Principal Mechanical Engineer / Systems Engineer

HaloBraid•Cambridge, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Halo is a technology company building the future of haircare for all textures. We create category-defining products built for the complexities others overlook. We're building HaloBraid, the world's first braid-assist device. It helps stylists finish braids five times faster, flawlessly and gently. This is one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics, applied to a $270B salon services industry, and integrating computer vision, compliant fiber manipulation, and novel mechanisms. Billions of hours are spent braiding hair each year; HaloBraid gives that time back. We're moving from R&D into deployment with salons, and we're backed by leading investors.

Requirements

10+ years, or equivalent depth, in electromechanical product development
Strong mechanical architecture and product-design judgment: you can see the whole system and its tradeoffs.
A track record of delivering designs that made it through pilot or production.
An ability to review CAD and identify design, assembly, and serviceability issues.
A strong experiment / test / decision-making framework
Fluency with control drawings, tolerances, assemblies, and manufacturability.
Taken a product or a major subsystem from prototype toward production.
A desire to mentor other engineers without adding bureaucracy

Nice To Haves

BOM ownership
Supplier searches with technical and cost recommendations: CM / supplier interface experience.
Product roadmap input
Production-transfer experience.
People-management experience.
Robotics or mechatronics experience.
Production embedded / electrical interface awareness.

Responsibilities

Understand the full HaloBraid machine and its architecture: identify design, tolerance, assembly, serviceability, and dependency issues, and drive them to resolution.
Personally deliver IC engineering: own a subassembly from 3D CAD through pilot and toward production-ready parts.
Review design work across the team to reduce complexity and raise design standards.
Build strong test/experiment/decision frameworks
Apply DFM/DFA judgment and prepare for pilot builds, supplier engagement, and contract-manufacturer handoff.
Mentor engineers, set practical best practices and standards, and strengthen our engineering culture without becoming process-heavy.
Collaborate with electrical, industrial design, manufacturing, and suppliers.