Vital Lyfe
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Los Angeles - Greater Area · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 188 days ago
FEAMechanical Design
About the role
- About Vital Lyfe Vital Lyfe is a tech company redefining water autonomy through innovation, creating a new category of personal water making technology built to scale where infrastructure can't.
Responsibilities
- Own major mechanical subsystems from concept through production ramp and launch.
- Design, prototype, and validate pumps, valves, pressure vessels, and related mechanical components.
- Drive system-level tradeoffs across performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost.
- Build and run test plans to validate performance across real-world environments and edge cases.
- Work closely with electrical, firmware, industrial design, and manufacturing to turn ideas into shipped product.
- Help design and improve manufacturing processes and production equipment, including fixtures, tooling, and automation concepts.
- identify problems, propose solutions, and implement changes without heavy process overhead.
- Support supplier selection, part qualification, and production ramp.
- Strong CAD and FEA skills applied to real, production-intent designs.
- Iterate fast; identify problems, propose solutions, and implement changes without heavy process overhead.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience designing and shipping mechanical or electromechanical hardware.
- Experience taking products from prototype to manufacturing.
- Comfort working in ambiguity and making tradeoffs with incomplete information.
Nice to have
- Experience with consumer hardware or high-volume manufacturing.
- Background in pumps, valves, pressure systems, or fluid mechanics.
- Exposure to automation, manufacturing process development, or production equipment.
- Startup or early-stage company experience.
- Physical Job Requirements - Essential Functions
- Hands on work on development hardware.
- Long periods of standing, crouching, walking.
- Lifting up to 50 lbs.
Company info
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