Mechanical Engineer

Product Design Engineer – Reality Labs

Hybrid out of Sunnyvale | 1 year contract + extensions | 15 days PTO

$70.00/hr – $75.00/hr

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience designing and shipping components or systems for consumer electronics or similar mid to high-volume industries
• Strong engineering fundamentals and experience with:
  • Material science experience with relevant materials for consumer electronics: plastics, metals, insulators, gaskets, thermal interface materials
  • Heat transfer
  • Statics
  • Dynamics
  • Structural design
  • Experience with production drawings to GD&T standard
• Experience with tolerance analysis
• Familiarity with PCBA and FPC design and manufacturing methods
• Experience with various subtractive and additive manufacturing technologies for production and prototyping: injection molding, sheet metal, co‑molding, machining, CNC
• Data analysis and visualization experience (MATLAB, Python, JMP or similar)
• Experience building part and assembly prototypes in the shop
• Proficient in NX

• Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, mechatronics or related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of experience designing components or systems for consumer electronics or similar high volume industries
• Experience designing parts with highly cosmetic surfaces
• Mechanism design
• Electronics cooling and thermal architecture design and testing experience
• Sensor design experience
• Optomechanical experience
• DOE and SPC experience
• FEA experience (order of importance): statics, dynamics, thermal, fluids
• Knowledge of design for reliability
• Familiarity with reliability and compliance testing
• Knowledge of electrical design, hardware automation, Arduino, etc.

Insight Global is looking for a Product Design Engineer to join the world’s leading social networking company’s Reality Labs organization, which helps people around the world come together through next generation AR, MR, and VR. The Product Design Engineering team works on cutting‑edge technology and needs skilled engineers to bring ideas to reality. The main function of this Product Design Engineer is to explore, prototype and implement new technologies into functional, medium‑volume prototypes to validate technical and product level functionality, use cases, and tech maturity.

In parallel with de‑risking efforts, you will prepare production documentation including governing design files and bill of materials. You will work alongside a diverse and expert cross‑functional team consisting of EE, FW/SW, Audio, Optical, and other specialists.

• Lead technology development projects through creation of functional prototypes and development of test methods
• Design product components and systems for consumer electronics
• Design electromechanical and optomechanical systems for device testing and validation
• Develop and implement test methods for design validation
• Contribute to creation of technical specifications and product definition
• Work closely with cross‑functional team consisting of EE, FW/SW, Audio, Optical, REL, and Mfg Eng

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