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You will leverage your design and manufacturing intuition to develop custom and complex fixtures, optical systems, and station/industrial hardware.\nThe Solutions team is part of our larger sales organization, which is uniquely full of former mechanical engineers who are now using their skills to support and enable engineers around the world. This team is critical to scoping, selling, and successfully implementing Instrumental’s AI technology on NPI and production lines for products as diverse as smartglasses, solar inverters, and high-performance compute racks. Every customer and product is different - leading to exciting, impactful projects.\nYou’ll tackle novel design challenges and leverage mechanical engineering fundamentals, CAD fluency, and knowledge of manufacturing processes. 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