Mechanical Engineer

To enable the achievement of 3X growth in the company’s annual revenue, with 1/3 rd of the revenue from recurring SaaS subscriptions by initiating global sales conversations with manufacturers who need to know how to detect and resolve the source of their bonding problem. While this may sound mundane, this is the challenge at the root of making products smaller, lighter, and of higher quality. This is a need that thousands of manufactures and product teams are challenged by daily. Customers look to Brighton Science to provide their unique instrumentation and experience to understand how to create better products, as well as improve the quality of the products that they are already making. We are helping our customers understand their problem in new ways, leading to measurable, breakthrough performance. Brighton Science offers a patented solution that detects flaws that cause bonding failure with adhesives and coatings. Unlike other solutions, we find the issue where it happens and lead to faster root cause analysis. The solution from Brighton Science allows for detection and analysis within an individual process, across company facilities, and across a supply chain or innovation network. The company already has relationships with some of the world’s most well-known technology and manufacturing companies. We are embarking on a period of rapid expansion globally. The right candidate will have the opportunity for career defining growth. Job Duties: Brighton Science customers, which include major players in the aerospace, automotive, medical device, and consumer goods industries, continually rely on us to help them innovate and implement cutting edge process and equipment improvements that advance the capability and reliability of many of the products we interact with on a daily basis. We are looking for awesome people to join our team and help us continue to amaze our customers with the solutions we provide. You will work on a small efficient scrum team, focused on delivering new mechanical products and enhancements that increase the customers’ ability to use our products effectively. A good candidate should be proficient in most responsibilities listed below and willing to learn the remaining items. The position reports to the Director of Hardware Engineering and will provide opportunities for career advancement as the company grows. What will I be doing? · Working within a Scrum team designing and developing hardware solutions to support our continued product development initiatives · Applying appropriate design/architectural patterns to solve practical problems · Reviewing customer specifications and requirements, including industry-specific flow-downs from aerospace, automotive, and medical device customers, and confirming our products and solutions meet them before release · Understanding business needs and being capable of translating them into technical solutions · Contributing as an integral member of a cross-functional team, using working knowledge of electrical and software principles to make informed design trade-offs and anticipate integration challenges early · Self-motivating and self-managing in a rapid development environment · Taking ownership of project components · Writing and executing Engineering/System test plans · Keeping current on technological advances and specifications that affect Brighton Science suite of product solutions · Working alongside product management to craft technical solutions to solve customer business problems · Ensuring projects align with annual and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) · Promoting inquisitiveness within the team · Continuously challenging the status quo We’d love to hear from you if you have: · B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering or related work experience · Experience creating detailed manufacturing, application, and layout drawings/assemblies using CAD models · Experience with drawing and documentation revisioning and control · Ability to test new products to verify design intent through virtual and physical methods · Able to evaluate compliance and safety requirements and ensure adherence during design and manufacturing · Experience with continuous development and deployment · Are comfortable executing autonomously in the face of ambiguity · Possess a growth mindset (“How do I continue to improve our product/processes.”)