Principal Mechatronics Engineer / Technical Lead
Nordson EFD LLC

Collaboration drives Nordson's success as a market leader in Industrial Precision Solutions and Advanced Technology. Our employees thrive in an environment where we help each other reach our personal best and enable our company to continuously improve and grow, and our customers to succeed. You will find Nordson employees sharing our success by giving back in the communities around the world where we live and work.

From the mobile device in your pocket to the sensors in your car, and even life-saving medical devices, Nordson's technology is used to make products that touch your life every day. Do you want to join a growing team in a market-leading technology company? We're looking for motivated individuals who care about helping our customers succeed. If you value integrity, respect for people, customer passion, energy, and excellence, you'll fit right in to the Nordson culture.

We are looking for a talented Principal Mechatronics Engineer & Tech. Lead to join the Nordson EFD product design team. In this technical leadership role, you will be responsible for conceiving, architecting, and bringing to market electro-mechanical systems for precision fluid dispensing used in advanced manufacturing processes and medical fluid handling. You will work on synthesizing voice of the customers to drive solutions through complex hardware-software implementation that require strong cross functional collaboration, entrepreneurial mindset as well as analytical and data driven approaches to make our products smarter, connected, and intelligent.

How YOU will make an impact:

• Lead new technology evaluations, voice of customer exercises, competitive benchmarking and proof of concept generation for pL and nL level precision fluid dispensing market space.
• Develop product architecture of electromechanical systems that include but not limited to actuators, sensors, control algorithms, integrated data science & digital communication interfaces.
• Interface with customers to demonstrate working prototypes and refine product requirements and capabilities using their feedback.
• Provide technical leadership for an interdisciplinary engineering team to drive new product development from concept to high volume production.
• Create design verification and validation plans, oversee execution of tests, analyze results, debug failures, and support product regulatory compliance certification.

Qualifications To Be Successful:

• 8 years' experience launching electro-mechanical products with actuators, sensors, precision mechanical components, embedded systems, real time control and digital communication interfaces.

• Track record of interdisciplinary technical ownership of firmware/software, electrical and mechanical design team decisions having developed and launched products into production.
• Domain expertise to be an individual contributor in at least one of the following: mechanical, electrical or firmware development while driving high level technical decision of the other core competencies.
• Understanding of mechanical design, mixed signal circuit design and embedded software development principles.
• Start-up or corporate incubator experience a plus.
• Bachelors of Science in Mechanical, Electrical or Computer Engineering.

What We Offer:

• Flexible work hours.
• Starting day 1, your benefits include Medical, Rx, Vision, Dental, Health Savings Account (HSA), 401k (with match AND additional 3% annual company contribution), tuition reimbursement and Life Insurance.
• Annual cash bonus based on personal & company performance.
• In addition to paid time off and paid holidays, each employee receives 16 hours of paid time each calendar year to perform volunteer services in our communities.
• Full-service on-site cafeteria

Working Conditions and Physical Demands: Office environment. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Travel Required: Estimated 20%
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