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Staff Mechanical Engineer

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🔥 4 minutes ago

🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $145k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍🔧 Mechanical Engineer

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Red Cell Partners

11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Defense • Consulting

Red Cell Partners is a company that creates, launches, and scales technology companies focusing on healthcare, cybersecurity, and national security. Founded with the mission to drive transformative advancements, Red Cell Partners invests in and develops companies that address critical challenges within these sectors. Their approach is rooted in innovation and collaboration, leveraging a network of entrepreneurs, operators, and technologists. Red Cell Partners aims to bring revolutionary solutions to market, contributing to technological renewal in industries crucial for national wellbeing.

📋 Description

• Own the mechanical architecture for advanced antenna, plasma-device, electronics, and communications-system hardware. • Lead mechanical design reviews, establish analysis and documentation standards, and guide decisions involving performance, risk, cost, schedule, and manufacturability. • Define modular product architectures from laboratory prototypes to fieldable systems and future product variants. • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across multidisciplinary programs. • Create and maintain CAD models, production drawings, GD&T schemes, tolerance analyses, bills of material, and configuration-controlled design documentation. • Perform or direct thermal and structural analyses for electronics, antenna assemblies, plasma devices, and environmental loads. • Select materials and joining methods for high voltage, RF exposure, thermal cycling, vacuum or controlled environments, and rugged use. • Engineer interfaces involving ceramics, metals, seals, brazed or bonded joints, precision alignment, thermal expansion, shock, vibration, and fatigue. • Drive hardware iteration through prototype, integration, environmental test, qualification, and design release. • Design fixtures and test articles; support instrumentation, assembly, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective action. • Define test procedures and acceptance criteria and correlate thermal and structural predictions with measured hardware behavior. • Apply DFM and DFA principles while preserving RF, plasma, thermal, structural, and serviceability requirements. • Lead technical engagement with machine shops, joining and brazing vendors, additive manufacturers, and contract manufacturing partners. • Review quotes, supplier capabilities, first articles, inspection results, nonconformances, and corrective actions. • Establish repeatable assembly, inspection, quality, and configuration-management processes.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related field. • 7+ years of relevant mechanical product-development experience, including technical ownership of complex electromechanical hardware through design, build, integration, and test. • Advanced proficiency with a modern 3D CAD platform, production drawings, GD&T, and tolerance analysis. • Strong command of thermal management, structural mechanics, materials selection, and manufacturing processes. • Demonstrated ability to lead design reviews, mentor engineers, communicate technical risk, and make sound decisions with incomplete information. • Hands-on experience with experimental hardware and disciplined technical documentation. • Ability to meet requirements associated with work on U.S. government and national-security programs. • Experience with antenna systems, RF electronics packaging, aerospace hardware, high-voltage equipment, vacuum systems, or plasma devices. • Experience with ceramics, metal-ceramic interfaces, brazing, adhesives, seals, coatings, or high-temperature assemblies. • Proficiency with finite-element thermal or structural analysis and model-to-test correlation. • Experience supporting environmental qualification, including shock, vibration, temperature, ingress, or related testing. • Experience in an early-stage company, rapid-prototyping organization, defense program, or SBIR/STTR environment. • Active U.S. security clearance or eligibility to obtain one.

🏖️ Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows • 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. • Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay. • Unlimited PTO, with management approval. • Opportunities for professional development and continued learning. • Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available. • Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind. • Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.

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