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Mechanical Engineer
Accepting applicationsIC Resources · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
Full-Time Mid_senior
Posted
1d ago
Category
Eda
Experience
Mid_senior
Country
United States
Mechanical Engineer
Austin, onsite. Open to candidates relocating.
A venture backed deep tech startup is building a next generation wearable headset that reads the body in real time. It integrates multimodal physiological sensing, EEG, PPG, EDA, eye tracking and motion, and adapts to the person wearing it. Early team, real funding, hardware moving toward production
.
They are hiring a Mechanical Engineer to own the hardware that makes it all work on a human head. This sits where industrial design, electrical integration and human factors meet. Comfort, sensor performance, manufacturability and reliability all run through your designs. This is not a CAD or sustaining seat. You will build, ship and iterate fas
t.
What you will
ownMechanical architecture for the headset: enclosures, structural frames, optical and sensor mounting, thermal, strap and fit syst
emsThe tradeoffs between comfort, weight, structure, and electrical and thermal constrai
ntsSensor placement and signal quality alongside the electrical and firmware te
amsRapid prototyping through EVT, DVT and PVT, hands on, with real build and debug t
imeDFM, DFA and cost at scale with contract manufactur
ers
What you will
needFour to eight years in mechanical engineering for consumer electronics, wearables or sim
ilarShipped at least one product from prototype to produc
tionStrong CAD, SolidWorks, NX or Creo, plus tolerance analysis and stack
upsHands on prototyping, assembly and debug of physical hard
wareComfortable in ambiguity, fast iteration and cross functional integra
tion
Nice to
haveVR, AR or wearable device experience, and sensor integration into physical pro
ductsInjection molding, soft goods, overmolding, and a materials science feel for skin contact sy
stemsTime with contract manufacturers and full EVT to PVT build c
ycles
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Austin, onsite. Open to candidates relocating.
A venture backed deep tech startup is building a next generation wearable headset that reads the body in real time. It integrates multimodal physiological sensing, EEG, PPG, EDA, eye tracking and motion, and adapts to the person wearing it. Early team, real funding, hardware moving toward production
.
They are hiring a Mechanical Engineer to own the hardware that makes it all work on a human head. This sits where industrial design, electrical integration and human factors meet. Comfort, sensor performance, manufacturability and reliability all run through your designs. This is not a CAD or sustaining seat. You will build, ship and iterate fas
t.
What you will
ownMechanical architecture for the headset: enclosures, structural frames, optical and sensor mounting, thermal, strap and fit syst
emsThe tradeoffs between comfort, weight, structure, and electrical and thermal constrai
ntsSensor placement and signal quality alongside the electrical and firmware te
amsRapid prototyping through EVT, DVT and PVT, hands on, with real build and debug t
imeDFM, DFA and cost at scale with contract manufactur
ers
What you will
needFour to eight years in mechanical engineering for consumer electronics, wearables or sim
ilarShipped at least one product from prototype to produc
tionStrong CAD, SolidWorks, NX or Creo, plus tolerance analysis and stack
upsHands on prototyping, assembly and debug of physical hard
wareComfortable in ambiguity, fast iteration and cross functional integra
tion
Nice to
haveVR, AR or wearable device experience, and sensor integration into physical pro
ductsInjection molding, soft goods, overmolding, and a materials science feel for skin contact sy
stemsTime with contract manufacturers and full EVT to PVT build c
ycles
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