Senior Mechanical Engineer,
LUNAR
San Francisco, CA
08.30.13
LUNAR’s San Francisco office is looking for you:
an exceptionally talented Senior Mechanical
Engineer who has been successfully designing
products for many years. You have experience as
the lead engineer on projects, guiding a team of
mixed disciplines to the best technical solutions
and guiding the client to the best choices.
Engineering at LUNAR demands exceptional
mechanical conceptualization, analysis and
visualization skills. Also essential are flawless
communication skills (spoken, written and
sketched), creative thinking, sound judgment,
organization, diplomacy, thoroughness,
professionalism, humor, and an uncanny desire to do great work.
About Us: LUNAR is a leading creative force in
the practice of design, product development, and
product engineering. With offices in San
Francisco, Chicago, Hong-Kong and Munich, LUNAR’s
broad international perspective enables us to
design for a global audience. Our passion is
creating beautiful, ingenious and charismatic
products that are relevant to the people who use
them. Our diverse designers, engineers and
thinkers draw from many viewpoints, sources of
inspiration, and histories to infuse our award
winning work with emotion and meaning, as well as
functionality and brand presence. This position is in our San Francisco office.
About the Position: Clients come to LUNAR to
instill charisma, beauty and ingenuity into their
products. Our engineers are the keystone of this
capability, working hand-in-hand with our world
class designers, clients and suppliers to achieve
unparalleled results. As a member of this
international team, you will be responsible for
developing innovative and transformative product
concepts and turning them into the world’s best
products. Specifically, you will:
Responsibilities
· Leading the technical engineering effort on a given project
· Managing staff engineers on projects
· Leading the client to the best solutions via a thorough process
· Developing product concepts, layouts and detail designs
· Conducting engineering reviews of projects
· Proactively managing the engineering resources and needs of a project
· Client management: setting, managing and exceeding their expectations
· Budget and schedule planning of the engineering portion of projects
· Actively contributing to the entire
engineering team in terms of knowledge growth,
process improvement and mentoring.
About You: Beyond your excellent grasp of how
things interact in 3D, you have a desire to
create products that look, feel and work great
and which continue to delight their users long
after they recycled the packaging. You understand
the importance of fulfilling user needs, you care
about sustainability and you’re passionate about
creating products that make a difference. You are
a self starter and comfortable juggling multiple
projects concurrently. You have experience in a
variety of markets and types of products that
bring immediate contributions to the table, and
you have confidence in your ability to learn
quickly when out of your comfort zone. You have a
desire to exceed clients’ expectations, and a
hunger to lead the technical product development
on tight schedules and budgets. You are, as we
say at LUNAR, a fearless reality creator.
Requirements:
· Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, minimally
· 5-8 years’ experience in an engineering
role, with experience as the lead engineer on a project
· Excellent communication skills
· Experience with Pro/Engineer or
SolidWorks, with knowledge and sensitivity to complex surfacing
· Experience guiding the work of others
and directly supporting clients
· Working knowledge of high and low volume manufacturing processes
· Ability to perform stress/strain analysis and tolerance analysis
· Ideally experience working closely with
industrial and user interaction designers at a product development firm
· Ideally experience with the full
product development process from conceptual
design through to manufacturing ramp up.
· Ideally experience leading a project
team and managing schedules and budgets.
· Ideally experience with consumer
electronics, consumer package goods and medical devices
· Ideally experience with medical regulatory practices
About Applying: Please submit:
1. A current resume and cover letter
2. Samples of your work that best
demonstrate your skills and experience, showing
process and thought. Submit your portfolio
electronically either by sending a PDF enclosure
(no more than 6MB) or by sending a URL where it can be viewed.
3. References who can attest to your design
and project leadership, as well as your ability
to inspire the best in creative staff.
Application materials to be sent to <mailto:HR_at_lunar.com>HR_at_lunar.com
Please include "Senior Mechanical Engineer" in the subject line.
No phone calls, please. Please do not send CDs or hard copies.
And, thank you for your interest in joining LUNAR!
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Kristin Burns
Group Manager
Mechanical Engineering Design
Stanford University, Bldg 550 Rm 153
Stanford, CA 94305-4021
phone 650-723-4288
fax 650-723-3521
http://me.stanford.edu/groups/design/
Received on 2013-10-11 07:30:31