Principal Mechanical Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Franklin, Massachusetts, US; support required at both the Franklin and Devens facilities.

Salary: $134,000–$175,000 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global develops defense, aerospace, security, robotic, autonomous, maritime, and military technology products, including systems supporting the American Warfighter, Security Forces, and Allies.

What you will do

• Design, develop, analyze, and maintain military and commercial hardware products, including ruggedized maritime electronics, robotic ground vehicles, vehicle autonomy hardware, and ground robots.
• Act as a technical lead for existing and new products, evaluating design changes, planning and overseeing design tasks, and reviewing and approving design documentation.
• Perform electromechanical design, layout, modeling, electronics packaging, production support, tolerance analysis, and detailed drawing creation using SolidWorks and/or Creo.
• Analyze complex mechanical systems with ANSYS Workbench, including vibration, shock, fluids, structural loading, and thermal performance using explicit and implicit modeling.
• Apply design-for-manufacturability practices and provide technical guidance to vendors, manufacturing personnel, and assembly teams for DoD electromechanical assemblies.
• Interface with customers and vendors, write specifications, reports, and proposals, present technical information, process engineering changes, and disposition discrepant material.

Requirements

• 10–20 years of experience in mechanical design.
• Direct project engineering or technical lead experience managing design tasks.
• Experience performing finite element analysis and designing maritime systems and hardware.
• Experience designing robotic systems and hardware.
• Ability to follow mechanical programs from inception through system integration and lead design teams of up to six engineers or designers.
• Knowledge of sheet metal fabrication, machining processes, stage-gate and design-cycle processes, and welding standards and practices.
• Experience processing engineering changes to documentation on DoD programs.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• Must support both the Devens and Franklin facilities and be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance if required.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience with ANSYS Fluent and CFX.
• Ability to develop analytical models for forced and free convection systems in Excel or MathCAD.
• Strong understanding of structural systems, DoD shock and vibration, and system dynamics.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with multidisciplinary teams addressing complex defense, aerospace, security, robotics, and autonomous-systems challenges.
• Workplace flexibility and support for employee and family health and well-being.
• Diverse and inclusive work environment focused on professional and personal development.
• Opportunity to contribute to products intended to protect people and maintain critical infrastructure.