Vice President, Mechanical Engineering

Vice President, Mechanical Engineering

Location: Charlotte, NC Area
Company: Leviant
Employment Type: Full-Time

About Leviant

Leviant is reimagining how hospitals and other environments protect people from harmful pathogens. Our patented Focused Multivector Ultraviolet (FMUVTM) technology delivers UV-C light from multiple angles, creating a concentrated and more uniform field of energy designed to dramatically reduce shadowing and accelerate germicidal effectiveness. Our technology is designed around a simple idea: highly effective sanitization should also be fast, practical, safe, and easy to integrate into real-world workflows.

We started in healthcare, where infection prevention has enormous implications for patients, clinicians, hospital operations, and cost. Our vision extends well beyond healthcare as we build a broader platform of technologies designed to create safer, healthier indoor environments. We are a growing company at an important stage of our evolution, and we are looking for a senior engineering leader to help us build what comes next.

The Role:

Leviant is seeking a Vice President of Mechanical Engineering to lead the mechanical engineering strategy, development, and execution of our current and future hardware products. This is a hands-on leadership role. We are looking for someone who can operate at the executive level while remaining deeply connected to the engineering itself. You will help translate ambitious product concepts into reliable, manufacturable, scalable products and build the engineering discipline required to support Leviant as we grow. You will have significant ownership over the mechanical architecture of our products, from early concepts and prototypes through testing, design validation, manufacturing, and continuous improvement of products in the field. This role will work closely with company leadership as well as electrical, software, product, manufacturing, clinical, and commercial partners.

What You'll Own

• Lead mechanical engineering across Leviant's existing and next-generation product portfolio.
• Own mechanical architecture, design strategy, engineering standards, and technical decision-making.
• Lead products from concept and prototyping through detailed design, verification, validation, manufacturing, and commercialization.
• Develop innovative mechanical systems that enable Leviant's patented FMUV technology, including structures, enclosures, deployment mechanisms, mobility systems, safety features, and other electromechanical components.
• Drive design for manufacturability, assembly, reliability, serviceability, cost, and scale.
• Build rigorous engineering processes around requirements, design reviews, testing, documentation, change control, and product lifecycle management.
• Partner closely with electrical and software engineering to develop fully integrated electromechanical products.
• Work with manufacturing partners and suppliers on component selection, tooling, sourcing, quality, cost reduction, and production readiness.
• Lead root-cause analysis and engineering resolution of product issues identified during testing, manufacturing, or field deployment.
• Evaluate existing products and identify opportunities to simplify designs, improve reliability, reduce cost, and improve the customer experience.
• Help define Leviant's long-term product and technology roadmap alongside executive and product leadership.
• Build and lead the mechanical engineering organization as Leviant grows, including internal engineers, contractors, development partners, and external manufacturers.
• Establish a culture that combines engineering rigor with the speed, creativity, and practicality required in an early-stage company.What

We're Looking For: We are looking for a builder. The right person has spent their career designing physical products and understands what it takes to move something from an idea on a whiteboard to a product that can be manufactured, shipped, installed, serviced, and relied upon in the real world.

Ideally, you bring:

• 10 years of progressive mechanical engineering experience, including significant technical leadership experience.
• A bachelor's or advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Deep experience designing and commercializing complex electromechanical products.
• Demonstrated experience taking hardware products from concept through production.
• Strong expertise in mechanical design, CAD, materials, mechanisms, structural design, tolerance analysis, prototyping, and design validation.
• Experience with DFM/DFA and working directly with contract manufacturers, suppliers, and tooling partners.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering, failure analysis, testing, and quality.
• Experience developing products subject to safety, certification, or regulatory requirements.
• The ability to make smart engineering tradeoffs among performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, aesthetics, and speed to market.
• Experience building or leading engineering teams while remaining technically engaged.
• Comfort working in an environment where priorities move quickly and leaders are expected to solve problems rather than simply manage them.

Experience with medical devices, healthcare technology, robotics, industrial equipment, lighting, UV systems, or other regulated electromechanical products is highly valuable, but not required.