Senior Mechanical Engineer

Aescape, NYC/Metro Area +1

The role

Aescape is looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to own critical mechanical subsystems on our robotic platform. You will take subsystems from concept through design, analysis, prototyping, and validation, and carry them into production alongside our contract manufacturer and key suppliers. This is a hands-on role on a small, senior hardware team: you will design, build, and test your own work, and stay with it through manufacturing bring-up and into the field.

You will work closely with Electrical, Firmware, Controls, Product, and Operations, and you will ship hardware that real people experience with their bodies. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

For this role, we are open to candidates who can work fully on-site from our NYC office OR those based in the greater Boston area, with the ability to travel to our NYC office regularly.

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Senior Mechanical Engineer

Aescape, NYC/Metro Area +1

The role

For this role, we are open to candidates who can work fully on-site from our NYC office OR those based in the greater Boston area, with the ability to travel to our NYC office regularly.

What you need

Education & Experience: BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience, with 5+ years of hands-on mechanical design engineering experience on large-scale electromechanical devices.
Subsystem Ownership: A track record of owning mechanical subsystems through the full product development lifecycle: design, implementation, debugging, verification, qualification, and transfer to manufacturing.
CAD & Analysis Depth: Strong SolidWorks skills, with solid statics, dynamics, kinematics, strength of materials, stress analysis (FEA), and tolerance analysis. You have the engineering intuition to know where a design is likely to fail and the rigor to prove it quantitatively.
Manufacturing Knowledge: Demonstrated knowledge of component manufacturing processes including injection molding, sheet metal, weldments, CNC machining, surface finishes, and painting or powder coating, with a strong understanding of component selection criteria and design for reliability and manufacturability.
Hands-On Builder: You prototype, instrument, characterize, and test your own work, and you are comfortable in the lab and on the factory floor.
Cross-Disciplinary Fluency: Comfortable working with Electrical, Firmware, and Controls engineers, with an understanding of mechanical design as part of a larger electromechanical system.
Communication: Strong written and verbal skills. You explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical partners and communicate effectively with geographically distributed teams and suppliers.
Pragmatic Judgment: You make good calls on tradeoffs with limited data, know when to test and when to decide, and avoid analysis paralysis.
Craftsmanship & Taste: High standards for how the machine looks, sounds, and feels.
Adaptability: A driven self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and able to pivot as priorities shift in a fast-moving startup; willing to take on work outside your core role when required.
Nice to Have: High-volume consumer electronics product development experience; familiarity with design of experiments and statistical methods.
For this role, we are open to candidates who can work fully on-site from our NYC office OR those based in the greater Boston area, with the ability to travel to our NYC office regularly.

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