We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Workplace: On-site, 5 days per week
Location: Mountain View, CA
Salary: $120-135k
As a Senior ATE (Automated Test Equipment) Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for the full product development lifecycle of mechanical systems within our revolutionary home energy products. We are looking for people who are passionate about a more sustainable future and want to make that vision a reality. An ideal candidate is excited and ready to collaborate closely with a small, dedicated team. Engineers here are hands-on and involved in a wide range of facets of the product, from applying fundamental physical principles in design to working with high-volume production suppliers.
We were founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We’re a fast-growing, global company building the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.
Responsibilities
• Work back and forth with collaborators across the company to continuously refine and improve our understanding of how our products can create the greatest impact, get to market quickly, and operate reliably for our customers
• Brainstorm and evaluate new solutions, weigh pros and cons, and narrow down options
• Efficiently test ideas and designs: anything from back-of-the-envelope calculations to physical tests and multi-physics simulations
• Design high-performance, reliable, easy-to-manufacture parts and assemblies, employing a variety of high-volume manufacturing processes
• Create and review drawings and other part specifications
• Manage bills of materials, cost and mass roll-ups, vendors and engineering releases
• Define manufacturing processes and inspection methods
• Collaborate directly with part manufacturers to support prototypes and production
Required Qualifications
Mechanical Design
• Extensive experience in 3D Modeling software (e.g. Onshape, NX, Solidworks)
• Knowledge of how to make a PCBA Bed of Nails fixture.
• Detailed knowledge of 2D Drawing creation and GD&T
• Ability to analyze designs using Tolerance Analysis/Stackup, Statics/Load Path Analysis, Finite Element Analysis, Root Cause Analysis and Design Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
• Familiarity with electronic test equipment and basic electromechanical troubleshooting
• Experience with test fixtures, jigs, and various mechanical components for high cycle count.
• Experience with fine pitch assemblies and construction.
• Should be able to conduct strain gauge measurements and understand stress on PCBAs and incorporate proper design to avoid it.
• Experience with PCBA management such as Mechanical Control Outline generation
• Working knowledge of pneumatic cylinders and control methods
• Working knowledge of Thermal Management techniques
• Prototyping skills using 3D printing, machining, sheet metal bending, laser cutting, milling and general machine shop tools
• Manage suppliers for all the parts which are required for our station construction.
Manufacturing Support
• Experience communicating with component suppliers including Design for Manufacturing report review, First Article Inspection, and Part Production Approval Process
• Ability to generate Work Instructions for electromechanical assemblies
• Knowledge of Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
• Create preventive maintenance documentation.
• Extensive experience with Onsite Build Support at domestic and international contract manufacturing sites . Approximate 10-20% travel as and when required.
Communication
• Ability to generate detailed design documentation
• Drive a project from start to deployment involving other cross functional teams, vendors, technicians etc.
• Ability to collaborate with other engineers (electrical engineers, automated test engineers, etc..)
• Skilled at clear verbal and written communication including concise slide deck creation
• Ability to give kind and direct feedback and receive feedback with an open mind
Salary Range
• $120,000 - 135,000
• The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Skills Required
- Extensive experience with 3D modeling software such as Onshape, NX, or SolidWorks
- Knowledge of designing PCBA Bed of Nails fixtures
- Detailed knowledge of 2D drawing creation and GD&T
- Ability to perform tolerance analysis and stackup analysis
- Ability to perform statics and load path analysis
- Ability to perform finite element analysis
- Ability to perform root cause analysis
- Ability to perform Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
- Familiarity with electronic test equipment and basic electromechanical troubleshooting
- Experience designing test fixtures, jigs, and high-cycle mechanical components
- Experience with fine-pitch assemblies and construction
- Ability to conduct strain gauge measurements and manage PCBA stress considerations
- Experience generating Mechanical Control Outlines for PCBAs
- Working knowledge of pneumatic cylinders and control methods
- Working knowledge of thermal management techniques
- Prototyping skills using 3D printing, machining, sheet metal bending, laser cutting, milling, and machine shop tools
- Experience managing suppliers for station construction parts
- Experience communicating with component suppliers, including DFM report review, First Article Inspection, and PPAP
- Ability to generate work instructions for electromechanical assemblies
- Knowledge of Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
- Ability to create preventive maintenance documentation
- Extensive onsite build support experience at domestic and international contract manufacturing sites
- Ability to generate detailed design documentation
- Ability to drive projects from start to deployment with cross-functional teams, vendors, and technicians
- Ability to collaborate with electrical engineers and automated test engineers
- Clear verbal and written communication skills, including concise slide deck creation
- Ability to give and receive constructive feedback
What We Do
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company that provides innovative solutions for engineering, IT, and product development projects across the product life cycle. For decades, ALTEN Technology USA has been helping clients develop products that are changing the world, whether by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set new standards of care or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. The company provides support across industries including aerospace, defense, MedTech and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, energy and environment, rail, and more.
Why Work With Us
Potential clients in the industries we serve, Professionals in the Industries, and Potential employees within New Product Development, Engineering Services, Sustaining Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Embedded Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering and IT, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
