Specter
Mechanical Engineer
San Francisco. Posted 13 months ago
The role
A hands-on mechanical engineer will design products to expand the product portfolio. This individual will own subsystem design and development from concept to production and collaborate with electrical, manufacturing, supply chain, and test teams.
What you will do
- Electrical packaging of PCBAs including enclosures, sealing, connectors, wire harness, and thermal interfaces
- Hands on prototype building to accelerate product development
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience designing, testing, and fielding high volume products
- Demonstrated experience designing tightly integrated products that live in harsh, outdoor environments (IP67, MILSTD810G/H or higher)
- Experience in doing tolerance analysis for prototyping and mass production
- Hands on experience with tests (shock, vibe, thermal, EMC)
- Experience designing for different manufacturing methods including machining, injection molding, casting, and sheet metal parts
- Exceptional organization and communication skills (both written and oral)
- Experience or exposure to EE and RF systems and packaging of pcba components and antenna elements
- Proficient with Solidworks or equivalent
- Proficient with Ansys Thermal and Structural analysis tools
- Experience in ECO, BOM and deviation process management
- Experience in using gd&t to draft drawings for manufacturing
Nice to have
- Experience with designing thermal solutions for air and liquid cooling
- Experience with FMEA (Ansys or similar)
- Solidworks preferred
- Familiarity with ECAD integration
About the company
Specter's mission is to help automate the physical world. They build video sensors with state-of-the-art AI agents.