Staff Mechanical Engineer, Development
About The Position
At Bloom Energy, our vision for a world powered by clean, reliable, and affordable energy is more than just a dream—we’re making it reality. For over two decades, we’ve been at the forefront of the global energy transition, pioneering solutions that empower critical industries to thrive in a rapidly digitizing, energy-intensive world. From revolutionizing power for AI-driven data centers to ensuring resilience for hospitals, electric grids, manufacturing facilities, and utilities, our solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and solid oxide electrolyzer (SOEC) technologies are redefining what’s possible by delivering energy abundance for all. With more than 30,000 fuel cell modules deployed worldwide, we are the trusted partner for Fortune 100 companies and innovators alike. Our cutting-edge solutions enable unparalleled “time-to-power” capabilities, reliability, and sustainability, ensuring our customers remain ahead in a world where soaring energy demand and intensifying energy scarcity are rapidly becoming the new norm. At Bloom, we thrive on collaboration, bold thinking, and relentless innovation. We believe that, together, we can create a brighter, more sustainable future while tackling the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. We are looking for a Staff Engineer, Development to join our team in one of today’s most exciting technologies. This role will be based in San Jose, CA. This is a fully on-site, in office role 5 days a week.
Requirements
- Solid understanding of engineering principles
- Proven success working on cross-functional projects
- Excellent Solidworks CAD & drafting knowledge
- Experience with revision control with a CAD vault tool
- Experience with ECN process (Agile)
- Excellent communication skills
- Highly motivated and a self-starter
- Ability to travel overseas (30-50%)
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
- CAD Modeling experience (Solidworks)
Responsibilities
- Responsible for sustaining product development for reliability improvement, design for manufacturing, and cost reduction
- Responsible for interfacing with quality groups to identify reliability issues in the field, driving root cause, and designing/implementing changes to mitigate these failures.
- Responsible for meeting with manufacturing and supporting design changes to improve manufacturability and driving testing/implementation.
- Responsible for designing/validating/implementing changes to reduce product cost
- Lead technical design transfer to BE Contract Manufacturers and suppliers while meeting established milestones for production release
- Ability to drive process development and improvement to manufacturability and incorporate lessons learned
- Ability to address capacity and design for manufacturing issues with suppliers and engineers
- Utilize engineering knowledge to provide solutions to challenging design and manufacturing problems to suppliers and engineering
- Manage top level assemblies in a PDM system environment and communicate to supplier
- Control drawing and model releases through an ECN process
- Create and manage Solidworks CAD models, drawings and assemblies
- Communicates effectively with cross functional teams and within group
Benefits
- competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with a large employer contribution
- a 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match
- generous Mental Health Support services
- Legal services
- virtual Physical Therapy access
- Fertility & Family Forming benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
