Senior Mechanical Engineer

Join BorgWarner Portland (Cascadia Motion brand) as a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer II, driving clean-sheet mechanical design programs from concept through production. As a proven professional, you will own the full mechanical design - from top-level system architecture to detailed component and complex tooled part design. You will be directly responsible for creating and managing large, detailed CAD models, with a focus on building robust geometry efficiently and quickly to support rapid iteration and design maturity.
The BorgWarner Portland team is a small, highly agile group specializing in the design and manufacture of hardware for electric vehicle propulsion & industrial power systems - including electric motors, power electronics (inverters), and transmissions. In contrast to the complex structures often found in large engineering organizations, we operate with lean, right-sized processes tailored to our customers’ needs - empowering engineers to make decisions quickly and keep projects moving efficiently. With design cycles typically around a year, our fast-moving environment fosters innovation, adaptability, and strong team engagement.
BorgWarner Portland has an extensive and international customer base, ranging from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to emerging technologies and startups.

Key responsibilities

•Own the mechanical design and release of new products from kick-off to production launch.

•Effectively organize and plan to meet project milestones, while demonstrating exceptional effort when swift action is required. When challenges arise, communicate clear recovery strategies to ensure a successful path forward.

•Blank-sheet mechanical design of electric vehicle propulsion systems (electric motors, power electronics (inverters) and transmissions)

•Create expert level 3D CAD models using SolidWorks

•Create 2D drafting sheets in SolidWorks applying GD&T to ensure design intent

•Conduct peer-level and executive-level design reviews

•Create and control bills of materials during the design phase to ensure the successful launch of your project.

What we’re looking for

Required Skills

•Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering

•Strong engineering foundation with the ability to work with limited information to quickly solve problems and meet project timelines

•Proficiency in 3D CAD with 8+ years on the job experience

•Proficiency in 2D Drafting with 8+ years on the job experience

•General understanding of GD&T per ASME Y14.5

•General understanding of design and release of sheet metal, machined, injection mold and cast metal parts

Preferred Skills

•Expert-level SolidWorks user with 10+ years’ experience and the ability to rapidly create complex parts

•Ability to develop blank sheet GD&T schemes for complex parts per ASME Y14.5

•10+ years’ experience in the design and release of sheet metal, machined, injection mold and cast metal parts

•Experience in the mechanical design related to power electronics, specifically motor drives and electric motors

•Experience in the mechanical design of gearing including the design and specification of gears and splines

•Ability to construct assembly level FEA simulations to analyse stress and strain in assembly components. Ansys Structural and SolidWorks Simulation preferred

•Ability to construct assembly level CFD simulations to analyse pressure drop, thermal characteristics and electronics cooling. Ansys Fluent and SolidWorks Flow Simulation preferd

𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀:
Change Management, Define Future State, Engineering Standards and Compliance, Perform Gap Analysis, Project Schedule Management

Salary Range:

$100,800 - $141,750

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