Position Summary
UEC Advanced Electronics is seeking a hands-on Mechanical Design Engineer to develop ruggedized battery systems, power electronics assemblies, and related electromechanical products for demanding military, aerospace, industrial, and commercial applications.
This engineer will own mechanical design activities from concept through prototype, validation, design release, and transition to production. The role combines detailed mechanical design with engineering analysis, prototype development, hands-on testing, supplier interaction, and close collaboration with electrical, software, systems, manufacturing, and quality engineering.
The ideal candidate is comfortable moving between CAD and the hardware itself—developing a design, analyzing it, building it, testing it, identifying problems, and improving the design until it is ready for production.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop mechanical concepts and detailed designs for battery components, modules, pack-level systems, electronic enclosures, power electronics assemblies, fixtures, and related electromechanical hardware.
- Create and maintain production-quality 3D CAD models, assemblies, and detailed engineering drawings using SolidWorks.
- Apply appropriate GD&T, tolerance analysis, material selection, fastener design, sealing methods, thermal interfaces, and mechanical design principles to ensure robust and manufacturable designs.
- Design components and assemblies utilizing a range of manufacturing processes, including:
- CNC-machined metal and plastic components
- Sheet-metal fabrication
- Injection-molded plastic components
- Additive-manufactured / 3D-printed components
- Extrusions and fabricated assemblies
- Seals, gaskets, adhesives, fasteners, and other mechanical joining methods
- Perform engineering calculations and thermal and structural analysis, including FEA where appropriate, to evaluate design alternatives and predict mechanical and thermal performance.
- Design for demanding environmental conditions including shock, vibration, temperature extremes, ingress protection, mechanical loading, and transportation/handling environments.
- Support development and qualification testing in accordance with applicable customer requirements, internal specifications, and military or industry standards.
- Develop prototype hardware and take an active role in prototype assembly, instrumentation, testing, troubleshooting, teardown, and design iteration.
- Translate product and system requirements into mechanical design requirements and ensure that the design can be objectively verified and validated.
- Participate in and contribute to formal and informal design reviews, clearly communicating design decisions, tradeoffs, risks, analysis results, and test findings.
- Develop and maintain mechanical portions of DFMEAs and participate in engineering risk identification and mitigation.
- Work directly with manufacturing engineering and production personnel to ensure designs are manufacturable, repeatable, cost-effective, and practical to assemble and test.
- Apply Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and Design for Test (DFT) principles throughout product development.
- Work directly with suppliers on component design, manufacturability, material selection, tooling, tolerances, technical questions, prototype parts, and production readiness.
- Create, release, and maintain bills of material, drawings, specifications, and other engineering documentation.
- Initiate and implement Engineering Change Orders (ECOs/COs) to release new designs and maintain configuration control of existing products.
- Support production during pilot and early production builds, rapidly resolving mechanical design, fit, assembly, supplier, and manufacturing issues.
- Participate in failure investigation and root-cause analysis and implement technically sound corrective actions when hardware does not perform as intended.
- Collaborate closely with electrical, battery, software, systems, manufacturing, quality, supply-chain, and program-management personnel throughout the product-development lifecycle.
