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Our systems create process windows that conventional thermal tools cannot reach, enabling customers to manufacture in ways that were previously not possible. We’re at the forefront of advanced manufacturing.\nOur next step is scaling the platform: larger process areas, higher throughput, tighter uniformity, continuous operation, and production-grade reliability. Mechanical engineering sits at the center of that work.\nWe are hiring a Staff Mechanical Engineer to help design the next generation of the platform and to establish how mechanical systems are developed, released, and maintained as we scale.\nThis role carries broad technical ownership: the architecture, the design decisions, and the release calls, with visibility into the business context that shapes them. You will work with a small team, move quickly from concept to hardware, and see your designs operating in customer production environments.\nThe Work\nYou will design across the mechanical architecture of the platform: machined structures, high-voltage packaging, production racks, lamp heads, and quartz optics. You will also own precision mechanisms, cooling and fluid systems, web and conveyor handling, and the hardware that integrates our systems into customer production lines.\nYou will work from physics and architecture through drawings, suppliers, assembly, test, field performance, and the next revision. This is not a design-only role.\nWhat You Own\nMechanical subsystems from architecture through production release and sustaining.\nThe approach, the materials, the suppliers, and the release decision.\nWhen to calculate, when to prototype, when to test, and when to simulate.\nThe mechanical practices we adopt: drawing standards, review depth, and configuration control.\nClose, deep collaboration with electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, and supply chain.\nRequired Qualifications\nB.S. in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent technical depth.\n10+ years designing hardware that was built, tested, and released or deployed. Exceptional candidates with demonstrated ownership will be considered regardless of years of experience.\nStrong 3D CAD. Inventor preferred; SolidWorks, NX, or Creo translate.\nMechanical fundamentals applied in practice: statics, dynamics, materials, heat transfer, machine design, fasteners, structures, tolerancing, and manufacturability.\nRelease-ready output: clean models, drawings, BOMs, and packages that manufacturing and suppliers can build from without coming back to you.\nDesign for manufacturability, assembly, serviceability, and cost, including scaling from prototype to production.\nHands-on experience building, testing, modifying, and troubleshooting hardware.\nClear communication about tradeoffs, risk, cost, schedule, performance, and release decisions.\nDemonstrated technical leadership and mentorship of cross-functional engineering teams\nPreferred Qualifications\nHigh-voltage or power electronics packaging.\nThermal management, closed-loop cooling, heat exchangers, chillers, or fluid systems.\nPrecision or alignment-sensitive assemblies, optics-adjacent hardware, quartz, or lamp-head assemblies.\nWeb handling, conveyor systems, or roll-to-roll equipment.\nSemiconductor or industrial capital equipment installed into customer fabs, factories, or production lines.\nHarsh-environment design: vibration, thermal cycling, contamination control, sealing, ruggedization, and serviceability.\nAutodesk Vault or similar PDM; Odoo or similar ERP/MRP; BOM management, ECO/ECR, and configuration control.\nFEA, CFD, thermal simulation, GD&T, and tolerance stack analysis.\nStrong Signals\nYou have owned hardware end to end, and your decisions moved cost, schedule, reliability, or manufacturability.\nYou get from rough requirements to a defensible mechanical architecture without waiting for every input to be defined.\nYou know when a hand calculation is enough, when a test is faster, and when serious simulation is warranted.\nYou have debugged problems that cross mechanical, thermal, fluidic, electrical, optical, and controls boundaries.\nYou understand how designs fail when they scale: tolerance stackups, assembly variation, supplier capability, service access, and configuration control.\nYou leave the engineering system better than you found it: cleaner drawings, better reviews, faster root cause, fewer repeated mistakes.\nLocation and Travel\nNorth Austin, TX. 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