What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Mechanical and Project Engineer, Instrumentation position at CSBio?
Looking for a role where you can work with a great team, and work with products that make a difference? Do you love mechanical design, working with others, and managing the lifecycle of a project? Then join us!
CSBio is a leading biotech company in the peptide industry, and for over 30 years has been providing peptide instrumentation to major academic and industry partners through the R&D, clinical, and commercialization phase for pharmaceutical therapeutics. CSBio has delivered more automated pilot and commercial scale peptide synthesizers than any manufacturer in the world, and has systems placed in more than 25 countries.
We are welcoming a Senior Mechanical and Project Engineer to join us at our Mountain View site to support the Instrumentation team, located a few blocks off the N Shoreline Blvd 101 exit. CSBio's instrumentation team builds products that include peptide synthesizers, DNA synthesizers, and LC purification equipment (learn more here: https://www.csbio.com/synthesizer.html).
Only local candidates will be considered. This is a full time on-site role.
The role consists of design activities as an individual contributor including designing and documenting instrumentation against requirements, as well as interacting and working with customers on new product design projects while managing the project from initial conception through the design phase. Job responsibilities include the following:
- Provide product design solutions to meet customer needs through design and preparation of detailed specifications.
- Create and update assembly BOMs, CAD drawings, models, assembly drawings, and other engineering documents.
- Select and identify new components per the required specifications to integrate into our systems, while interfacing with suppliers as required
- Plan and drive product development activities for new products; be the technical lead and interface to external customers while collaborating internally on the project as the technical lead.
- While acting as the mechanical lead and contributing to the mechanical design, take a systems view to integrate hardware, electronics, and software to meet user requirements.
- Collaborate with our manufacturing team on system builds and component fabrication of custom designed parts.
- Collaborate with our software development and electrical engineering team
- Participate in investigations and remediation of quality control activities for our instrumentation
- Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering
- 8 years of relevant experience
- Strong technical, planning, and communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively with teams while pushing the project forward
- Technical skills and ability to drive projects as an engineering individual contributor
- Detail oriented with the ability to take a holistic view of project(s); resourceful and motivated to deliver results
- Appreciates work/life balance, but willing to go the extra mile with a strong work ethic when required
- High potential for growth
- Full time (36 hours/week) paid hourly position with benefits. We work 4.5 days/week (we do not operate on Friday afternoons)
- Annual performance bonus (10% of annual earnings) based on company performance
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Basic life and supplemental life insurance
- 401k with up to 10% matching
- Paid time off / holiday / winter paid shutdown (up to 25 paid days off per year)
- Catered lunches every Monday and Wednesday
- Fitness reimbursement program
