Senior Mechanical Engineer, Product Design

Sharpe Recruiting Ventures; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits

Generous employee product discounts

Job summary

Sharpe Recruiting Ventures is partnering with a Los Angeles client to recruit a Senior Mechanical Engineer, Product Design. You will own complex consumer electronics from concept through mass production, translating design intent into robust mechanical architectures and selecting manufacturing strategies.

You will drive prototypes, validation, DFMEA, tolerance analysis, and manufacturing collaboration while working with design and electrical teams. On-site in LA with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 8+ years of professional mechanical engineering experience in consumer electronics or electromechanical products.
• End-to-end ownership of multiple products from concept through tooling and mass production.
• Ability to independently lead technically complex mechanical development programs.
• Strong knowledge of GD&T, tolerance analysis, and production drawings.
• Experience with injection molding and other high-volume manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Own the mechanical development from concept to mass production.
• Define product mechanical architecture and manufacturing strategy.
• Translate design concepts into robust, manufacturable products.
• Lead mechanical integration of PCBs, sensors, and electromechanical components.
• Drive prototypes, validation plans, and reliability testing.
• Collaborate with suppliers and tooling partners to retire risk.
• Travel internationally to suppliers and manufacturing partners as required.

Skills

Attention to detail

Ownership mindset

Prototyping & testing

Engineering analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Creo

NX

SolidWorks

CATIA

Job description

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Product Design

Location: Los Angeles, CA, South Bay area (on site, five days a week) Reports To: Director of Product Development and Engineering Type: Full Time

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer who can take ownership of complex consumer electronics products from a rough idea to reliable mass production.

This is not a role for someone who wants to receive a finished specification and execute it.

You will help determine the mechanical architecture, identify the highest technical risks, make difficult engineering tradeoffs, drive prototypes and validation, work directly with suppliers and tooling partners, and remain accountable for the product through production.

You should be comfortable walking into an ambiguous problem and creating structure around it.

Teams here are small and the path to key decision makers is short. Strong technical judgment matters. If you can demonstrate through prototypes, testing, analysis, and engineering fundamentals that there is a better way to build something, you will have both the ability and the responsibility to influence what gets built.

We expect senior engineers to see those details early, understand which ones matter, and drive them to resolution.

What You Will Own

• Own the mechanical development of complex consumer electronics products from concept through mass production and post launch improvement.
• Define product mechanical architecture and establish the fundamental mechanisms, structures, materials, interfaces, and manufacturing strategy.
• Translate Industrial Design concepts into technically robust products without unnecessarily compromising design intent.
• Make engineering tradeoffs across performance, reliability, user experience, manufacturing, cost, schedule, and aesthetics.
• Lead mechanical integration of PCBAs, sensors, motors, batteries, wiring, antennas, displays, and other electromechanical systems.
• Develop and review production CAD, drawings, GD&T, tolerance stacks, specifications, and critical to quality requirements.
• Identify major technical risks early and create focused prototype and validation plans to retire them.
• Drive structured engineering analysis including tolerance analysis, DOE, DFMEA, reliability testing, accelerated life testing, and failure analysis.
• Build and test prototypes to quickly convert assumptions into evidence.
• Lead root cause investigations for difficult mechanical, manufacturing, reliability, and field failures.
• Drive DFM/DFA directly with component suppliers, tooling vendors, and final assembly manufacturers.
• Own mechanical readiness through tooling kickoff, T0/T1 iterations, engineering builds, pilot production, validation, and mass production ramp.
• Resolve issues directly with domestic and overseas vendors rather than relying solely on intermediaries.
• Drive continuous improvement in product performance, reliability, assembly, manufacturability, and cost after launch.
• Raise the engineering standard of the team through rigorous analysis, clear communication, and disciplined decision making.
• Travel internationally to suppliers and manufacturing partners as required by product development and launch schedules.

What We Are Looking For

How You Work

• Passionate and relentless about detail. You notice things other people overlook. A tolerance that does not make sense, a slight change in mechanism feel, an inconsistent gap, an unexplained test result, or a manufacturing assumption without evidence bothers you enough to investigate it. You understand that excellent consumer products are often separated from average ones by hundreds of small engineering decisions. "Good enough" is not automatically good enough.
• Curious, self directed, and current. You find your own answers, propose better approaches, and actively use emerging tools, including AI, to improve research, analysis, and decision making.
• Agile, with a DRI mindset. A Directly Responsible Individual culture means complete ownership of your tasks, projects, and products, and learning fast to adapt to new missions.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 8+ years of professional mechanical engineering experience developing high volume consumer electronics or electromechanical consumer products.
• Demonstrated end to end ownership of multiple products from concept through tooling, validation, and mass production.
• Proven ability to independently lead technically complex mechanical development programs.
• Deep proficiency in parametric 3D CAD. Creo preferred, with strong NX, SolidWorks, or CATIA experience also considered.
• Excellent mechanical engineering fundamentals including statics, dynamics, materials, mechanisms, tolerance analysis, structural behavior, and failure mechanics.
• Deep practical knowledge of injection molded plastic design and tooling.
• Strong working knowledge of manufacturing processes including injection molding, die casting, extrusion, stamping, machining, sheet metal, adhesives, and secondary finishing processes.
• Advanced understanding of GD&T, tolerance stack up, dimensional inspection, and production drawing requirements.
• Experience designing mechanisms and electromechanical assemblies for high volume production.
• Significant experience integrating PCBAs, sensors, motors, batteries, wiring, and other electronic components into mechanical systems.
• Strong hands on prototyping capability and the ability to design useful experiments and test fixtures.
• Experience defining and executing product reliability and accelerated life testing.
• Demonstrated success performing root cause analysis on difficult mechanical or manufacturing failures.
• Experience driving DFM/DFA and tooling development directly with suppliers.
• Direct experience supporting engineering builds and mass production ramps at overseas factories.
• Ability to make strong technical recommendations under schedule, cost, and information constraints.
• Ability to communicate complex technical problems clearly to engineers, designers, suppliers, and senior leadership.

About the Company

Our client is an established consumer products company that still operates with the energy of a startup. The team values ingenuity, precise communication, fast iteration, and scrappiness, and only builds products its own people want to use every day.

Great benefits, competitive compensation, and generous employee product discounts.