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Manager, CAD & Design Systems

Mainspring Energy 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America

$180,000 - $210,000 Full-time Manager

Set the strategy for CAD operations, product definition, design integration, release, and configuration management, while leading and developing the CAD Operations and Product Definition & Integration teams. Improve engineering workflows, product-definition quality, release speed, and configuration integrity, and represent Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with enterprise software and downstream teams.

Responsibilities

  • Set the strategy for CAD operations, product definition, design integration, release, and configuration management, while leading and developing the CAD Operations and Product Definition & Integration teams. Improve engineering workflows, product-definition quality, release speed, and configuration integrity, and represent Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with enterprise software and downstream teams.

Requirements

  • Requires a bachelor's or master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or a related field (or equivalent experience), at least 10 years of relevant experience, and 3 or more years leading technical teams. Candidates should have deep production CAD experience, strong knowledge of drawings, GD&T, BOMs, engineering changes, configuration control, and manufacturing handoffs, with CATIA or another enterprise large-assembly platform preferred.

Benefits

  • Pre-IPO Stock Options
  • Benefits

Key Skills

CAD strategy Product definition Design integration Release management Configuration management Mechanical engineering CATIA GD&T BOM management Engineering change management Manufacturing hand‑offs Team leadership Process improvement Collaboration with software teams Technical documentation

About Mainspring Energy

Mainspring is a power generator manufacturer redefining how local power is delivered to capacity constrained companies and communities. No other primary power solution can match the flexibility, affordability, and low emissions of a Mainspring Linear Generator. Mainspring customers across key industries — utilities, data centers, enterprise, and industrial — are taking control of their energy futures.

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