Senior Mechanical Engineer

Aescape is a physical AI and robotics company developing intelligent robotic bodywork systems for recovery and wellness. The Senior Mechanical Engineer will own critical mechanical subsystems from concept through production, including design, analysis, prototyping, validation, manufacturing transfer, and field support. The role involves close collaboration with Electrical, Firmware, Controls, Product, Operations, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.

Responsibilities:

• Own the design of mechanical subsystems from concept through production release. Balance subsystem-level requirements against system-level constraints, and resolve complex mechanical design issues
• Analyze and test your designs using FEA, kinematics, dynamics, and tolerance analysis. Build and test your own prototypes, and drive design decisions from test data and physics
• Design for manufacturability, reliability, and cost. Select components and processes with an understanding of what they cost at volume, and contribute to cost-down efforts across the product
• Work with our supply chain team, contract manufacturer, and suppliers to develop fixtures and assembly processes, support builds through NPI, and produce the documentation for production transfer: CAD, drawings, BOMs, and specifications
• Partner with Electrical, Firmware, Controls, Product, and Operations through the development process, translating requirements into mechanical designs
• Provide mechanical engineering support for manufacturing and field issues, troubleshoot process and component problems, and drive quality, manufacturing, and material defects to root cause
• Generate new concepts, write invention disclosures, and build rapid prototypes
• As needed for supplier and CM engagements, including international travel

Requirements:

• For this role, we are open to candidates who can work fully on-site from our NYC office OR those based in the greater Boston area, with the ability to travel to our NYC office regularly
• BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience, with 5+ years of hands-on mechanical design engineering experience on large-scale electromechanical devices
• A track record of owning mechanical subsystems through the full product development lifecycle: design, implementation, debugging, verification, qualification, and transfer to manufacturing
• Strong SolidWorks skills, with solid statics, dynamics, kinematics, strength of materials, stress analysis (FEA), and tolerance analysis. You have the engineering intuition to know where a design is likely to fail and the rigor to prove it quantitatively
• Demonstrated knowledge of component manufacturing processes including injection molding, sheet metal, weldments, CNC machining, surface finishes, and painting or powder coating, with a strong understanding of component selection criteria and design for reliability and manufacturability
• You prototype, instrument, characterize, and test your own work, and you are comfortable in the lab and on the factory floor
• Comfortable working with Electrical, Firmware, and Controls engineers, with an understanding of mechanical design as part of a larger electromechanical system
• Strong written and verbal skills. You explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical partners and communicate effectively with geographically distributed teams and suppliers
• You make good calls on tradeoffs with limited data, know when to test and when to decide, and avoid analysis paralysis
• High standards for how the machine looks, sounds, and feels
• A driven self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and able to pivot as priorities shift in a fast-moving startup; willing to take on work outside your core role when required
• High-volume consumer electronics product development experience; familiarity with design of experiments and statistical methods