{"id":4026048,"url":"https://alion.io/job/pplwise-senior-mechanical-design-engineer","title":"Senior Mechanical Design Engineer","company":{"id":689230,"name":"pplwise","domain":"pplwise.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/pplwise","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":93,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.5,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":17,"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Munich, Germany"],"countries":["DE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"GD&T","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T15:08:56Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T16:53:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About pplwise\npplwise is a recruiting consultancy for fast-growing technology companies across Europe. Through Recruiting as a Service and Executive Search, we fill key roles for our clients, from start-ups to publicly listed companies. We are filling this position for our client Filics.\nAbout our client: Filics\nFilics is reinventing intralogistics with autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that change how material moves. Its double-runner system makes Filics the first and only AMR that can drive through load carriers such as Euro pallets. This breaks with forklift logic and sets a new standard for efficiency. Filics is a small, hands-on team that solves hard problems with engineering excellence. Leadership goes to those who take initiative and consistently deliver. As Senior Mechanical Design Engineer (m/f/d) at Filics, you will lead the mechanical design of the robots as they move from prototype to series production.\nAbout the role\nThis is an on-site/hybrid role in Munich, close to engineering and assembly.\nFilics builds its own robot hardware in-house: mechanics, electronics and software. Orders are growing, and the robots are moving from prototypes to series production. Designs that worked in the lab now need to be built reliably, at scale and at the right cost. The hardest problems often sit between disciplines: parts that work on their own can fail once they're assembled with the electronics.\nThe mechanical team has four engineers, most of them at the start of their careers, and they need someone who guides them every day. You'll be the technical lead for the mechanical side of the product and the counterpart to the electronics lead, so the current mechanical manager can focus on core R&D. Your time splits roughly evenly between hands-on engineering and technical leadership. You'll work closely with Electronics, Production, Procurement and the CTO, and you'll set the engineering habits while the team is still small.\nWhat you'll do\nMentor the mechanical engineers day to day: help them make design decisions, set methods and keep projects focused\n\nDesign parts and assemblies in CAD, including tolerancing, and check every design for manufacturability and cost before it goes out\n\nLead testing and integration of mechanics and electronics, and solve the problems that only show once everything is assembled\n\nPrioritise incoming work, follow up on progress and make the day-to-day technical calls on the mechanical side\n\nMake the gated design process work in practice and run design reviews (safety, mechanics, electronics, manufacturability) before parts are integrated\n\nPut design for manufacturing and design for cost in place: fewer, standardised parts and production methods that scale\n\nWork with the electronics owner of each robot module from the first prototype on, and with Production on manufacturability and production jigs\n\nBuild and iterate prototypes based on customer and field feedback\n\nAbout you\nSeveral years of hands-on mechanical design in R&D at a company that develops and builds its own electromechanical products (e.g. power tools, home appliances, e-mobility, production machines, robotics, marine propulsion)\n\nA proven record of taking an electromechanical product from prototype to series production (ideally 1,000+ units a year) on a fast development cycle of about a year, not a decade-long program\n\nYou still design hands-on in CAD, mainly metal parts and assemblies, with strong tolerancing skills (any CAD tool; Onshape is a plus)\n\nYou've applied design for manufacturing and design for cost, and cut cost through design: fewer parts, standard parts\n\nAt least two years of mentoring or technically guiding other engineers; a team-lead title isn't required\n\nExperience testing and integrating mechanics with electronics\n\nYou've introduced processes, design reviews or engineering standards that helped a team deliver\n\nYou handle unclear requirements and break complex problems down so others can work on them\n\nGerman is a plus, since production is mostly German-speaking\n\nBonus: GD&T and tolerance stack-ups, design of production jigs, or projects with motors, motor controllers or electronics\n\nWhat Filics offers\nA key role at an early stage: shape both the mechanical team and the product\n\nReal ownership of the mechanical side, from first prototype to series production\n\nA mix of hands-on engineering and leadership, with a path into team lead and engineering management as Filics grows\n\nFast design cycles driven by customer and field feedback\n\nA small, high-caliber team with close collaboration across mechanics, electronics, software and production\n\nFast growth: one year at Filics teaches you what usually takes many years at a large company\n\nAn on-site/hybrid role in Munich, close to Engineering and Assembly\n\nSound like you? 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