Senior Mechanical Engineer

QUORE IT : Talent Sourcing & Recruitment; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance up to $15K

On-site role in Austin, TX

Job summary

QUORE IT : Talent Sourcing & Recruitment is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join the Equipment Engineering team in Austin, TX. The role focuses on designing, building, and deploying custom manufacturing equipment used to produce AR optical waveguides.

You will own end-to-end designs from concept through fabrication and testing, with a 60/40 split between desk work and hands-on lab work, collaborating with machinists, suppliers, and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (Master's acceptable—reduces YOE minimum to ~2-3 years).
• 5 - 15 years of experience designing custom equipment/machinery, Creo or similar 3D CAD.
• Full-system mechanical engineering experience (automation, precision mechanisms, integration).
• Working knowledge of GD&T and tolerance analysis.
• Experience with DFM/ DFA for machined and fabricated parts.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building custom production equipment, automation systems, fixtures, and electromechanical assemblies from concept through deployment.
• Upgrading and automating metrology equipment and precision process tools (dispensing, curing, measurement systems).
• Working with precision stages, actuators, bearings, control electronics, and multi-axis motion systems at the nanometer scale.
• Collaborating with a sister software team, machinists, suppliers, and cross-functional engineers to get custom tools designed, built, and operational.
• Splitting time roughly 60/40 between desk design work and hands-on lab integration, testing, and troubleshooting.

Job description

Location: Onsite at 9801 Metric Blvd, #100, Austin, TX 78758

Comp range: Up to $160K base + Benefits + Relocation assistance!

US Citizen or Green Card holder — No visa sponsorship available.

Openings: 2

Interview Process: 2 rounds!

Why you should join

• $4.3B+ in total funding from investors like Google, Alibaba, T. Rowe Price, and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund — including a $205M round in 2025 and $590M in debt financing in 2024.
• Core technology team: You'll be on the internal custom equipment engineering team that builds ~50% of clients' manufacturing equipment in-house. This is the engine that powers their AR lens production.
• Hands-on from day one: You'll own designs from concept through fabrication, assembly, and testing. Expect a ~60/40 split between desk design work and lab time — plus a deep backlog of interesting projects waiting.
• Relocation support: Up to $15K reimbursed for candidates moving to Austin, TX. On-site role with reasonable flexibility for life stuff.
• Comp range: $140K–$160K base.

Must Have:

• Has owned the full research cycle, from hypothesis through to a model running in production (Personally designed and built custom equipment or machinery; not modifying off-the-shelf products; must have owned designs from concept through fabrication, assembly, and testing)
• Strong 3D CAD skills. (Creo strongly preferred; SolidWorks or NX acceptable)
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (Master's acceptable — reduces YOE minimum to ~2- 3 years).

Required:

• 5 - 15 years of experience designing custom equipment/machinery, using Creo or similar 3D CAD
• Full-system mechanical engineering (Experience with automation, precision mechanisms, and integration)
• Working knowledge of GD&T and tolerance analysis (Understands how tolerances drive function and can specify appropriate callouts)
• Experience with DFM/DFA for machined and fabricated parts.

Nice to Have:

• Background in semiconductor capital equipment, wafer processing, factory automation, or metrology (E.g., Lam Research, Applied Materials, Flex, or similar custom equipment companies)
• Experience with precision motion, optics, robotics, or nanometer/micron- scale measurement systems.

Red Flag:

• Niche- only engineers — candidates who have only worked on one narrow component (e. g., "the valve guy") without full- system exposure.
• Purely academic or R&D- lab profiles with no production equipment design experience.
• Candidates who have only managed or directed engineering work without personally doing hands- on design.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer with 5+ years of experience to join the client's Equipment Engineering team and design, build, and deploy custom manufacturing equipment used to produce next-generation AR optical waveguides. You'll be a core member of a hands-on hardware team, working at the intersection of precision engineering, automation, and nanometer-scale process development.

What will you be doing?

• Designing and building custom production equipment, automation systems, fixtures, and electromechanical assemblies from concept through deployment
• Upgrading and automating metrology equipment and precision process tools (dispensing, curing, measurement systems)
• Working with precision stages, actuators, bearings, control electronics, and multi-axis motion systems at the nanometer scale
• Collaborating with a sister software team, machinists, suppliers, and cross-functional engineers to get custom tools designed, built, and operational
• Splitting time roughly 60/40 between desk design work and hands-on lab integration, testing, and troubleshooting

Key Requirements

• 5+ years of mechanical engineering experience with a Bachelor's (less with a Master's) personally designing custom equipment or machinery
• Strong 3D CAD skills — Creo strongly preferred; SolidWorks or NX also accepted
• Systems-level thinker who can work across full equipment design, not just niche components — must be comfortable owning an entire system
• Hands-on engineer comfortable taking designs through fabrication, assembly, integration, and testing
• US Citizen or Green Card holder (no visa sponsorship available)

Creo, SolidWorks, NX, Windchill, GD&T, DFM/DFA