Senior Mechanical Engineer: End-to-End Hardware for Scale

PulseForge, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PulseForge, Inc. is hiring a senior mechanical engineer to design the next generation of our pulsed-light platform. You will own mechanical architecture from concept to production release, including high-voltage packaging, cooling, and integration with electronics and controls.

You will collaborate with manufacturing and supply chain, drive design-for-manufacturability, and mentor a small team as we scale toward higher throughput and reliability in customer environments.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent technical depth.
• 5+ years designing hardware that was built, tested, and released or deployed.
• Strong 3D CAD. Inventor preferred; SolidWorks, NX, or Creo translate.
• Mechanical fundamentals applied in practice: statics, dynamics, materials, heat transfer, machine design, fasteners, structures, tolerancing, and manufacturability.
• Release-ready output: clean models, drawings, BOMs, and packages that manufacturing and suppliers can build from without coming back to you.
• Design for manufacturability, assembly, serviceability, and cost, including scaling from prototype to production.
• Hands-on experience building, testing, modifying, and troubleshooting hardware.
• Clear communication about tradeoffs, risk, cost, schedule, performance, and release decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design mechanical architecture across machined structures, high-voltage packaging, production racks, lamp heads, and quartz optics.
• Own precision mechanisms, cooling and fluid systems, web and conveyor handling, and the hardware that integrates our systems into customer production lines.
• Work from physics and architecture through drawings, suppliers, assembly, test, field performance, and the next revision.
• This is not a design-only role; provide end-to-end ownership from concept to production release.
• Close, deep collaboration with electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, and supply chain.
• Release decisions and architecture ownership, balancing cost, reliability, and schedule.

Skills

Hardware end-to-end ownership

3D CAD

Inventor

SolidWorks

NX

Creo

Design for manufacturability

Tradeoff communication

Education

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Autodesk Vault

Odoo ERP

BOM management

ECO/ECR

Configuration control

Job description

PulseForge, Inc. is hiring a senior mechanical engineer to design the next generation of our pulsed-light platform. You will own mechanical architecture from concept to production release, including high-voltage packaging, cooling, and integration with electronics and controls.

You will collaborate with manufacturing and supply chain, drive design-for-manufacturability, and mentor a small team as we scale toward higher throughput and reliability in customer environments.