Senior Mechanical Engineer

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, driving validation processes, 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.)

Requirements:

• 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