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Own the tradeoffs when those budgets conflict, and decide which ones give.\n\nDecide which mechanical problems each device generation takes on and which it deliberately does not, and hold that line when the program pushes back.\n\nOwn build and tooling strategy for the platform: what is printed, machined, molded, or bought; when tooling gets committed; and which molders, soft goods vendors, and CMs Mind builds a long-term relationship with.\n\nSet the mechanical standards other hardware teams work to: design review, tolerance analysis practice, materials and skin-contact qualification, and DFM expectations for vendors.\n\nStay hands-on. Build, test, and break prototypes on real users, and personally run the tolerance, structural, drop, and thermal analyses that decide the architecture.\n\nGrow the mechanical bench through design review, mentorship on the wearable stack, and hiring.\n\nQualifications\nExceptional mechanical intuition. 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