Senior Mechanical Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Develop a strong system-level understanding of the Stride product, including the mechanical system and its interactions with controls, electrical hardware, manufacturing, installation, and service.
• Own complex mechanical projects or major areas of the product from problem definition through design, analysis, prototyping, validation, documentation, release, and production support.
• Lead investigations into reliability and performance issues using structured root-cause analysis, testing, field data, and sound engineering judgment.
• Identify recurring problems and develop robust solutions that address underlying causes rather than individual symptoms.
• Evaluate how proposed changes affect the broader product, including reliability, safety, cost, manufacturability, installation, serviceability, and compatibility with existing systems.
• Support the adaptation of the Stride platform for new customers, applications, environments, and market segments while managing product complexity.
• Provide technical direction for mechanical projects or subsystem-level work involving other engineers and cross-functional partners.
• Create and maintain high-quality engineering documentation, including requirements, calculations, drawings, bills of material, test plans, test reports, design reviews, and engineering change orders.
• Work closely with manufacturing, sourcing, quality, controls, electrical engineering, installation, service, and product management.
• Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and recommendations clearly to both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Review the work of other engineers and help strengthen the team’s technical practices, product knowledge, and documentation quality.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and contribute to a collaborative and accountable engineering culture.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience
• Considerable experience designing, developing, and supporting complex mechanical or electromechanical products.
• Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals, including mechanisms, structural design, materials, tolerancing, manufacturing processes, and component selection.
• Demonstrated ability to independently investigate ambiguous technical problems and bring them to a documented, production-ready resolution.
• Experience improving the reliability of an existing product through root-cause analysis, testing, and design changes.
• Ability to understand system-level behavior and recognize how a change in one area may affect the rest of the product.
• Sound engineering judgment and the ability to make practical tradeoffs among technical performance, risk, cost, schedule, and product complexity.
• Experience taking designs through release and change-control processes, including drawings, bills of material, design reviews, validation, and engineering changes.
• Willingness to take ownership of both highly technical work and the detailed documentation required to implement it successfully.
• Ability to work autonomously while building alignment within a multidisciplinary team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with industrial automation, material-handling equipment, robotics, conveyors, or other complex machinery.
• Experience supporting products deployed in customer or production environments.
• Familiarity with reliability engineering methods, failure analysis, risk assessment, and design verification.
• Experience designing for manufacturing, assembly, installation, maintenance, and field service.
• Experience with SolidWorks, PDM or PLM systems, and formal engineering change-control processes.
• Experience mentoring engineers or improving team processes, tools, or technical standards.

You May Be a Strong Fit If You

• Prefer improving and evolving a real, fielded product over working exclusively on new concepts.
• Naturally look beyond the immediate design problem to understand its effect on the full system.
• Enjoy finding patterns across field issues and turning them into durable product improvements.
• Can move comfortably between system-level technical discussions and detailed design or documentation work.
• Are willing to question existing approaches while respecting the knowledge embedded in an established product.
• Take satisfaction in closing the loop: confirming that a design works, documenting it correctly, and ensuring that it can be built and supported.
• Influence decisions through technical credibility, clear reasoning, collaboration, and consistent follow-through.