"Ça va?" in French means "how are you?". At Çava we are committed to breaking the cycle of "sickcare" and to help everyone understand how they're really doing on the inside, before they get sick. We want people to live longer, healthier lives and are committed to creating the tools to enable preventive healthcare, starting with at-home health monitoring solutions and daily access to health data.
Job opportunity
Title: Sr. Mechanical Engineer
Commitment: Full-time (Salary + equity)
Location: Newport Beach, CA (up to 90% remote schedule)
Overview:
As a Senior Mechanical Engineer for our Çava Seat 1 category, you will be responsible for taking the products through various stages of new product introduction (NPI) development by working cross-functionally across multiple teams. In addition to early involvement with product design team on design for manufacturability, you will also be evaluating manufacturing processes by designing and conducting research programs; applying knowledge of product design, fabrication, assembly, tooling, and materials; and conferring with equipment vendors. You will be driving design for excellence (DFX) to improve process and assure product and process quality by designing testing methods; testing finished product and process capabilities.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
- 3 years of experience with consumer hardware product design
- Mechanical lead for a program or major sub-assembly on a shipping consumer hardware product
- Experience with machine shop, 3D printing and other rapid prototyping tools
- Demonstrated ability to test and debug mechanical prototypes
- Experience with computer-aided design (CAD) tools
- 50 days of onsite support of validation builds at manufacturing facilities (E.g., Asia contract manufacturers)
- Experience with design of plastic and metal components, assemblies with integrated printed circuit boards, flexible printed circuits
- Experience working directly with Industrial Design and Electrical Engineering teams
- Ability to work independently, document work, highlighting key updates, risks and schedules to broader team
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
- Experience with structural, thermal and fluid FEA
- Experience with plastic tooling design and Moldflow analysis
- Manufacturing fixture design and process development
- Product reliability test development and analysis of results
- Electrical cable and connector design
- Designing for waterproofing (E.g., IP67)
- Experience with electrical sensor and display integration
- Product quality: Evaluation of FAI/Cpk reports, yield projections and cosmetic review
- Expertise in tolerance analysis (RSS method)
- Data analysis using JMP or Minitab
Responsibilities:
- Design and manage mechanical development of a consumer hardware product
- Support prototype development platforms for sensors and fluid/heating systems
- Work with Industrial Design team to take an ID model and create 3D and 2D detailed drawings for individual parts and assemblies
- Maintain an updated Bill of Materials (BOM) and revision control
- Work with global manufacturing suppliers for individual part manufacturing and final assembly process/procedures
- Review/OK DFM's (Design for Manufacturability) from suppliers
- Onsite/remote build support during validation builds and mass production
