Job Description
Yoh Life Sciences is hiring for a Sr. R&D Mechanical Engineer with a leading cell therapy customer in the Bay Area . The primary focus of this position will be to develop, test, and assemble critical engineering subsystems. This is a multidisciplinary role & this individual will interface across many parts of the company (with scientists, researchers, and engineers) to develop the best solutions possible. The successful candidate will be a resident expert in the areas of mechanical design, fluidic control, and highly automated instrument development.
Location - Bay Area
Salary - $110-210K DOE
D uration- Permanent
Schedule - M- F 9-5pm
Responsibilities - Responsible for the design, development, and prototyping of mechanical components & complex biotech instruments and mechanical sub-systems
- Interface with systems & mechanical engineering teams to negotiate designs that meet product requirements & are feasible to manufacture economically
- Work closely with Electrical, Controls, & Systems engineers on complex electromechanical designs
- Ability to be a technical lead on complex projects that encompass electrical, mechanical, controls disciplines, and work for our internal customers
- Conduct design reviews and present fresh ideas, new technologies and creative solutions to design problems
- Define subsystem architecture
- Show proof of concept through rapid prototyping; your skills will be used to build and test your own assemblies
- Ability to extract design requirements from a broad spectrum of user needs
- Identify potential design risks and provide a path to rapid derisk/pivot
- Design and develop automated test fixtures to validate reliability and robustness of novel components
- Work closely with the scientific team through the creation of verification /validation protocols (IQ, OQ, PQ) as well as successful execution, data generation, report and documentation
Requirements - BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 8-10 years of extensive, hands-on experience in the semiconductor, biotech automation, or similar industries
- Instrument/consumable/injection molding experience required
- Experience transferring design to manufacturing.
- Experience communicating with vendors overseas.
- Prior experience with FDA regulations and ISO, cGMP, QMS standards is a plus
- Knowledge and/or hands-on experience with machine shop tools is a plus
- Must Haves -
- Knowledge of GD&T as well as strong proficiency with SolidWorks
- Rapid Prototyping experience
- Experience with scripting using Python
- Work history with several successful iterations of highly automated instrument design and development
$110,000 - $210,000 a year
Estimated Min Rate : $180000.00
Estimated Max Rate : $210000.00 Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.
Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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For California applicants, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. All of the material job duties described in this posting are job duties for which a criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment.
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