Bloom Energy
Staff Mechanical Engineer, Development
San Jose, California · Staff+
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About the role
- Responsible for interfacing with quality groups to identify reliability issues in the field, driving root cause, and designing/implementing changes to mitigate these failures.
- Responsible for designing/validating/implementing changes to reduce product cost
- Control drawing and model releases through an ECN process
Responsibilities
- Responsible for sustaining product development for reliability improvement, design for manufacturing, and cost reduction
- Responsible for meeting with manufacturing and supporting design changes to improve manufacturability and driving testing/implementation.
- Lead technical design transfer to BE Contract Manufacturers and suppliers while meeting established milestones for production release
- Ability to drive process development and improvement to manufacturability and incorporate lessons learned
- Ability to address capacity and design for manufacturing issues with suppliers and engineers
- Utilize engineering knowledge to provide solutions to challenging design and manufacturing problems to suppliers and engineering
- Manage top level assemblies in a PDM system environment and communicate to supplier
- Create and manage Solidworks CAD models, drawings and assemblies
Requirements
- Skills Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
Skills
- Solid understanding of engineering principles
- Proven success working on cross-functional projects
- Excellent Solidworks CAD & drafting knowledge
- Experience with revision control with a CAD vault tool
- Experience with ECN process (Agile)
- Excellent communication skills
- Highly motivated and a self-starter
- Ability to travel overseas (30-50%)
Compensation
- Bloom Energy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
Company info
- At Bloom, we thrive on collaboration, bold thinking, and relentless innovation.
- We are looking for a Staff Engineer, Development to join our team in one of today's most exciting technologies.
- We are committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities.
This listing is sourced directly from Bloom Energy's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.