Mechanical Engineer - Consumer Product

Deako•Seattle, WA

3d•$100,000 - $140,000

About The Position

Deako is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to develop new products for its intelligent home platform. The role owns mechanical design, development, validation, and testing of new products from concept through production. The engineer collaborates with Product, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Compliance teams; works with manufacturing teams on quality metrics and supplier qualification; and performs hands-on fabrication, prototyping, and new-product-introduction activities, including work at factories in East Asia and Mexico.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, with a strong product-development focus.
At least 3 years of mechanical design experience in consumer electronics.
Hands-on experience with rapid prototyping and fabrication of parts and assemblies.
Injection molding design experience.
Stamped metal design experience.
Experience with the full product development process from concept to manufacturing.
CAD design experience in OnShape or equivalent, and a working understanding of version control.
Experience with metrology and application of measurement systems.
Experience designing consumer electronics for mass production.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Product, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Compliance teams to ensure mechanical designs meet internal and external customer requirements.
Establish or maintain quality metrics and critical-to-quality characteristics, and work with the manufacturing team to select qualified suppliers.
Build, modify, and fabricate parts and assemblies in the workshop.
Perform new product introduction (NPI) activities, including bringing up tools at factories in East Asia and Mexico.
Learn and apply safety requirements from UL, ETL, and other regulatory agencies.
Perform on-site NPI activities, including first article inspection (FAI) and tool bring-up at factories.
Perform light maintenance of rapid-prototyping and fabrication tools.
Own mechanical design, development, validation, and testing of new products from concept through production.