Mechanical Engineer

Job Posting Start Date 07-16-2025 Job Posting End Date 08-17-2025

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Mechanical Engineer located in California Milpitas.

Reporting to the Director, Engineering Services, the Mechanical Engineer is responsible for designing, validating, and implementing innovative and cost-effective product solutions of complex scope to support the organization in prototype development through full-scale production.

What a typical day looks like:

• Designing and implementing automation equipment.
• Developing project specifications by studying product design, customer requirements, and performance standards.
• Know and understand the project scope, specifications, and any regulatory requirements that are applicable to the machine being developed.
• Performing detailed mathematical calculations to establish manufacturing and installation standards and specifications.
• Coordinate with and consult automation engineers to design, lay out, detail components on new and existing equipment.
• Work with automation engineers to help debug interactions between mechanical, electrical, and software systems.
• Attend meetings, including project status and review meetings, and acceptance meetings.
• Assessing project requirements and researching to meet those requirements.
• Ensuring a product can be made reliably and will perform consistently in specified operating environments.
• Design of mechanical fixtures, adapters, and custom equipment.
• Testing, evaluating, modifying, and re-testing the designed hardware.
• Writing reports, bill of materials, installation drawings and technical documentation.
• Communicate and interface with engineers, designers, and operations managers.
• Deploying systems at customer facilities and gathering requirements.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

•  Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Material science background
• 3 years of experience in a Mechanical Engineering role.
• CMM equipment (Zeiss and OGP), Strain Gauge using Site tester, X-Ray and Micro CT analysis, shadow moiré, and reliability chambers (Halt/Hass chamber, Temp/Humidity chamber, IPX).
• Maintained great collaboration with customers from requests to report discussion
• Write technical reports independently
• Execute reliability and failure analysis tests
• Use CAD software to create useful fixturing for the lab or for customer
• 3D printing parts
• Lead ISO/IEC 17025 2017 certification in the lab
• Maintaining now ISO/IEC 17025 2017 per quality manual
• Create procedures for the Lab Quality Manual for the ISO 17025 certification
• Participate Lab Gemba walks with the team
• Takes care of maintenance and PM of the tools
• Execute Lab Roadmap, Capex equipment acquisition
• Support section for Site Monthly newsletter
• Utilize Six sigma methodologies

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What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Pay Range (Applicable to California)

$91,900.00 USD - $126,400.00 USD Annual

Job Category

Design, Process & Technology Engineering

Relocation: Not eligible

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. We do not discriminate based on: age, race, rel