Senior Mechatronics Engineer – Lead Hardware & Prototyping

Unlimit Ventures, LLC; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Unlimit Ventures, LLC seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to lead the development of innovative mechatronic systems. You will design and bring to practice advanced solutions, balancing engineering depth with entrepreneurial business needs.

This contract-to-hire role offers exposure to a range of new ventures and products the team will launch with pride. The position emphasizes leadership, rapid prototyping, and collaboration across engineering disciplines to deliver robust, manufacturable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of applied experience in mechanical/mechatronic system development.
• Rapid prototyping and iterative product development experience.
• Experience with mechanical structures (weldments, sheet metal, extrusions, CNC) for industrial products.
• Experience developing actuated kinematic systems from concept to prototype.
• Experience with FEA/CFD/surfacing.
• Ability to perform tolerance analysis to ensure assembly performance.
• Hands-on fabrication, assembly and maintenance of complex mechanical systems.
• Knowledge of Geometric Tolerancing ASME Y14.5, DFM/DFA, coatings & finishing standards.
• Experience with a range of manufacturing processes for low/high volume production.
• Ability to identify technical risks early and design for fault tolerance, reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead diverse technical teams in the development of mechatronic systems.
• Generate novel concepts for mechatronic system architectures.
• Execute component selection including sensors, actuators, controllers and relevant parts.
• Architect structures and mechanisms for varying loads and duty cycles.
• Develop systems meeting use-case, technical, operational, manufacturing, cost and schedule needs.
• Prepare budgets, cost estimations and margin of safety analyses.
• Perform thermal and structural analyses to enable rapid virtual prototyping.
• Package mechanical components efficiently with good design.
• Develop test plans and perform hardware integration, testing, debugging and validation.
• Compile data, perform trade studies and present findings.
• Create part and assembly drawings with supporting calculations.
• Estimate labor and material costs for mechanical systems budgets.

Skills

Project management

Mentoring

Customer interfacing

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Python

C++

C

FEA

CFD

CAD tools

Job description

Unlimit Ventures, LLC seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to lead the development of innovative mechatronic systems. You will design and bring to practice advanced solutions, balancing engineering depth with entrepreneurial business needs.

This contract-to-hire role offers exposure to a range of new ventures and products the team will launch with pride. The position emphasizes leadership, rapid prototyping, and collaboration across engineering disciplines to deliver robust, manufacturable