As a Senior Mechanical Engineer (Transducers), you will play a key role in designing innovative ultrasound transducers in a fast-paced environment. This position demands a focus on high-performance products that flawlessly meet the needs of our users. You'll need a strong foundation in mechanical engineering principles, including Design for Excellence (DFX) methodologies, expertise in low to mid-volume manufacturing of intricate electro-acoustic devices, a deep knowledge of materials and their appropriate finishes, thermal management techniques, and the ability to design and implement specialized tooling and fixtures for precise manufacturing. You'll also be responsible for developing and implementing rigorous testing procedures to ensure product quality. You'll leverage your industry experience to provide technical project leadership and guidance. This includes performing physical and statistical analyses, reviewing design specifications to ensure that product requirements are clearly defined and met, analyzing acoustic performance and feedback data to inform design improvements for both mechanical and tooling components, and collaborating with the manufacturing team to translate design improvements into tangible benefits.
Company Overview
FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc. is the innovator and world leader in bedside and point-of-care ultrasound, and an industry leader in ultra-high frequency micro-ultrasound technology. Headquartered near Seattle, the company is represented by a global distribution network in over 100 countries. Sonosite’s portable, compact systems are expanding the use of ultrasound across the clinical spectrum by cost-effectively bringing high-performance ultrasound to the point of patient care.
FUJIFILM Corporation is a subsidiary of FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation. FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, leverages its depth of knowledge and proprietary core technologies to deliver innovative products and services across the globe through the four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging with over 70,000 employees. Guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles,” we address social challenges and create a positive impact on society through our products, services, and business operations. Under its medium-term management plan, VISION2030, which ends in FY2030, we aspire to continue our evolution into a company that creates value and smiles for various stakeholders as a collection of global leading businesses and achieve a global revenue of 4 trillion yen (29 billion USD at an exchange rate of 140 JPY/USD).
Essential Job Functions:
• Design and refinement of complex parts, assemblies, and tooling using SolidWorks.
• Use of analysis and simulation to optimize thermal and structural design solutions.
• Verification and documentation of the designs through confidence testing and performance demonstration.
• Leading technical projects by facilitating design reviews and successfully guiding them through a structured phase gate-process, ensuring timely transfer to our in-house manufacturing teams and adherence to quality standards.
• Develop injection molded housings and acoustic lensing design and methodology for various transducers. Design tooling jigs and fixtures for repeatable results in manufacturing. Lamination tooling and stack assembly tooling to support current and new transducer array architectures.
• Become a key resource in configuration management, bill of materials (BOM), and control of New Product Introduction (NPI) transducers and Sustaining projects using Oracle Agile PLM software and develop strategies for optimum implementation.
• Tracking daily progress of samples/experiments and providing accurate updates and creating/maintaining a central spreadsheet. Producing reports and assessments of tooling and/or fixture related improvements to yields and results in production and/or prototype environments.
• Improving the thermal efficiency of new and/or existing transducers.
• Maintaining the lab efficiency, test equipment and supplies in an orderly and professional manner.
• Responsible and accountable for carrying out the requirements of the company's quality management system.
• Interact with members of the Ultrasound Systems engineering or other associated groups as necessary for transducer related issues.
Knowledge and Experience:
• B.S. Mechanical engineering, M.S. or PhD in related engineering discipline preferred.
• 7-10 years of product development experience, with at least five years designing electro-mechanical devices or a similar type of FDA regulated medical device strongly preferred.
• Proven experience in leading technical projects using internal or external contract resources.
• In-depth knowledge of mechanical tolerance analysis and Designed Experiment techniques.
• Expert know-how with SolidWorks, with surfacing experience of hand-held products preferred.
• Simulation experience using SolidWorks Simulation, ANSYS, Abaqus, or other software packages for thermal and structural/stress analysis.
• Experience integrating compact mechanical assemblies that include electronics and adhesive sealed injection molded enclosures preferred.
• Experience in thermal management of compact, highly integrated devices preferred.
Skills/Abilities:
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to a technical audience.
• Self-driven, organized, and good with time management.
• Project management skills.
• Ability to thrive in a diverse, cross-functional environment.
• Ability to lift 25 pounds, with or without accommodations.
• Domestic and limited international travel may be required, < 10%.