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Staff Mechanical Engineer
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Posted on: Nov 12, 2026
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Boston, Massachusetts
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Onsite
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Full-time
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Job Title :
Staff Mechanical Engineer
Job Type :
Full-Time
Job Location :
Boston Massachusetts United States
Remote :
No
Job Description :
Job Description
- Define and lead the mechanical domain's technical roadmap with engineering and product leaders. Identify investments that address customer needs and expand what our systems can do.
- Lead strategic initiatives spanning multiple teams, from concept through validation and production. Turn ambiguous goals into aligned requirements and milestones, and manage technical risks, interfaces, and dependencies.
- Develop mechanical architectures and reusable subsystems that multiple teams can build on. Make clear tradeoffs among performance, cost, reliability, safety, and manufacturability.
- Stay close to the hardware. Use analysis, prototypes, and experiments to resolve the domain's hardest technical problems, reduce uncertainty early, and unblock teams.
- Identify new technical and product opportunities, then establish feasibility through focused development work. Guide adoption of the resulting platforms, tools, or components across teams.
- Establish shared practices for mechanical design, technical reviews, validation, and documentation. Partner with manufacturing to turn lessons from builds and production into repeatable improvements.
- Build alignment across disciplines when requirements or technical approaches conflict. Document decisions and their rationale so teams and leaders can act with a shared understanding.
- Mentor Senior engineers in architectural judgment and technical leadership. Help engineers across teams solve problems independently and contribute to shared standards.
- You've set technical direction for a mechanical domain or platform and led its adoption across multiple teams, with results that extend beyond your own designs.
- You have deep mechanical design judgment, strong engineering fundamentals, and practical experience with analysis, prototyping, testing, and system integration.
- You've delivered complex hardware through engineering builds and into production, taking responsibility for technical risks and dependencies across teams.
- You connect business and customer needs to a practical technical roadmap. You can make progress with incomplete information and revise your approach as evidence develops.
- You communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, build consensus across disciplines, and serve as a trusted technical partner to engineering and product leaders.
- You've helped experienced engineers grow and created tools, design guidance, or standards that other teams use successfully.
- You're interested in using AI tools to improve engineering quality and speed, and you apply engineering judgment to verify their results.
- You bring a degree in mechanical engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Position Details
Posted:
Nov 12, 2026
Reference Number:
79e5bbbe
Employment:
Full-time
City:
Boston
Job Origin:
ziprecruiter
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