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Senior Mechanical Engineer

Bedford, MASenior LevelFull-TimeMechanical EngineeringPosted

What You’ll Do

  • Develop a strong system-level understanding of the Stride product, including the mechanical system and its interactions with controls, electrical hardware, manufacturing, installation, and service.

  • Own complex mechanical projects or major areas of the product from problem definition through design, analysis, prototyping, validation, documentation, release, and production support.

  • Lead investigations into reliability and performance issues using structured root-cause analysis, testing, field data, and sound engineering judgment.

  • Identify recurring problems and develop robust solutions that address underlying causes rather than individual symptoms.

  • Evaluate how proposed changes affect the broader product, including reliability, safety, cost, manufacturability, installation, serviceability, and compatibility with existing systems.

  • Support the adaptation of the Stride platform for new customers, applications, environments, and market segments while managing product complexity.

  • Provide technical direction for mechanical projects or subsystem-level work involving other engineers and cross-functional partners.

  • Create and maintain high-quality engineering documentation, including requirements, calculations, drawings, bills of material, test plans, test reports, design reviews, and engineering change orders.

  • Work closely with manufacturing, sourcing, quality, controls, electrical engineering, installation, service, and product management.

  • Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and recommendations clearly to both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

  • Review the work of other engineers and help strengthen the team’s technical practices, product knowledge, and documentation quality.

  • Mentor less-experienced engineers and contribute to a collaborative and accountable engineering culture.

What We’re Looking For

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related engineering discipline.

  • 5+ years of experience

  • Considerable experience designing, developing, and supporting complex mechanical or electromechanical products.

  • Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals, including mechanisms, structural design, materials, tolerancing, manufacturing processes, and component selection.

  • Demonstrated ability to independently investigate ambiguous technical problems and bring them to a documented, production-ready resolution.

  • Experience improving the reliability of an existing product through root-cause analysis, testing, and design changes.

  • Ability to understand system-level behavior and recognize how a change in one area may affect the rest of the product.

  • Sound engineering judgment and the ability to make practical tradeoffs among technical performance, risk, cost, schedule, and product complexity.

  • Experience taking designs through release and change-control processes, including drawings, bills of material, design reviews, validation, and engineering changes.

  • Willingness to take ownership of both highly technical work and the detailed documentation required to implement it successfully.

  • Ability to work autonomously while building alignment within a multidisciplinary team.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with industrial automation, material-handling equipment, robotics, conveyors, or other complex machinery.

  • Experience supporting products deployed in customer or production environments.

  • Familiarity with reliability engineering methods, failure analysis, risk assessment, and design verification.

  • Experience designing for manufacturing, assembly, installation, maintenance, and field service.

  • Experience with SolidWorks, PDM or PLM systems, and formal engineering change-control processes.

  • Experience mentoring engineers or improving team processes, tools, or technical standards.

You May Be a Strong Fit If You

  • Prefer improving and evolving a real, fielded product over working exclusively on new concepts.

  • Naturally look beyond the immediate design problem to understand its effect on the full system.

  • Enjoy finding patterns across field issues and turning them into durable product improvements.

  • Can move comfortably between system-level technical discussions and detailed design or documentation work.

  • Are willing to question existing approaches while respecting the knowledge embedded in an established product.

  • Take satisfaction in closing the loop: confirming that a design works, documenting it correctly, and ensuring that it can be built and supported.

  • Influence decisions through technical credibility, clear reasoning, collaboration, and consistent follow-through.

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