Mechanical Engineering Manager, Dropbox

1 day, 7 hours ago
Full-time
Lead
IoT and Embedded Systems
Skyline Eco-Adventures

Skyline Eco-Adventures

Skyline Eco Adventures is a company that provides zipline adventure tours in Hawaii. They are committed to having a positive impact on the natural world by operating in a sustainable manner and supporting environmental and cultural preservation efforts.

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
11-50
Founded 2002

Description

  • Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of mechanical engineers.
  • Hire engineers and establish clear ownership, technical direction, and execution plans.
  • Own the Dropbox mechanical architecture and roadmap from requirements through field deployment.
  • Lead development of the enclosure, structure, elevator, lid and access mechanisms, latches, package interfaces, droid interfaces, electronics packaging, harnessing, sealing, and service features.
  • Translate customer and system needs into mechanical requirements, interface definitions, and validation plans.
  • Drive system trades across safety, reliability, user experience, throughput, installation, serviceability, manufacturability, cost, and schedule.
  • Establish datum structures, GD&T, alignment schemes, and tolerance strategies.
  • Integrate mechanical design with sensing and firmware behavior for motion control, homing, access control, obstruction detection, fault handling, and service recovery.
  • Guide selection and integration of motors, actuators, transmissions, bearings, sensors, connectors, PCBAs, harnesses, and seals.
  • Lead the product through prototype builds, engineering validation, design validation, production validation, and volume ramp.
  • Partner with NPI, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and suppliers to achieve scalable, high-yield production.
  • Drive DFM and DFA across relevant mechanical and electromechanical assemblies.
  • Lead responses to test, production, and field failures, including containment, root cause analysis, corrective action, and permanent resolution.
  • Use field reliability, service, and telemetry data to prioritize product improvements.
  • Reduce failure rates, recovery time, maintenance burden, installation complexity, and total cost of ownership.

Requirements

  • Past success managing and developing a team of mechanical engineers.
  • A record of hiring strong engineers and creating a culture of ownership, urgency, and technical rigor.
  • Experience leading first-of-a-kind electromechanical products from architecture through production and field deployment.
  • Significant direct technical contributions to mechanical product architecture earlier in your career.
  • Deep experience with mechanisms, structures, actuators, sensors, electronics integration, and high-cycle moving assemblies.
  • Strong fundamentals in hand calculations, GD&T, tolerance analysis, materials, fatigue, wear, bolted joints, and FEA.
  • Experience designing around PCBAs, harnesses, connectors, motors, transmissions, sensors, and embedded control systems.
  • Experience with sheet metal, injection-molded plastics, machined parts, castings, extrusions, seals, and high-volume manufacturing processes.
  • Demonstrated success with DFM, DFA, supplier engagement, inspection planning, and manufacturing ramp.
  • Experience defining validation plans and demonstrating safety, reliability, environmental, and lifetime requirements.
  • Experience resolving complex production or field failures through disciplined root-cause analysis.
  • Strong customer judgment and an understanding that usability, serviceability, and fault recovery are engineering requirements.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
  • Preferred: experience with outdoor, unattended, or customer-facing electromechanical products.
  • Preferred: experience in robotics, industrial automation, material handling, automotive, appliances, kiosks, or similar systems.
  • Preferred: experience designing powered mechanisms that operate around untrained users.
  • Preferred: experience with environmental sealing, drainage, condensation, corrosion, and wide-temperature operation.
  • Preferred: experience using fleet telemetry or reliability data to improve mechanical hardware.
  • Preferred: experience with Siemens NX.
  • Preferred: aerospace-, automotive-, medical-, or similarly rigorous validation experience.

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