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As a key member of MicroVision's Mechanical Design Engineering team, you will collaborate with technical teams across the company to design and bring to production market-defining LiDAR products for automotive, defense, and industrial applications.\nIn this role you willsupport the design and development of next-generation electro-optical sensor products. This role is responsible for owning mechanical designs from early concept and architecture definition through detailed design, system integration, and release, ensuring solutions meet performance, cost, manufacturability, and quality requirements.\nThe engineer in this role will design and own precision mechanical components and assemblies within a highly integrated, multidisciplinary system. This position emphasizes hands-on mechanical design, strong documentation rigor, tolerance control, and close collaboration with electrical, optical, systems, manufacturing, and program teams throughout the product development process. This position is expected to provide mechanical technical oversight, guiding architecture decisions, trade studies, and design rigor across the product.\nIn this role you will:\nDesign and own precision mechanical solutions for advanced electro-optical sensor products\nTranslate system-level requirements into robust mechanical architecture and detailed designs\nBalance performance, cost, reliability, and manufacturability through disciplined engineering practices\nEnable smooth system integration through strong interface definition and cross-functional execution\nDrive mechanical design rigor across documentation, change management, and risk mitigation\nYourresponsibilities:\nContribute to the realization of new technology through concept development and iterative design Lead design and development of precision mechanical components and assemblies for electro-optical sensor systems\nLead design and development of precision mechanical components and assemblies for electro-optical sensor systems\nDrive early concept and architecture development, including trade studies, layout exploration, and mechanism concepts\nCreate and maintain 3D models, detailed drawings, and GD&T to support robust, repeatable designs\nPerform tolerance analysis and support design decisions related to form, fit, and function\nOwn and manage Bills of Material (BOMs), part structures, and configuration control within a formal PDM/PLM environment\nLead and execute Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) and Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), including technical impact assessment across disciplines\nApply structured problem-solving methodologies (e.g., 8D) to resolve design, manufacturing, or quality issues\nDevelop and maintain Design Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (DFMEAs) to identify and mitigate mechanical risks\nDrive Design-to-Cost, Value Engineering, and Value-Add initiatives across mechanical designs and supplier components\nCollaborate closely with manufacturing engineering, program management, electrical, optical, and systems teams to ensure alignment on requirements, interfaces, and system performance\nCoordinate technical engagement with suppliers and contract manufacturers to support mechanical design, fabrication, and process development\nLead internal design and program reviews, contributing mechanical input to cross-functional technical decisions\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\n10-15+ years of mechanical engineering experience in precision or complex hardware products\nStrong foundation in mechanical design, drafting, and GD&T (SolidWorks)\nDemonstrated experience owning mechanical designs from concept through release\nKnowledge of designing precision components for injection molding, machining, die casting, and metal injection molding (MIM) processes, with an understanding of material selection and manufacturability tradeoffs\nHands-on experience managing BOMs, configuration control, and formal change management processes (ECO/ECR) through PLM system (Arena)\nPractical application of structured problem-solving methodologies such as 8D or equivalent\nExperience developing and maintaining DFMEAs\nFamiliarity with Design-to-Cost and Value Engineering approaches\nStrong cross-functional communication skills, with experience working across mechanical, manufacturing, electrical, optical, and systems engineering teams\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nExperience serving as mechanical lead or subsystem owner on a hardware product\nBackground in precision electro-mechanical or opto-mechanical systems\nExperience supporting products across concept, development, validation, and release phases\nExposure to supplier-driven design optimization or cost reduction initiatives\nExperience working in a regulated industry such as automotive, defense, aerospace, or safety-critical products, including adherence to structured development and documentation processes\nMicroVision offers a flexible work schedule that could include a hybrid schedule of onsite and remote work, subject to team and business needs. Individual work schedules will be at the discretion of management and dependent on role and business needs. You must live and reside within commuting distance from MicroVision’s headquarters in Orlando, FL.\nWe are not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position. You must be able to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.\nBENEFITS \nMicroVision is proud to offer a comprehensive benefit program, if you would like to learn more, please visit:\nCareers - About | MicroVision","description_format":"text","description_chars":5665,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Autonomous Driving","Machine Vision & 3D Cameras"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-17T22:47:09Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 2","filings_12m":2,"filings_prev_12m":3,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":122500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-03T21:08:04+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":22,"expected_fill_days":163,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/micro-vision-staff-mechanical-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/micro-vision-staff-mechanical-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-11T18:59:50Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5333,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":48420},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=48420"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmicro-vision-staff-mechanical-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmicro-vision-staff-mechanical-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmicro-vision-staff-mechanical-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/micro-vision-staff-mechanical-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmicro-vision-staff-mechanical-engineer"}]}