Senior Mechanical Engineering- System Design

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Austin, TX · On-site

PulseForge builds pulsed-light manufacturing systems for electronics, semiconductor, energy, and advanced-materials production. Our systems create process windows that conventional thermal tools cannot reach, enabling customers to manufacture in ways that were previously not possible. We’re at the forefront of advanced manufacturing.

Our next step is scaling the platform: larger process areas, higher throughput, tighter uniformity, continuous operation, and production-grade reliability. Mechanical engineering sits at the center of that work.

We are hiring a senior mechanical engineer to help design the next generation of the platform and to establish how mechanical systems are developed, released, and maintained as we scale.

This role carries broad technical ownership: the architecture, the design decisions, and the release calls, with visibility into the business context that shapes them. You will work with a small team, move quickly from concept to hardware, and see your designs operating in customer production environments.

You will design across the mechanical architecture of the platform: machined structures, high-voltage packaging, production racks, lamp heads, and quartz optics. You will also own precision mechanisms, cooling and fluid systems, web and conveyor handling, and the hardware that integrates our systems into customer production lines.

You will work from physics and architecture through drawings, suppliers, assembly, test, field performance, and the next revision. This is not a design-only role.

Mechanical subsystems from architecture through production release and sustaining.

• The approach, the materials, the suppliers, and the release decision.
• The mechanical practices we adopt: drawing standards, review depth, and configuration control.
• Close, deep collaboration with electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, and supply chain.
• S. in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent technical depth.
• Strong 3D CAD. SolidWorks, NX, or Creo translate.
• Mechanical fundamentals applied in practice: statics, dynamics, materials, heat transfer, machine design, fasteners, structures, tolerancing, and manufacturability.
• Design for manufacturability, assembly, serviceability, and cost, including scaling from prototype to production.
• Hands-on experience building, testing, modifying, and troubleshooting hardware.
• Clear communication about tradeoffs, risk, cost, schedule, performance, and release decisions.
• High-voltage or power electronics packaging.
• Thermal management, closed-loop cooling, heat exchangers, chillers, or fluid systems.
• Precision or alignment-sensitive assemblies, optics-adjacent hardware, quartz, or lamp-head assemblies.
• Web handling, conveyor systems, or roll-to-roll equipment.
• Semiconductor or industrial capital equipment installed into customer fabs, factories, or production lines.
• Autodesk Vault or similar PDM; BOM management, ECO/ECR, and configuration control.
• FEA, CFD, thermal simulation, GD&T, and tolerance stack analysis.
• You get from rough requirements to a defensible mechanical architecture without waiting for every input to be defined.
• You have debugged problems that cross mechanical, thermal, fluidic, electrical, optical, and controls boundaries.
• You understand how designs fail when they scale: tolerance stackups, assembly variation, supplier capability, service access, and configuration control.
• You leave the engineering system better than you found it: cleaner drawings, better reviews, faster root cause, fewer repeated mistakes.

Location and Travel

On-site. Travel is typically less than 5%.

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