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Divergent 3D is building advanced manufacturing systems for automotive, aerospace, and defense industries. As a Senior Mechanical Engineer on the Factory Automation team, you will own the mechanical design and deployment of automation systems that form the foundation of Divergent's Adaptive Production Systems (DAPS). These systems enable factories to rapidly reconfigure for simultaneous production of automotive, aerospace, and defense structures, eliminating traditional tooling bottlenecks that constrain flexible manufacturing.
You will translate manufacturing and operational needs into robust mechanical designs, evaluate tradeoffs across performance, cost, reliability, manufacturability, and deployment speed, and drive complex mechanical systems from concept through production. This is a hands-on role with significant technical ownership and high autonomy.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own mechanical design and development of significant automation systems from problem definition through detailed design, release, integration, validation, and deployment
- Translate manufacturing needs into clear system requirements, interfaces, constraints, and acceptance criteria while collaborating with mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, and operations teams
- Develop effective solutions balancing technical requirements with practical constraints around cost, schedule, manufacturability, and deployment
- Create mechanical architectures and detailed designs using CAD, drawings, GD&T, tolerance analysis, engineering calculations, component selection, and bills of material
- Apply broad mechanical engineering expertise across structures, mechanisms, precision motion, fluids, thermal systems, sealing, enclosures, and machine integration
- Evaluate design alternatives and make sound technical tradeoffs across performance, reliability, safety, manufacturability, serviceability, cost, schedule, and technical risk
- Identify technical and integration risks and develop mitigation strategies
The ideal candidate has a track record of independently architecting, designing, building, testing, and deploying complex mechanical systems with strong experience in machine design, manufacturing methods, motion systems, and structures. You thrive in fast-moving environments, operate with high autonomy, and are passionate about turning ambitious concepts into deployed hardware.
