Manager, Mechanical Engineering

How You’ll Contribute

This is a player-coach leadership role - you will be the technical anchor for mechanical execution while building and leading a small team.

• Lead all aspects of mechanical engineering execution across the full development cycle, from concept definition and feasibility prototyping through EVT, DVT, PVT, and ramp.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and direction on cross-functional trade-offs and architectural decisions spanning fields such as thermals, fluids, mechanisms, and sensing.
• Ensure hardware products meet high standards of performance, user experience, and quality.
• Travel to Asia to ensure teams and suppliers are delivering successfully against goals.
• Shape and execute the hardware product roadmap with stakeholders across the company.
• Work with the Chief Product Officer and executive team to shape and execute the hardware product roadmap and features, translating requirements into shippable mechanical architecture, schedules, and build plans.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across electrical engineering, software engineering, sensing and clinical, operations, marketing, and finance to develop and launch products successfully.

Grow and manage a high-performing engineering team

• Manage mechanical, soft goods, and prototype & test engineers, operating as a player-coach who stays close to the technical details.
• Hire and coach talented engineers who can move fast and are committed to our mission.
• Foster a culture of excellence and collaboration.
• Implement systems and processes to ensure the team is operating at peak efficiency, including design reviews, clear ownership, and phase gates.
• Provide feedback, coaching, and performance management to help the team consistently deliver.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• 8+ years of experience developing complex electromechanical systems, ideally high-volume consumer hardware.
• Track record of launching products successfully under aggressive timelines with lean teams, including scaling products to high volume production in Asia (tooling, build management - EVT, DVT, PVT - test tool development, and testing).
• Desire to be technically engaged in the details while managing the team.
• Deep knowledge of injection molding, electronics/sensor integration, and mechanism design.
• Proficiency with thermal engineering, fluid systems, actuators, and soft goods is highly desirable.
• Experience leading early stage product development efforts, including concept definition, feasibility prototyping, and industrial design.
• Demonstrated ability to hire and manage mechanical engineers, with an appetite to build and develop a team over time.
• BSME or equivalent.
• Willingness and ability to travel to China as needed.
• Ability to work from our SF office in alignment with team expectations.