Senior Mechanical Design Engineer: Robotics & Validation

Productive Resources; Kansas; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Retirement Savings (401k)

Paid Time Off

Professional development

Flexible Spending Plans

Job summary

Productive Resources seeks a Senior Design Engineer to lead the mechanical design of our robot platform at our Lenexa facility. You will own from requirements through production drawings, collaborating with software and electrical teams to integrate sensors and control systems.

You will design for field conditions, perform tolerance analysis, and drive durability and manufacturability, mentoring junior engineers and guiding design rigor across the hardware team.

Qualifications

• 7 years of mechanical design experience.
• Background in off-highway vehicles, automotive, agricultural equipment, or industrial vehicles.
• Proficiency in 3D CAD (SolidWorks strongly preferred); GD&T, tolerance stack-up analysis, and DFM for external manufacturing.
• Experience taking a design from prototype through production drawing release.
• Hands-on with physical hardware: built things, tested them, and redesigned them.
• Working knowledge of FEA and structural analysis preferred.
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field.
• Proven toughness and ability to work in a small team.

Responsibilities

• Own mechanical design of new systems from requirements and architecture through detailed CAD, tolerance analysis, and released drawings.
• Document control: manage CAD files, requirements, and design document revisions.
• Ensure BOMs and documents are updated and accurate for fast-paced environments.
• Design for the field: soil abrasion, vibration, dust ingress, impact, and thermal cycling.
• Apply DFMEA and robust design to predict and prevent edge cases and failures.
• Build and instrument test rigs; develop test/DVP&R plans and validate in the field with operations.
• Collaborate with software and electrical engineers to integrate sensors, actuators, and control systems.
• Perform tolerance stack-ups and produce DFM-ready drawings for manufacturing partners.
• Incorporate field failure data to continuously improve designs.
• Apply RCCA or FRACAS and document learnings from cycles of improvement.
• Mentor junior engineers and uphold design rigor on the hardware team.

Skills

Mechanical design

3D CAD SolidWorks

GD&T

Tolerance analysis

DFMEA

RCCA/FRACAS

Mentoring engineers

Production release

Education

Bachelor's or MS in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

FEA

Job description

Productive Resources seeks a Senior Design Engineer to lead the mechanical design of our robot platform at our Lenexa facility. You will own from requirements through production drawings, collaborating with software and electrical teams to integrate sensors and control systems.

You will design for field conditions, perform tolerance analysis, and drive durability and manufacturability, mentoring junior engineers and guiding design rigor across the hardware team.