Position Title: Principal Mechanical Engineer

Find out more about the daily tasks, overall responsibilities, and required experience for this opportunity by scrolling down now. Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Principal Mechanical Engineer Opportunity. Job Description: The Principal 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. Job Responsibilities: 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. Evaluate field input from Service and Marketing regarding product performance. 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. Clear verbal and written communication skills. Understand, follow and support internal Quality System policies, procedures and work instructions including but not limited to applicable external regulations (21 Code of Federal Regulations Part 820 Quality System Regulations and applicable International Standards). Job Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering; and 8-12 years of design experience with emphasis on product design. Demonstrated experience leading technical development projects and mentoring engineering personnel, and effectively communicating with senior management. Fluency with CAD software, preferably Solidworks. Ability to apply engineering principles to define and solve problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to create and innovate solutions for design of mechanical parts and assemblies. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Minimum of 8 years of experience in design and analysis of carbon fiber structures. Familiarity with electromechanical design including motor selection, couplings, bearings, gearbox design, drivetrain integration, sensor integration, and electronics packaging. 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. Job Details: Job Type: Direct Hire Location: Union City, CA. Salary Range: $120K - $188K. About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates. Seniority level: Mid-Senior level Employment type: Full-time Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

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