Mechanical Engineer, Consumer Electronics

The Role
We're looking for a Mechanical Engineer, Consumer Electronics to own the mechanical design and manufacturing of our current and future products. You'll work across the full product lifecycle — concept, CAD, prototyping, simulation, validation, and production — on low-volume, high-complexity hardware that lives in one of the most demanding environments on earth.

Because our team is small, the scope is broad. In a typical week, you might design a new enclosure, run a drop test, work on mounting integration with a partner fleet or OEM, get on a call with our contract manufacturer to review first articles, and contribute to RaceSense testing and product development, bringing your engineering mindset to design meaningful tests and make sense of the results. What we learn feeds back into future product design, and you'll be part of that loop. If that sounds like a good week, we should talk.

What You'll Do
Design and validate sealed enclosures, mounts, mechanisms, and assemblies that protect electronics against salt water, UV, impact, and vibration — with full consideration for PCB layout, antenna keepouts, cable routing, and thermal management
Test and analyze RaceSense performance, translating findings into mechanical and sensor-integration improvements
Support end-customer hardware integration, including the design of mounting brackets and custom installation hardware for a wide range of boat classes
Partner with our contract manufacturer on DFM, tooling qualification, first-article inspection, and production ramp
Run simulations — FEA, thermal, vibration, sealing, tolerance stack-ups — to de-risk designs before committing to tooling
Collaborate with electrical, firmware, and product teams to navigate cross-disciplinary trade-offs

What We're Looking For
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent hands-on experience
Strong proficiency with modern parametric CAD (SolidWorks, Onshape, or similar)
Direct experience with sealed, waterproof, IP-rated consumer electronics. This is the core of what we build and the most important thing we're looking for.
Track record managing a contract manufacturer: DFM reviews, tooling qualification, quality issues, production support
Fluency with simulation tools (FEA, thermal, tolerance analysis) and good judgment about when simulation earns its keep vs. when to prototype
Experience designing and executing validation test plans, including environmental, drop, and ingress (IP) testing
Comfort working on low-volume, high-complexity products where every part is considered and nothing is mass-produced on autopilot
Fluency with LLM and AI tools as part of your daily engineering workflow — using them to accelerate design exploration, research, documentation, and problem-solving. We expect everyone on the team to be actively leveraging these tools and getting better at them over time.

Nice to Have
Background in sailing, marine, or outdoor-recreation products
Experience taking consumer hardware from prototype through to production
Familiarity with sensor integration (IMUs, GPS, load cells, strain gauges)
You sail, or want to

Benefits & Perks
Competitive salary and meaningful equity in an award-winning, rapidly growing company
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k)
A role that occasionally takes you to regattas and sailing events — we go where our customers race
The chance to work on products used at World Championships and beloved by the best sailors in the world

How to Apply
Please submit a resume and cover letter. In your cover letter, we'd love to hear:
A project you're proud of, ideally one that crossed disciplinary boundaries
Anything about sailing, the water, or the outdoors we should know

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