Mechanical Design Engineer

The role

This person will design, model, fabricate, and validate mechanical components for wireless optical communication terminals. They will solve thermo-mechanical system and integrated circuit packaging challenges and drive reliability testing for outdoor equipment.

What you will do

• Deliver the mechanical foundation for wireless optical communication technology.
• Solve thermo-mechanical system and integrated circuit packaging challenges.
• Drive reliability and quality testing for Telcordia outdoor equipment including thermal, shock and vibration.
• Provide input to the manufacturing team and partners to ramp up to production quantities.

Required qualifications

• BS degree in Mechanical Engineering, with 4+ years of relevant work experience or a degree in Engineering with relevant 8+ years of experience
• 3+ years of experience in one of the mainstream 3D mechanical engineering CAD/Simulation software programs (CREO, NX, etc) with proficiency in Solidworks or equivalent
• 3+ years experience in 3D mechanical engineering design & drawings
• 1+ years experience with GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing)
• 1+ years experience in finite-element analysis to evaluate thermally-induced stresses and structural modes
• 1+ years experience documenting hardware specifications
• Proficiency in BOM management and document control
• Self driven analytical problem solver
• Strong written and verbal presentation skills
• Extreme attention to detail
• Humility and eagerness to learn

Nice to have

• Masters in Mechanical Engineering or Physics, with 6+ years of relevant experience
• Hands-on practical experience with designing agile, light-weight, compact, and high-accuracy pointing mechanism with consideration for DFM
• Background with MES and Arena or Agile PLM; Tooling and processes for volume production of hardware
• Experience working with contract manufacturers
• Familiarity with reliability and test engineering, vibe testing protocols, waterproof testing protocols, various types of seals
• Proficiency with injection molding plastics and/or die-cast metals
• Designed or integrated various types of sensors and actuators
• Proficiency with maker skills, CNC, mill, lathe, soldering, opto-mechanical integration
• Experience with advanced thermal management systems e.g., metamaterials, thermo-electric, and phase change materials
• Knowledge of packaging of photonic integrated circuits (PICs)

Benefits

• bonus
• equity
• benefits

About the company

Taara is on a mission to connect billions of people lacking abundant and affordable internet by pioneering the way they use light to deliver connectivity. It was born at X, Google's Moonshot Factory.