What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mechanical Engineer position at IC Resources?
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
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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
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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
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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
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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