Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Juul Labs's mission is to transition the world’s billion adult smokers away from combustible cigarettes. The Senior Mechanical Engineer, R&D will be responsible for designing innovative products and improvements, driving validation of concepts, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet product requirements.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the overall design, analysis, documentation, and functional validation of mechanical components and assemblies through daily benchtop prototyping; balancing Industrial Design with mechanical constraints
- Experienced with embedded control systems and adept at deriving meaningful insights through data analytics to drive improvements in existing algorithms
- Root cause analysis and corrective action implementation as a result of build issues and reliability testing
- Takes initiative and ownership of high level work
- Negotiates and drives alignment with product architects, managers, and other key stakeholders across multiple disciplines
- Design, implement, and drive to completion complex system DoEs spanning several engineering disciplines including EE, ME, FW, and SW
- Domestic and internation travel required to support manufacturing builds 20-30%, travel percentages may vary based on business needs
- Conduct and manage rapid feasibility studies to design for mechanical robustness, schedule, and cost
- Facilitate design reviews
- Work directly with part suppliers on DFM, tooling kick-off, tool bring-up, and tool/part qualification
- Work directly with our CM or prototyping partners in support of system assembly build activities
- Work with Quality and Manufacturing Engineering to define and implement validation testing plans and ensure all products meet reliability requirements
- Ensure successful development of mechanical tooling and production part qualification (i.e. first-article inspections, manufacturing process capabilities (Cp/Cpk), (GR&R), material certifications, etc.)
Skills
- 8+ years of relevant Mechanical Engineering experience in one or more of the following areas: product design, new product release, test engineering, manufacturing support
- Minimum 5 years experience working with overseas suppliers and CM partners, specifically designing and ramping high volume parts and assemblies
- Possess strong functional proficiency in Python for data acquisition, and sensor-log analysis
- Ability to comfortably navigate and modify existing firmware branches to enable early-stage prototype functionality
- Experience in designing consumer oriented products using a broad range of processes and materials, with an emphasis on cosmetic plastic molding and metal parts (sheet metal, CNC, extrusion, etc.)
- Experience with the development and integration of electro-mechanical components, such as flex circuits, batteries, and antennae
- Expertise in one (or more of) the areas of: Statistical Analysis, Design of Experiments, FEA, CFD, Thermal Design, DFMEA, DFA, etc
- An ability to communicate well with cross-functional team members, efficiently collaborate to achieve project goals, and contribute to the Juul engineering team
- Ability to multi-task as well as focus on detailed problems, and ability to resolve problems
- Experienced in developing and testing both software applications and mechanical systems, ensuring they work together
- BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- Preferred experience with medical devices or other regulated products
- Preferred expertise in 3D MCAD, Solidworks
Benefits
- A place to grow your career. We’ll help you set big goals - and exceed them
- People. Work with talented, committed and supportive teammates
- Equity and performance bonuses. Every employee is a stakeholder in our success
- Cell phone subsidy, commuter benefits and discounts on JUUL products
- Excellent medical, dental and vision, disability, and life insurance, plus family support, wellness, legal, and employee assistance program benefits
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- Plus biannual discretionary performance bonuses
Company Overview
Juul Labs is a thriving team of scientists, engineers, designers and professionals who are committed to offering adult smokers alternatives to combustible cigarettes, while combating underage use of our products. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.juul.com.