Senior Mechanical Engineer

Re:Build Manufacturing • Rochester, NY

48d • Hybrid

About The Position

Re:Build AppliedLogix provides product OEMs with leading-edge embedded systems design services and product commercialization expertise. Our senior team of electronics, software, and mechanical engineers are fluent in a broad range of applications including fuel cell control and battery management systems, precision agriculture, medical devices, aerospace / drone, automotive and transportation components, and imaging systems with machine vision and AI processing integration. The Re:Build AppliedLogix Team provides design expertise for all facets of modern digital product development - with custom analog and digital embedded electronics; VHDL and Verilog targeting FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs and RFSoCs; embedded software on bare-metal, RTOS or Linux; full-stack application development (Linux and Windows). Our mechanical design capabilities include the packaging of embedded systems, tooling design, and manufacturing process development. We empower our staff to take on as much responsibility as they choose while offering a helping hand and experience-based coaching and the support of a highly competent team. Our goal is to enable each employee to achieve their fullest potential for both personal and professional growth. We are a member of the Re:Build Manufacturing family of industrial businesses combining cutting-edge, enabling technologies, operational superiority, and strategic M&A to build America’s next generation industrial company. Re:Build leverages its deep expertise in operations management and technology to supercharge performance of its subsidiaries by implementing core technologies across industrial platforms in diversified growth markets. We seek to revitalize the U.S. manufacturing base over the coming years and decades, creating substantial opportunities for our employees and the communities where we operate. Re:Build AppliedLogix is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our team, supporting clients in a variety of domains including the electrification, energy, and mobility industries. As a Senior Mechanical Engineer at AppliedLogix, you will carry out clean-sheet designs for various client applications. Your typical activities will include requirements collection, conceptual brainstorming, design modeling and detailing using SolidWorks, prototyping and verification. For those Mechanical Engineer’s with Thermal and FEA modeling skills, you will be challenged with a broad spectrum of problems that require analytical solutions. This is an on-site / hybrid opportunity based at the Re:Build AppliedLogix development center in Rochester, NY.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering.
• A minimum of 10 years experience in a design engineering role.
• Self-motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for customer success.
• Strong communications and interpersonal skills with both our internal team and direct client collaboration.
• Interested in a wide diversity of projects with a demonstrated ability to contribute to multiple projects concurrently.
• Ability to apply technical experience and a research and development mindset to unfamiliar applications.
• Experience designing systems / solutions with electrical / thermal / environmental / user requirements.
• Solid understanding of the principles and application of DFM / DFA.
• Experienced user of CAD packages, SolidWorks preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 10% for customer or manufacturing-site collaboration as projects require

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience designing active and passive cooling solutions.
• Preferred experience sizing and designing busbars.
• Experience developing manufacturing tools and processes.
• Preferred experience using Mechanical Engineering analytical tools for FEA and Thermal Analysis such as SolidWorks Thermal / Flow / Simulation packages and/or ANSYS.
• Experience with the design or manufacturing of batteries, fuel cells, and/or electrolyzers is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Become a member of a highly respected, technically diverse team with a lean culture and a track-record of success through teamwork.
• Work directly with clients to elicit and document technical requirements.
• Design, simulate, manufacture, and test your mechanical solutions.
• Develop manufacturing tooling and process parameters to bring your designs to reality.
• Support the AppliedLogix Electronics Group with their challenging PCB packaging solutions.
• Create and carry out test plans the inform data driven decisions that guide design development.
• Document and transfer Mechanical work packages and project deliverables to the client.

Benefits

• Every employee of Re:Build will share ownership in the company and will share in the financial rewards of the success we achieve together, at all levels of the company!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior