Mechanical Design and Test Engineer
About The Position
As a Mechanical Design Engineer at Swift, you'll help create equipment to make affordable, high-efficiency perovskite photovoltaics. Your main responsibility will be working with the equipment engineering team to design, procure, and install parts and assemblies for thin-film deposition and processing equipment. Your designs will help Swift improve process performance and prepare for manufacturing scale-up. On a typical day, you might design components for vacuum chambers and other process equipment, make drawings to send to suppliers to source high-quality parts quickly and cost-effectively, perform a thermal and mechanical analysis of a new assembly, work with technicians to install and troubleshoot an assembly, and contribute to developing Swift's engineering practices and documentation standards. This role is expected to interact with process engineers and technologists to address their challenges by designing and procuring mechanical parts. Part of the job is developing and executing test plans and optimizing performance of electro-mechanical devices designed in house and adapting commercial equipment to perovskite cells production processes. As an early hire, you'll help craft Swift's culture. In this role you'll be interacting with every part of the company, which will naturally lead to many opportunities to grow your own skills and responsibilities. We encourage you to take full advantage of these opportunities.
Requirements
- Have a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering or related discipline.
- Have used 3D CAD software to design a variety of parts made by machining, 3D printing, sheet metal processes, and/or welding (SolidWorks preferred).
- Enjoy working with suppliers to get consistent quality parts, testing and troubleshooting systems that you and the team have designed.
- Have a desire to learn standards and best practices to help improve Swift's engineering processes.
Nice To Haves
- 3+ years of industrial engineering experience working with vacuum equipment or other materials processing equipment in photovoltaics, semiconductors, batteries, or a similar industry.
- Knowledge of proper dimensioning and tolerance analysis including ASME Y14.5M.
- Experience with design for manufacturability, assembly and serviceability.
- Past projects using computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis for flow, thermal, and structural simulations (using ANSYS or similar).
- Experience working with a formal document control system and release process for parts and drawings.
Responsibilities
- design components for vacuum chambers and other process equipment
- make drawings to send to suppliers to source high-quality parts quickly and cost-effectively
- perform a thermal and mechanical analysis of a new assembly
- work with technicians to install and troubleshoot an assembly
- contribute to developing Swift's engineering practices and documentation standards
- developing and executing test plans and optimizing performance of electro-mechanical devices designed in house and adapting commercial equipment to perovskite cells production processes
Benefits
- Have 100% of your monthly premiums for HMO / PPO group healthcare plan options and 75% of your dental and vision insurance premiums covered by us.
- Employees also benefit from 401(k) matching, clean commuter benefits, and meaningful equity.
- We'll support you in attending conferences and taking online courses, as long as you share your new insights with the team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
