Senior/Lead Mechanical Design Engineer
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The Mechanical Design Engineer leads mechanical design and integration for complex hardware platforms from concept through production release. The role owns key mechanical deliverables, resolves issues, and ensures designs meet performance, quality, cost, manufacturability, and serviceability requirements. Candidates should bring mechanical design and development experience, expertise in relevant engineering methods, and the ability to lead technical execution and collaborate across teams.
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Job Description
The Mechanical Engineer is responsible for leading mechanical design and integration for complex hardware platforms from concept through production release. This role owns key mechanical deliverables, drives issue resolution, and ensures designs meet performance, quality, cost, manufacturability, and serviceability requirements.
Skills and Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related technical field; Master’s degree preferred. 5–10 years of relevant experience in mechanical design and development of electronics or complex hardware products. Strong expertise in CAD, tolerance analysis, structural investigation, and release management for mechanical components and assemblies. Experience working with manufacturing, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to deliver products into production. Familiarity with server, storage, networking, or rack-level hardware platforms is required. Strong problem-solving skills and proven ability to lead technical execution in a fast-paced environment. Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence project direction through technical leadership.
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 729 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$92–135K/yr20 salary ranges
- US median$40–54/hr69 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 48 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs in Texas and 729 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- SpaceX7 open
- Insight Global (this employer)5 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Mechanical Design Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (626 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 442 of the 729 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs (61%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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