Senior Mechanical Engineer

The role

This person will own and build core mechanical systems including pumps, valves, pressure vessels, and fluid-handling assemblies. They will take these systems from early concepts to production at scale.

What you will do

• Own major mechanical subsystems from concept through production ramp and launch
• Design, prototype, and validate pumps, valves, pressure vessels, and related mechanical components
• Drive system-level tradeoffs across performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost
• Build and run test plans to validate performance across real-world environments and edge cases
• Work closely with electrical, firmware, industrial design, and manufacturing
• Help design and improve manufacturing processes and production equipment
• Iterate fast to identify problems, propose solutions, and implement changes
• Support supplier selection, part qualification, and production ramp
• Mentor junior engineers

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years of experience designing and shipping mechanical or electromechanical hardware
• Strong CAD and FEA skills applied to real, production-intent designs
• Experience taking products from prototype to manufacturing
• Comfort working in ambiguity and making tradeoffs with incomplete information
• Bias toward action, ownership, and practical engineering solutions
• Hands on work on development hardware
• Long periods of standing, crouching, walking
• Lifting up to 50 lbs

Nice to have

• Experience with consumer hardware or high-volume manufacturing
• Background in pumps, valves, pressure systems, or fluid mechanics
• Exposure to automation, manufacturing process development, or production equipment
• Startup or early-stage company experience

Benefits

• Work on high-impact problems with global relevance
• Help scale breakthrough technology in water security and climate resilience
• Early ownership in a high growth, engineering led startup
• Join a tight knit, mission driven team in a fast-paced environment
• Build long term career equity as we grow

About the company

Vital Lyfe is a tech company redefining water autonomy through innovation, creating a new category of personal water making technology built to scale where infrastructure can’t.