Lead Mechanical Engineer

10 years exp

**Roles & Responsibilities**

**About Us**:
Are you interested in changing the lives of 1 billion people?

Zimplistic is the invention story of our times. Rotimatic, our flagship product, has powered a traditional manual culinary method with next gen technology and innovation. It is a flatbread making platform, the first kitchen robot.

Rotimatic has an addressable market of approximately $16bn, covering geographies that have south Asian diaspora, India, and other wrap and flatbread markets like South America and Middle east.

We have scaled many peaks in the last 10 years -product readiness, manufacturing for mass run, 60,000+ customers, IOT manifested among others.

**About the Role**:
We are currently looking for a Lead Mechanical Engineer to join our R&D Team. As part of the mechanical engineering team, you will be responsible for performing design and analysis to support research and development of our products. You will lead concept phase, design activities, reviews and reports design’s progress.

**Responsibilities**:

- Planning and developing overall system architecture and mechanical timeline for the project.
- Define and deliver new technologies to be incorporated into products
- Develop modular approach to hardware design and architecture
- Analyze, select and implement product architectural design options
- Own complex system designs or problems and make technical decisions for the team
- Demonstrate leadership skill to influence and lead mechanical team during product development and issues resolution
- Proactively assess the technical risks and resolve the design issues by providing reliable solutions
- Ensure quality is built into designs and driven through product development
- Deliver project based on planned cost, schedule and quality
- Develop test methodology, experimentation, prototype to verify design.
- Work in close support of the marketing department in the analysis of customer need (VOC) and in the development of product specifications.
- Work with manufacturing team to support injection molding, gear design, machining, sheet metal and assembly
- Participate in other aspects of the product development such as : solving manufacturing issues, product performance, repair issues, product improvements, and value engineering
- Work cross-functionally with internal team and other core disciplines (EE, Firmware, Software, Marketing)
- Support in the implementation of the architecture tools and process to maximize the efficiency of the mechanical engineering team
- Mentor and coach senior and junior engineers on project basis

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of 10- 12 years of relevant professional experience in mechanical design.
- Knowledge of mechanical engineering design principles and practice
- Experience in designing complex mechanisms, such as clutches, gear trains, cams, and linkages.
- Selection of electro-mechanical components such as motors, power transmission and sensors.
- Strong in design conceptualization and analysis
- Expertise in the design of plastic, sheet metal, gear design, die-cast parts, rubber, electro-mechanical & mechanism parts/assemblies
- Fluent in SolidWorks CAD software or/and FEA
- Sound knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
- Knowledge of Design of Experiments and Six Sigma
- Competence with analytical techniques such as Design for Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Design for Assembly, Design for Manufacturing, and Pugh Matrix is desired.

**About Us**:
We take on problems that have never been solved before, like automating flatbreads that are made by hand for centuries at the click of a button. This should either scare or get you super excited.

Many companies before us tried and failed in solving this problem because we are perhaps a bit crazy and super multidisciplinary in our problem-solving approach.

Engineering at Zimplistic is mission-driven, fast-paced, and always stretches you to grow and get better. For us, this is the definition of fun.