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For more than 80 years, HP has pioneered technologies that enable people and organizations to create, communicate, and achieve more. Our portfolio spans personal systems, industrial and consumer printing, digital manufacturing, and emerging technologies that help customers work, learn, and grow.\nWhy Print Matters\nPrinting remains one of HP's largest and most strategic businesses. HP Printing delivers solutions that power homes, small businesses, enterprises, and industrial manufacturing operations worldwide. From everyday document printing to packaging, commercial graphics, and digital manufacturing, HP's print technologies help customers transform ideas into physical products and experiences.\nInnovation in print relies on world-class engineering across mechanical design, materials, manufacturing, reliability, fluidics, electronics, and systems integration. In this role, the Mechanical Engineering Designer will focus on printhead design that is reliable and manufacturable that enables industry-leading print quality, performance, and customer experience.\nRole Overview\nThe Printhead Mechanical Engineering Designer is a technical contributor responsible for the design, development, and qualification of printhead components, assemblies, interfaces, and subsystems used in HP printing products and technologies.\nIn this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams including writing systems, ink and materials, fluidics, systems engineering, manufacturing, reliability, quality, and suppliers to develop innovative print solutions that meet print quality, reliability, cost, sustainability, and schedule objectives.\nYou will contribute throughout the printhead development lifecycle, from architecture and concept generation through detailed design, prototyping, validation, product launch, and sustaining engineering.\nWhat You Will Do\nDesign printhead components, assemblies, and interfaces, including printhead bodies, lids, fluid-delivery features, seals, vents, fluidic interconnects and latches. This includes leveraging previous designs into new concepts.\nCreate and maintain 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, specifications, tolerance analyses, and design documentation for printhead hardware.\nApply Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), Design for Reliability (DFR), and Design for Sustainability principles.\nCollaborate with writing systems, ink and materials, fluidics, electrical, manufacturing, quality, and reliability engineers to develop integrated printhead solutions.\nSupport printhead prototype builds, engineering evaluations, and design verification activities, including dimensional, environmental, shipping, drop, life, and fluid-delivery testing.\nConduct tolerance stack-up analyses, fit-and-function assessments, define mechanical, electrical, and fluidic interfaces with partners, and perform design trade-off studies for precision printhead interfaces.\nSelect and evaluate plastics, elastomers, adhesives, films, foams, and other materials for chemical compatibility, dimensional stability, manufacturability, and long-term reliability.\nWork with tooling suppliers, component vendors, and manufacturing partners to optimize injection-molded parts and printhead assemblies for quality, cost, yield, and scalability.\nParticipate in structured problem-solving activities using tools such as FMEA, root cause analysis, tolerance analysis, and Design of Experiments (DOE).\nSupport product launch, manufacturing ramp, and transition of printhead designs into production.\nDrive continuous improvement in printhead performance, quality, manufacturability, cost, and engineering efficiency.\nContribute printhead design knowledge, standards, and best practices across project teams.\nEnsure IP is documented and filed in the appropriate time.\nKey Job Requirements\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related engineering discipline.\nMaster's degree is a plus.\nRequired Technical Qualifications\n4-6 years of experience in mechanical design, product development, or related engineering roles.\nProficiency with 3D CAD modeling and engineering drawing creation for complex plastic parts and mechanical assemblies.\nStrong knowledge of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and tolerance stack-up analysis.\nUnderstanding of mechanical design principles, materials selection, injection molding, assembly processes, and design for high-volume manufacturing.\nExperience designing and testing mechanical and fluidic components and subsystems.\nAbility to define and verify mechanical interfaces, fits, seals, and functional requirements.\nExperience supporting verification, validation, and product qualification testing.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use test and manufacturing data to guide design decisions.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience designing printhead, ink-delivery components, or other fluid-containing precision products.\nKnowledge of injection-molded plastics, elastomers, adhesives, films, foams, springs, and precision mechanical assemblies.\nExperience with fluidic interfaces, venting, sealing, leak prevention, ink-material compatibility, and dimensional control.\nExperience working with molders, tooling suppliers, automation partners, and high-volume contract manufacturers.\nFamiliarity with printhead reliability, environmental testing, shipping robustness, and product qualification processes.\nUnderstanding of NPI (New Product Introduction), tooling qualification, manufacturing ramp, and sustaining engineering lifecycles.\nExperience with statistical analysis, DOE, FMEA, root cause analysis, or reliability methodologies.\nSuccess Factors\nSuccessful candidates will demonstrate:\nStrong mechanical design fundamentals with attention to precision interfaces and fluid-containing products.\nCuriosity and a passion for printhead innovation.\nAbility to balance print quality, fluidic performance, reliability, cost, manufacturability, sustainability, and schedule.\nEffective communication and collaboration across writing systems, materials, manufacturing, quality, and reliability teams.\nOwnership and accountability for printhead design deliverables from concept through production.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic product development environment.\nContinuous learning mindset and commitment to engineering excellence.\nThe pay range for this role is $106,100 to $158,800 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.\nBenefits:\nHP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:\nHealth insurance\nDental insurance\nVision insurance\nLong term/short term disability insurance\nEmployee assistance program\nFlexible spending account\nLife insurance\nGenerous time off policies, including;\n4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure\n11 paid holidays\nAdditional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)\nThe compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.\nJob -\nEngineeringSchedule -\nFull timeShift -\nNo shift premium (United States of America)Travel -\nNot SpecifiedRelocation -\nYesEqual Opportunity Employer (EEO)-\nHP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).\nPlease be assured that you will not be subject to any adverse treatment if you choose to disclose the information requested. This information is provided voluntarily. 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