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SalaryEnphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 68 million products installed across more than 145 countries.
We are building teams that are designing, developing, and manufacturing next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.
If you are passionate about advancing a more sustainable future, this is the perfect time to join Enphase!
About the role
In this role, you will be part of a talented team working together to envision and design the next generation of portable energy storage.
In this role, you will be part of a talented team working together to envision and design the next generation of portable energy storage.
What will you do
- Define requirements and generate design specifications for items integral to Enphase products.
- Perform quality analysis and integrate results into details of design and development of mechanical components and subassemblies.
- Utilize internal and standardized design tools including SolidWorks and similar mechanical simulation/analysis tools.
- Ensure that product mechanical designs meet all functional performance requirements, robustness, and packaging constraints.
- Monitor and manage overseas suppliers to ensure that components meet quality standards and product launch schedule.
- Be responsible for group task scheduling and task organization of detail designed components, subassemblies, and final assemblies of internal products.
- Manage the product development lifecycles from concept to launch with cross-functional teams.
- Provide regular and critical project updates and identify strategies for mitigating execution and schedule risks to design engineering development.
- Define the engineering specifications, conduct DFMEA, and perform design validation tests (DVT).
- Mentor a team of Sr. and Jr. Mechanical Engineers.
Who you are and what you bring
- Masters degree in, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or a related field
- 4+ years of Mechanical Engineering experience as a staff engineer or team lead.
- 3+ years experience using SolidWorks, Catia or similar mechanical CAD application;
- GD&T (geometric dimensioning and tolerancing);
- Kinematic analysis, FEA (finite element analysis), and CFD (computational fluid dynamic) simulation;
- Designing injection molded plastic parts; and inspection for FAI (first article inspection), CER and Cpk dimensions
- Designing sheetmetal parts with bent aluminum
- Experience with failure analysis and corrective action, coupled with experience with manufacturing processes with automotive or high-volume consumer electronics.
- Experience with DFM (Design for Manufacturability)
- Experience with DFA (Design for Assembly)
- Experience with Thermal testing and Thermal simulation analysis is a plus
- Experience with Li-ion batteries is a plus
