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Location

Hayward, CA | United States

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Job description

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Engineer
Job Location: Union City, CA
Salary Range: $90,000-$160,000/yr based on experience
Benefits: PTO, Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k

Top Reasons to Work with Us

We are the leader in the markets for specialty surgery and patient positioning. The companys portfolio includes specialty surgical tables for procedure-specific approaches that improve patient outcomes in spine and orthopedic surgeries along with disposable and reusable surgical patient care products.

What You Will Be Doing

The Senior Mechanical Engineer designs operating room equipment including patient support structures, electromechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic actuators, and accessories. Contributes to product innovation via out of box thinking and drive product concepts to production. Maintains current knowledge of competitive technologies including medical, technical, manufacturing, and materials developments as related to company products. Maintains complete, accurate, and timely design history documentation, including testing methods.

- Design metal, plastic, and carbon composite patient support structures for use in operating rooms meeting requirements for stiffness, strength, stability, reliability and cost.
- Design user actuated mechanisms and electro-mechanical drive trains to articulate these structures to optimize patient positioning, surgical access, and applied traction.
- Work independently or within cross functional development teams to design, develop, and test products that meet system specifications.
- Participate with New Product Introduction (NPI) to assure product designs are optimized for manufacturing.
- Maintain a continuing liaison relationship with Manufacturing and Marketing functions to meet and improve product needs.
- Continually contribute to product improvement and cost reduction.
- Participate in vendor selection, sustaining engineering, QC inspection, and material review board activities.
- Assist other engineers and designers with technical input and lead projects as necessary.

What You Need for this Position

Must Have Skills:
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- 5- 8 years of design experience with emphasis on product design.
- Fluency with CAD software, preferably Solidworks.
- Ability to create and innovate solutions for design of mechanical parts and assemblies.
- Ability to apply engineering principles to define and solve problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Familiarity with electromechanical design including motor selection, couplings, bearings, gearbox design, drivetrain integration, sensor integration, and electronics
- Familiarity with structure design via hand calculations and using software.
- Familiarity with mechanism design including cams, linkages, actuators, mechanical attachments, and jigs and fixtures
- Familiarity with design of mechanical user interfaces such as adjustment devices and touch points.

Preferred Skills:
- Medical Device/Medical Equipment Manufacturing background

So, if you are a Senior Mechanical Engineer with experience, please apply today!

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred Skills

Mechanical Engineering

CAD

SolidWorks

Product Design

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Salary

$90k - $160k