Hardware Engineer (Architect)

Dexterity; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexterity seeks an experienced Hardware Engineering Architect to define and scale its hardware, leading architecture decisions from feasibility to mass production. You will drive standardization, modularity, and reusability across multiple applications and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align with market requirements.

In this role you will lead technical roadmaps, oversee design reviews, and contribute to selecting materials and components while ensuring DFMEA, DFx, and regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience with electrical systems design and integration for industrial applications.
• - Hands-on mechanical design using 3D CAD (SolidWorks) and 2D drawings.
• - 15+ years of related work experience including scale-up to production.
• - Experience with hardware/software interfaces and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define and scale hardware architecture for modular, reusable designs.
• - Lead hardware architecture design and implementation across applications.
• - Conduct design reviews and ensure design for manufacturing.
• - Collaborate with cross-functional teams and vendors to meet specs and regulatory standards.

Skills

Electrical systems design

3D CAD

SolidWorks

Hardware architecture

PDM/PLM

Technical writing

DFMEA/DFx

Team collaboration

Education

BS in ME/EE

Tools

SolidWorks

PDM/PLM

3D CAD

Job description

• We are seeking an experienced Hardware Engineering Architect to define and scale Dexterity’s hardware. As a Hardware Architect, you will be responsible to pioneer across all aspects of hardware activities. The primary responsibility will be to establish hardware architecture to drive standardization, modularity and deep dive into key components to drive hardware design from feasibility to commercialization
• You will provide direction for engineering design, as well as ensure design for manufacturing to meet appropriate market requirements for functionality, durability, reliability, and cost. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive the direction of future hardware design, as well as motivate the optimization of current design
• Your contributions will be crucial in advancing Dexterity’s global expansion and growth
• Lead technical roadmap development for company’s hardware
• Lead hardware architecture design and implementation to maximize hardware reusability across multiple applications
• Lead the research of new materials, components, technologies, and their appropriate use
• Lead hardware block/sub-blocks diagram, promote reusability, flexibility, and maintainability
• Collaborate with peer architects and subject matter experts to facilitate delivery of simplified and differentiated Hardware solutions that solve customer problems that balances efficiency, simplicity, power density, reliability, quality, and cost
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop and qualify products to meet specifications and regulatory requirements
• Modularize existing product designs
• Conduct design reviews
• Support hardware engineering requirements, design verification, DFMEA, DFx activities and vendor interactions
• Travel 15% to vendor / customer locations as projects demand

Ability to manage multiple engineering efforts concurrentlyExperience with electrical systems design and integration for industrial applicationsBS or higher in ME, EE, or other related engineering disciplinesHands-on mechanical design experience using 3D CAD, preferably SolidWorks, including 2D drawings and simulationsExperience with designing complex robotics systems15+ years of related work experience, including having advanced designs from initial concept through scale productionExperience with Hardware and Software interfaces to make decisions for hardware architectureFamiliar with using PDM and PLM systems for the development life cycle on a day-to-day basisHigh level of technical writing proficiency (specs, test plans, reports, white papers, etc.)Experience designing end effectors / grippers / end-of-the-arm-tooling for industrial applicationsFamiliar with Product Life Cycle stages and supply chain process from concept to mass production manufacturingLoud work environment with temperature change due to seasons at office, warehouses and clients’/customers’ locationsProlonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computerWalking/standing long hours and exposed to loud environment/machine and during travel