# Mechanical Design Engineer

As a Hardware Design Engineer, you will work with Instrumental’s growing Hardware Design & Solutions team, playing a critical role in designing solutions for Fortune 100 customers. You will leverage your design and manufacturing intuition to develop custom and complex fixtures, optical systems, and station/industrial hardware. The 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. You’ll tackle novel design challenges and leverage mechanical engineering fundamentals, CAD fluency, and knowledge of manufacturing processes. Good listening and natural curiosity are critical, as this role is all about understanding and designing for Instrumental’s users and integrating seamlessly into their processes. We’re Looking for Someone Who: Has a get-stuff

- **Id**: 4036395
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/instrumental-mechanical-design-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Shenzhen, China
- **Countries**: CN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T18:31:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T20:27:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3581
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Computer Vision, Industrial AI

## Company

- **Id**: 176697
- **Name**: Instrumental
- **Domain**: instrumental.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/instrumental-3>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Gem

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.222
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 83
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **China** — Iso: CN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T20:27:03Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 83
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T22:30:19Z

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