design engineer Richmond, CA
Job description
Pegasus Solar is the nation’s fastest growing manufacturer of rooftop solar mounting systems. At Pegasus, you’ll join a fun, dynamic team, passionate about delivering the best products and service to accelerate widespread adoption of rooftop solar.
Founded in 2012, Pegasus works in close partnership with solar installers and manufacturing experts to design and engineer systems that are better at every step. We strive to provide installers with a better day on the job – and homeowners a better product for life. If you’re driven to help improve the future of solar, we might just be able to offer you a better career too.
Product Design Engineer:
As a Product Design Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design, testing, and scale-up of new and next-gen products. You’ll work directly with customers on rooftops and with our Applications Team to understand functionality requirements in order to develop new products and refine existing designs. You’ll work with our Supply Chain team and directly with our suppliers globally to design for manufacturability followed by scaling up mass production. With strong leadership skills, technical acumen, and attention to detail you can help us improve the solar installation process and accelerate the adoption of solar.
The position is based at our headquarters in Richmond, CA, with flexibility to work remotely.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and refine product solutions for the residential solar market by defining requirements, generating concepts, determining evaluation metrics, building or procuring concept prototypes, evaluating concept functionality, down selecting, and iterating
- Collaborate closely with our test engineering team - testing preliminary concepts, design evaluation, determining new solutions
- Nurture new concepts within the lab from ideation through to high-volume production
- Track and demonstrate that your designs meet the product requirements that you help define
- Validating design changes with testing or modeling data
- Executing first article inspection of products, in conjunction with suggesting and documenting changes needed
- Analyze components for optimization and to ensure functionality (FEA, tolerance analysis, DFX, etc.)
- Provide technical feedback to other design engineers
- Identify cost-down opportunities in existing products
- Design and documentation control for new and existing products
- Implement continuous improvements and best practices with the team
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field
- 3+ years in a mechanical engineering and product design role
- Experience designing products for high-volume production (extrusions, stampings, die-castings, injection molding, etc.)
- Capable with math, computational analysis, FEA, FMEA, DFM, PLM
- Proficiency in Solidworks
- Proficiency in Arena is a plus
- Working knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
- Creative capacity for developing new ways to do things better, cheaper, faster
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with internal and external teams
- Mandarin or Spanish speaking is a plus
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $115,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Relocation assistance
- Vision insurance
Experience level:
- 3 years
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
COVID-19 considerations:
All employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19
Application Question(s):
- Are you willing and able to go on residential rooftops (with proper safety equipment) to trial and observe new products?
Education:
- Bachelor's (Required)
Work Location: In person
