Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager
Gridware
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $170,000 - $216,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing mechanical engineering team with a focus on reliability engineering, ruggedization, and design excellence.
- Drive technical direction, coaching, and best-practice adoption across CAD standards, modeling, analysis, and documentation.
- Establish team norms around DFM/DFA, design reviews, requirement-setting, and risk management.
- Lead recruiting efforts for expanding mechanical/hardware engineering roles.
- Oversee the mechanical architecture of Gridware’s sensing devices, including enclosures, thermal paths, fastening, sealing, and mechanical-electrical integration.
- Ensure designs meet field durability requirements relating to shock, vibration, moisture ingress, UV exposure, thermal cycling, wildlife/weather interaction, and long-term corrosion.
- Direct trade studies, material selection, tolerance stack-ups, and structural/thermal simulations.
- Own the release of engineering drawings, documentation, ECOs, and revision control.
- Partner with EE, firmware, and data teams to ensure mechanical constraints and design choices integrate seamlessly with system performance, power budgets, and sensing requirements.
- Work closely with manufacturing, supply chain, and operations on tooling, test fixtures, jigs, and scalable production processes.
- Collaborate with field engineering teams to incorporate real-world deployment insights back into design requirements.
- Support safety, compliance, and certification processes (UL, FCC, environmental standards).
- Translate product requirements into engineering specifications with clear performance, reliability, and manufacturability targets.
- Develop project timelines, staffing plans, and technical risk mitigation strategies.
- Lead root cause analyses for field or production issues and drive corrective actions.
- Champion continuous improvement across prototyping workflows, build processes, and supplier engagement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field (Master’s preferred).
- 8+ years of experience in mechanical product development, preferably in ruggedized or field-deployed hardware.
- 3+ years leading engineering teams or managing cross-functional deliverables.
- Strong proficiency with CAD (SolidWorks preferred), GD&T, DFM/DFA, and mechanical system modeling.
- Experience designing for harsh environmental conditions, vibration/shock loading, and IP-rated enclosures.
- Proven track record delivering hardware from concept through production and field deployment.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and technical decision-making skills.
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)
- Paid parental leave
- Alternating day off (every other Monday)
- “Off the Grid”, a two week per year paid break for all employees.
- Commuter allowance
- Company-paid training
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
mechanical engineeringreliability engineeringruggedizationCADDFMDFAGD&Tmechanical system modelingmaterial selectionstructural simulations
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcoachingcommunicationtechnical decision-makingcollaborationproject managementrisk managementcontinuous improvementproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical EngineeringMaster’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (preferred)