# Senior Mechanical Engineer, NPI

**Company**: Cricut
**Location**: South Jordan, UT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer on our product development team, you will assume a key leadership role, providing deep mechanical engineering expertise.

You will develop mechanical designs for new and existing products by applying engineering and fabrication principles to product designs for the consumer market.

You will lead and mentor other engineers in the company and individuals both senior and junior to you and at the same level as you.

Essential Duties:

- Develop concepts and ideas for new products or methods to improve existing products.

- Design mechanisms, drive systems, sheet metal, plastic housings and components in support of new products.

- Develop cost estimates based on product concepts or designs.

- Use engineering principles to develop the structural design of products.

- Specify materials and components in designs.

- Manage multiple design projects at once.

- Work independently with little or no direction.

- Present and participate in design reviews and update designs as required.

- Develop schedules for part and product development.

- Proactively identify risks and develop and execute risk reduction measures.

- Problem solve and implement corrective and preventative actions.

- Keep appraised of the customer experience related to company products.

- Work with design and/or manufacturing partners to ensure manufacturability and smooth product ramps.

- Perform testing of designs to prove functionality and reliability.

- Generate design specifications and drawings for external design and manufacturing activities.

- Apply statistical methods in the development and improvement of products.

- Mentor other engineers throughout the design cycle.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering.

- 5+ Years of applicable experience.

- Experience designing consumer-based products similar to ours.

- Proficient in the use of 3D CAD and engineering analysis tools.

- Interest in and an aptitude for robotics, kinematics, dynamics, mechatronics, mechanism design, etc.

- Experienced in injection molded plastics design, tooling best practices and process tuning.

- Strong understanding of mechanical systems, materials, and manufacturing processes.

- Familiar with sheet metal design and fabrication processes.

- Familiar with rapid prototype techniques and processes.

- Proficient in the application of GD&T.

- Effective communicator.

- Ability to work independently with minimal direction.

We’ve Got You Covered: At Cricut, we take care of our people with competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, a 401(k) match, generous PTO, tuition reimbursement, and a yearly lifestyle stipend.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- 3D CAD
- engineering analysis tools
- robotics
- kinematics
- dynamics
- mechatronics
- mechanism design
- injection molded plastics design
- tooling best practices
- process tuning
- mechanical systems
- materials
- manufacturing processes
- sheet metal design
- fabrication processes
- rapid prototype techniques
- GD&T

### Nice to have
- Previous experience with ODMs

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