Mechanical Architect

Sioux Group; Eindhoven; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible 32-40 hour work week

Work from home option

€6000 training budget per year

Holidays and team events

Job summary

Sioux Group, based in the Brainport region, seeks a Mechanical Architect to shape mechanical architecture for cutting-edge high-tech equipment. You will collaborate across disciplines with customers, project teams, and management to translate needs into robust designs and drive innovation.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional coordination, and delivering complex mechanical solutions while maintaining a broad systems view across multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in Mechanical or Mechatronic Engineering.
• Proven track record in mechanical design within high-tech systems and/or equipment.
• 10 to 15 years of experience in mechatronic and precision system design, depending on seniority level.
• Broad multidisciplinary orientation; integrates mechanical expertise into complex systems.
• Strong analytical and abstract thinking with proficiency in methods.
• Excellent communication for collaboration with stakeholders.
• Recognized as a technical leader with deep design, mechanisms, and DfX knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers, architects, Project Manager, Account Manager, and project teams to ensure alignment and synergy.
• Translate customer needs into specifications, define mechanical architecture, budgets, and conceptual designs.
• Specify test and integration requirements to complete the V-model development cycle and ensure quality.
• Build and maintain internal and external networks to support organizational growth.
• Drive innovation by introducing new technologies and practical solutions.
• Lead by example, motivating designers and engineers to own their deliverables.
• Manage broader scopes including stakeholder management and technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Mechatronic design

High-tech systems

Technical leadership

DfX knowledge

Education

MSc or PhD in Mechanical or Mechatronic Engineering

Job description

As a Mechanical Architect, your role is essential in contributing to challenging business cases and technical roadmaps from a mechanical perspective and in a multi-disciplinary context.

In this role, you support our customers in the high-tech industry with developing cutting-edge equipment, both in the Brainport region and internationally. Together with experts in mechanics, mechatronics, electronics, software, and mathematics, you will bring high-tech solutions to life, such as advanced lithography machines, compact electron microscopes or medical devices that automate human tissue analysis.

What excites you as a Mechanical Architect?

From our office in Eindhoven and sometimes at our clients' premises you like to keep yourself busy with:

• Close collaboration with customers, fellow architects, the Project Manager, Account Manager, and the broader project team to ensure alignment and synergy.
• You translate customer needs into specifications, define mechanical architecture, budgets, and conceptual designs of (sub)systems.
• Specification of test and integration requirements to complete the V-model development cycle and ensure product design quality.
• Building and maintaining internal and external networks to support organizational growth and success.
• Drive innovation by introducing new technologies and solutions, applying theoretical principles in practical project contexts.
• Lead by example, motivating designers and engineers to take ownership of their deliverables.
• As an Architect Mechanics, you manage broader, more complex scopes of work, including stakeholder management, technical leadership, and guiding larger multidisciplinary teams.

Sounds good so far? We'd love to tell you more…

Your future workplace

This is what you bring to the table

• MSc or PhD in Mechanical or Mechatronic Engineering.
• Proven track record in mechanical design within high-tech systems and/or equipment.
• 10 to 15 years of experience in mechatronic and precision system design, depending on seniority level.
• Broad multidisciplinary orientation, understanding how mechanical expertise integrates within complex systems.
• Strong analytical and abstract thinking skills, with proficiency in various analysis methods.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Recognized as a technical leader and inspirational coach, with deep theoretical and practical knowledge in technical design, mechanisms, precision mechanics, and Design for Excellence (DfX).

This is what you can expect in return from Sioux

• Flexible 32-40 hour working week, with room to work from home.
• A healthy work-life balance is very important to us. We have 28 holidays with an option to buy an additional 12 holidays.
• You will work with passionate colleagues who share your drive for technology and business success.
• By combining our expertise in software, electronics, mechanics, mechatronics, mathematics and assembly, we make the impossible possible for our customers and get to work on challenging high-tech projects.
• You get a lot of freedom and responsibility; after all, you know exactly what you are doing.
• Personal coaching and a training budget of €6000 per year, so that you can continue to develop yourself.
• We also find it important to have fun together. We organize a lot for our employees, from family festivals and sparkling Christmas parties, to inspiring knowledge sessions for the high-tech community.
• Our Sioux office is located in a prime location in the heart of the Brainport region. At our main office you can enjoy lunch, sports, making music, and sharing your knowledge with colleagues in one of our Tech Labs.

High Tech & High Fun

We can tell you all about the typical Sioux culture and the challenging high-tech projects. About how you can develop yourself like nowhere else. But we prefer to leave this to our own colleagues.

Important note:

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the US Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R.

• 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require Sioux to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.