Staff Mechanical Engineer

Staff/Principal Mechanical Engineer – Medical Device Startup | San Diego, CA (Onsite)

I’m partnering with a venture-backed medical device startup in San Diego developing a wearable automated insulin delivery system that makes life with diabetes simpler and safer. Their product has reached clinical studies, and they’re now hiring a Staff/Principal Mechanical Engineer to carry the hardware system through verification and into volume manufacturing.

The Role

You’ll be the hub of the hardware design: the system integrator who brings together user needs, risk analysis, mechanics, electronics, and industrial design into one cohesive product, while staying hands-on in detailed design, analysis, and debugging.

What You’ll Do

• Integrate mechanisms, electronics, motion, fluidics, and packaging into a cohesive, user-centered product
• Translate user needs into design requirements, partnering with industrial design
• Lead risk analysis to drive design decisions and mitigations from the earliest stages
• Own electronics integration within the mechanical system alongside electrical engineering
• Design molded and machined assemblies using tolerance analysis as a core design tool
• Partner with regulatory, quality, and manufacturing on design controls, V&V, biocompatibility, sterilization, human factors, and design transfer
• Coordinate projects, timelines, and budgets; mentor junior engineers as the team grows

What You Bring

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or related field (MS a plus)
• 8+ years of mechanical product design experience, including medical devices or other safety-critical systems
• Track record taking a product from design through verification into volume manufacturing
• Experience as the technical integrator across mechanical, electrical, industrial design, and user requirements
• Experience designing mechanisms and moving assemblies, ideally compact motorized electromechanical devices
• Deep hands-on expertise with molded and machined parts and advanced tolerance analysis
• Working knowledge of design controls, V&V, risk analysis, biocompatibility, sterilization, and human factors