Lead Mechanical Design Engineer

Location:  Flexible (Sydney) - This role offers the flexibility to work from home, within proximity to an office location. 

The Role 

GoPro is seeking a top-tier Lead Mechanical Design Engineer to join their innovative engineering team developing tech-enabled motorcycle helmets trackside at Sydney Motorsport Park. The role is hybrid between remote work and office, ensuring you will work closely with the world-class team designing, engineering and testing helmet technology at our headquarters, while providing the work-life balance of some days of remote work. 

You will work from the early stages of the product, contributing your expert engineering knowledge to concept development, feasibility analysis, prototype development, engineering validation and design for manufacture. 

While not directly managing other engineers, this role requires technical leadership, managing vendors and projects independently. You will work closely with internal and external partners to generate all necessary documentation and test plans to confirm product(s) meet specification. In addition, you’ll ensure product features achieve cost, schedule, reliability, thermal and regulatory/safety goals. The ideal candidate should have thorough ability to use state-of-the-art CAD and analysis tools to create mechanical designs, primarily consisting of injection-molded plastic, stamped sheet-metal, and die-cast component assemblies for high-volume mass production. 

The role requires an engineer with exceptional interpersonal skills to contribute to cross-disciplinary decision making around complicated product functions. The ideal candidate is a generous contributor to their team and a great collaborator outside of it. 

What You Will Do 

• Drive and support the mechanical architecture, development and analysis for new products 

• Be responsible for the overall design, analysis, documentation and functional validation of mechanical components and assemblies 

• Conduct and participate in mechanical engineering evaluation and test to validate the robustness and proper performance of new products 

• Collaborate with internal and external teams (i.e. suppliers, partners, ID, PDM, manufacturing, operations, quality, tooling, etc.) to ensure the successful development and launch of new products 

• Contribute to the development of mechanical tooling and production part qualification (i.e. first-article inspections, manufacturing process capabilities (Cp/Cpk), measurement gage repeatability and reproducibility (GR&R), material certifications, etc.) 
• Mentor and provide support to mechanical and cross functional team members

• Utilize best-in-class tools to develop innovative mechanical solutions to highly complex problems

Skills We’re Excited About 

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar 

• 12+ years of relevant experience in mechanical and/or product design development 

• A solid understanding of Lean and Agile processes for hardware products 

• Experience engineering within a highly regulated industry 

• Thorough knowledge and experience utilizing CAD modeling tools 

• Extensive experience with injection molded plastic design 

• Experience creating MCOs for PCB/FPC design and working directly with EE team members 

• Effective management of engineering projects both internally and with 3rd parties 

• Strong knowledge of geometric dimensioning and tolerencing and performing statistical tolerance analysis 

• Skilled communicator, able to move between spoken, written and visual communication with ease 

• Ability to handle various projects simultaneously in a productive and timely manner 

• Ability to work cross-functionally with strong interpersonal skills 

• Willingness to travel internationally 
   

Bonus Points For 

• Enthusiasm for and/or experience in automotive engineering 

• Expertise designing manufacturable plastic parts with organic 3D geometry and class-A surfaces 

• Competence in Siemens NX and Teamcenter 

• Experience designing FEA, CDM and thermal simulations, and designing around the results 

• Experience working on wearable products, particularly head-mounted 

• Experience with acoustic products 

• Experience designing products which include carbon fibre and/or fabrics 

Why Work With Us? 

Create your own destiny. GoPro enables you and trusts you to get your own job done, because we believe that autonomy in role brings out the best in our employees. 

Live your best life. We’ve adopted remote and flexible work arrangements to support work at GoPro alongside our commitment to supporting employee wellbeing, belonging and connection with one another. 

Work with leading edge technologies. We encourage employees to cultivate and use the latest and greatest technology, to provide the best solutions to serve our customers. We celebrate creative solutions that bring innovation to GoPro technology. 

GoPro Highlights 

• Get your very own GoPro camera + gear; 

• Superannuation fund 

• Competitive salary and discretionary annual performance-related bonus 

• LiveHealthy monthly wellness reimbursement 

• Monthly phone and internet reimbursement 

• Wellness programs including 1:1 Coaching, 1:1 Therapy sessions, and mental health resources 

• Innovative remote-friendly wellness classes and events 

• Flexible work arrangements 

• International Travel Assistance 

• Professional + personal development opportunities, i.e. LinkedIn Learning, technology trainings, certifications, Peer-to-Peer learning, conferences and more 

• Opportunities to get involved in the causes that you care about (annual camera donation + volunteer events) 

We are committed to creating a more equal, inclusive and just world. GoPro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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