prototypes
Work with a multi-disciplinary team to test and troubleshoot prototype designs
Mentor junior staff
Who you are and What you bring:
BS/MS/PhD Mechanical Engineering or closely related discipline
Job title and position level will be determined upon the candidate's experience.
Minimum experience: BS and 5+ years / MS and 3+ years / PhD with mechanical design experience for a Senior Engineer
BS and 8+ years / MS and 6+ years / PhD and 3+ years mechanical design experience for a Staff Engineer
Candidates with greater levels of experience may be considered and are encouraged to apply
Significant experience in product or part design
Proficiency with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, tolerance stackups, and preparing production-quality drawings for parts and assemblies
Experience designing passive and active solutions for thermal management within a product
Expertise leveraging various high volume manufacturing technologies such as injection molding, sheet metal stampings, CNC machining, silicone/rubber molding, die casting, extrusions, laser welding, etc.
High proficiency with an enterprise CAD package (Solidworks preferred)
Experience designing products for reliability and manufacturability
Good communication and documentation skills
Ability to work effectively on early-stage product development efforts with ambiguous requirements
Strong hands-on mechanical prototyping skills
Ability to take ownership of development tasks and drive them to completion in a timely manner and with high quality to support team success
Additional Desired Skills:
Experience developing electromechanical products
High-volume product development experience
Outdoor product design experience for various ingress protection environments
Design experience with Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Assemblies and MCAD/ECAD import/export tools and processes for collaboration between mechanical engineers and PCB layout engineers
Travel:
Occasional travel locally and internationally
The base pay range for this position is $100,000 to $151,000. This salary range may be modified in the future. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, education or training, work location, and market conditions. This position is also eligible for bonus, equity, and benefits.