About the role
What You’ll Do
* Develop a strong system-level understanding of the Stride product, including the mechanical system and its interactions with controls, electrical hardware, manufacturing, installation, and service. * Own complex mechanical projects or major areas of the product from problem definition through design, analysis, prototyping, validation, documentation, release, and production support. * Lead investigations into reliability and performance issues using structured root-cause analysis, testing, field data, and sound engineering judgment. * Identify recurring problems and develop robust solutions that address underlying causes rather than individual symptoms. * Evaluate how proposed changes affect the broader product, including reliability, safety, cost, manufacturability, installation, serviceability, and compatibility with existing systems. * Support the adaptation of the Stride platform for new customers, applications, environments, and market segments while managing product complexity. * Provide technical direction for mechanical projects or subsystem-level work involving other engineers and cross-functional partners. * Create and maintain high-quality engineering documentation, including requirements, calculations, drawings, bills of material, test plans, test reports, design reviews, and engineering change orders. * Work closely with manufacturing, sourcing, quality, controls, electrical engineering, installation, service, and product management. * Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and recommendations clearly to both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders. * Review the work of other engineers and help strengthen the team’s technical practices, product knowledge, and documentation quality. * Mentor less-experienced engineers and contribute to a collaborative and accountable engineering culture.
What We’re Looking For
* Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related engineering discipline. * 5+ years of experience * Considerable experience designing, developing, and supporting complex mechanical or electromechanical products. * Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals, including mechanisms, structural design, materials, tolerancing, manufacturing processes, and component selection. * Demonstrated ability to independently investigate ambiguous technical problems and bring them to a documented, production-ready resolution. * Experience improving the reliability of an existing product through root-cause analysis, testing, and design changes. * Ability to understand system-level behavior and recognize how a change in one area may affect the rest of the product. * Sound engineering judgment and the ability to make practical tradeoffs among technical performance, risk, cost, schedule, and product complexity. * Experience taking designs through release and change-control processes, including drawings, bills of material, design reviews, validation, and engineering changes. * Willingness to take ownership of both highly technical work and the detailed documentation required to implement it successfully. * Ability to work autonomously while building alignment within a multidisciplinary team.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with industrial automation, material-handling equipment, robotics, conveyors, or other complex machinery. * Experience supporting products deployed in customer or production environments. * Familiarity with reliability engineering methods, failure analysis, risk assessment, and design verification. * Experience designing for manufacturing, assembly, installation, maintenance, and field service. * Experience with SolidWorks, PDM or PLM systems, and formal engineering change-control processes. * Experience mentoring engineers or improving team processes, tools, or technical standards.
You May Be a Strong Fit If You
* Prefer improving and evolving a real, fielded product over working exclusively on new concepts. * Naturally look beyond the immediate design problem to understand its effect on the full system. * Enjoy finding patterns across field issues and turning them into durable product improvements. * Can move comfortably between system-level technical discussions and detailed design or documentation work. * Are willing to question existing approaches while respecting the knowledge embedded in an established product. * Take satisfaction in closing the loop: confirming that a design works, documenting it correctly, and ensuring that it can be built and supported. * Influence decisions through technical credibility, clear reasoning, collaboration, and consistent follow-through.