engineering
Posted Aug 22, 2025Principal, Systems/Mechanical Engineering
at Home Delivery Service (HDS Global)
Boston, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Develop, track, and be responsible for creating system-level engineering specifications from market/business requirements
- Lead a team, consisting of direct and/or matrixed reports
- Develop complex system/product development plans
- Develop interface specifications between system components
- Create system-level Theory of Operations documents touching on mechanical, electrical, controls, and software
- Develop system level safety architecture with Head of Controls and Head of Electrical
- Help architect complex mechatronic and enterprise-level systems
- Establish system reliability/availability/maintainability metrics
- Establish standards for development of complex systems and how we will document system interfaces, communication protocols
- Ensure that products are designed with future needs in mind (e.g., processor selection, motor sizing, board expandability, etc)
- Conduct system-level design reviews, DFMEA, risk assessments
- Identify system needs/gaps before these create problems; anticipate areas of difficulty that require more attention
- Lead system-level regulatory and safety compliance efforts Experience
Requirements
- Serve as our expert and go-to person regarding how everything works together
- BS in Engineering; mechanical or electrical preferred
- Ability to get into design details with the rest of the design team, having a deep understanding of mechanical and electrical engineering, with knowledge of controls engineering and software engineering
- Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose problems with mechatronic systems •
- Experience leading teams, delegating tasks, creating team schedules, and setting priorities
- Significant knowledge of mechanical design, drawing standards, mechanical tolerances and stack-ups, fabrication techniques
- Significant knowledge of electronics; ability to understand electrical schematics •
- Experience with optical, proximity, IR, LIDAR, ultrasonic, RFID and other sensing technologies typically used in robotics
- Solid understanding of the general scope of HW and SW product development activities