Senior Design Engineer
Acuity
Assembly
Staff Mechanical Engineer
ecobee
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto • 🇨🇦 Canada
Visit company websiteJob Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Assembly
About the role
- Lead mechanical design from overall architecture through detailed drawings and documentation
- Optimize existing products for improved quality, capacity, and cost efficiency
- Drive Design for Manufacturability (DFM) throughout development: identify issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering) and external suppliers to ensure new products meet design, quality, and cost targets
- Manage project timelines and deliverables to ensure on-time, on-plan product launches
- Research and evaluate materials, components, and emerging technologies for innovative solutions
- Oversee prototype builds with suppliers and contract manufacturers, ensuring specifications, budget, and schedule are met
- Administer PLM processes: release prototypes, author assembly/test procedures, and hand off to mass production
- Source and qualify vendors, suppliers, and contractors; build strategic relationships for global component sourcing
- Define, procure, and qualify test equipment for product validation and compliance
- Hands-on integration of design and production; shepherd prototypes into high-volume manufacturing
- Required hands-on presence in Toronto office 3–5 days per week
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Biomedical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years in manufacturing electromechanical products
- Advanced CAD skills (SolidWorks and PDM preferred)
- Strong leadership, mentorship, and project-management abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication with internal teams, suppliers, and customers worldwide
- Expertise in electromechanical assemblies (LCDs, batteries, sensors, flex circuits, PCBs, antennas, buttons)
- Proficiency in DFM/DFA, statistical tolerance analysis, functional dimensioning, and GD&T
- Skilled in statistical analysis and data-driven decision making
- Experience with manufacturing processes (injection molding, sheet metal, stamping, MIM, CNC machining, soft goods) and process validation
- Familiarity with reliability testing, cosmetic QA, and standard mechanical test methods
- Track record in product validation (shock/drop, cycle, environmental testing)
- Experience collaborating with Asian high-volume manufacturing facilities
- Self-motivated, adaptable, and capable of managing multiple concurrent projects
- Willingness to travel internationally ~4–5 weeks per year
- Background check required
- Preferred: experience in high-volume manufacturing; HVAC system knowledge; wireless antenna integration in enclosures (Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi); MID/LDS experience; audio subsystem design (microphones, speakers); optical or camera system design; thermal modeling and analysis
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Health benefits
- Progressive Parental Top-Up Program (75% top-up or five bonus days off)
- Flexible hours
- Option of office-based, fully remote, or hybrid work environment
- Necessary equipment provided and shipped for remote new hires
- Generous professional learning budget
- Mentorship program and bias training
- Fun and casual workplace culture
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
mechanical designDesign for Manufacturability (DFM)CADSolidWorkselectromechanical assembliesstatistical tolerance analysisfunctional dimensioningGD&Tmanufacturing processesproduct validation
Soft skills
leadershipmentorshipproject managementcommunicationadaptabilityself-motivationcollaborationproblem-solvingtime managementrelationship building
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical EngineeringBachelor’s degree in MechatronicsBachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering
