Senior Mechanical Engineer

About the role

What You’ll Do • Develop a strong system-level understanding of the Stride product, including the mechanical system and its interactions with controls, electrical hardware, manufacturing, installation, and service. • Own complex mechanical projects or major areas of the product from problem definition through design, analysis, prototyping, validation, documentation, release, and production support. • Lead investigations into reliability and performance issues using structured root-cause analysis, testing, field data, and sound engineering judgment. • Identify recurring problems and develop robust solutions that address underlying causes rather than individual symptoms. • Evaluate how proposed changes affect the broader product, including reliability, safety, cost, manufacturability, installation, serviceability, and compatibility with existing systems. • Support the adaptation of the Stride platform for new customers, applications, environments, and market segments while managing product complexity. • Provide technical direction for mechanical projects or subsystem-level work involving other engineers and cross-functional partners. • Create and maintain high-quality engineering documentation, including requirements, calculations, drawings, bills of material, test plans, test reports, design reviews, and engineering change orders. • Work closely with manufacturing, sourcing, quality, controls, electrical engineering, installation, service, and product management. • Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and recommendations clearly to both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders. • Review the work of other engineers and help strengthen the team’s technical practices, product knowledge, and documentation quality. • Mentor less-experienced engineers and contribute to a collaborative and accountable engineering culture. What We’re Looking For • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related engineering discipline. • 5+ years of experience • Considerable experience designing, developing, and supporting complex mechanical or electromechanical products. • Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals, including mechanisms, structural design, materials, tolerancing, manufacturing processes, and component selection. • Demonstrated ability to independently investigate ambiguous technical problems and bring them to a documented, production-ready resolution. • Experience improving the reliability of an existing product through root-cause analysis, testing, and design changes. • Ability to understand system-level behavior and recognize how a change in one area may affect the rest of the product. • Sound engineering judgment and the ability to make practical tradeoffs among technical performance, risk, cost, schedule, and product complexity. • Experience taking designs through release and change-control processes, including drawings, bills of material, design reviews, validation, and engineering changes. • Willingness to take ownership of both highly technical work and the detailed documentation required to implement it successfully. • Ability to work autonomously while building alignment within a multidisciplinary team. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with industrial automation, material-handling equipment, robotics, conveyors, or other complex machinery. • Experience supporting products deployed in customer or production environments. • Familiarity with reliability engineering methods, failure analysis, risk assessment, and design verification. • Experience designing for manufacturing, assembly, installation, maintenance, and field service. • Experience with SolidWorks, PDM or PLM systems, and formal engineering change-control processes. • Experience mentoring engineers or improving team processes, tools, or technical standards. You May Be a Strong Fit If You • Prefer improving and evolving a real, fielded product over working exclusively on new concepts. • Naturally look beyond the immediate design problem to understand its effect on the full system. • Enjoy finding patterns across field issues and turning them into durable product improvements. • Can move comfortably between system-level technical discussions and detailed design or documentation work. • Are willing to question existing approaches while respecting the knowledge embedded in an established product. • Take satisfaction in closing the loop: confirming that a design works, documenting it correctly, and ensuring that it can be built and supported. • Influence decisions through technical credibility, clear reasoning, collaboration, and consistent follow-through.