Senior Engineer, Mechanical Design - 5G Radio

Mavenir is building the future of networks and pioneering advanced technology, focusing on the vision of a single, software-based automated network that runs on any cloud. As the industry's only end-to-end, cloud-native network software provider, Mavenir is transforming the way the world connects, accelerating software network transformation for 250+ Communications Service Providers in over 120 countries, which serve more than 50% of the world’s subscribers.

Role Summary

Design, develop and implement technical projects for the fabrication, modification and evaluation of new or existing hardware systems or components. Projects may involve exploration of products and/or process problems, definition and selection of new concepts and approaches, origination or modification of material, component and process specifications and requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Design responsibility of variety of mechanical components of Base Station radios, including aluminum die casted, machined, sheet metal and injection molded parts.
• Actively participate to the overall product electromechanical architecture design covering the entire product assembly, including brackets
• Implementation of industrial design in harmony with product requirements
• Packaging design
• Thermal analysis & Thermal testing
• Experience with static and dynamic structural analysis, solder joint / lead fatigue analysis, thermal analysis (passive and active cooling) and mechanical tolerance analysis.
• Technical contact and support for suppliers on DFM and technical issues.
• Support manufacturing fixturing development.
• Support to achieve environmental and safety compliance.
• In-depth knowledge on design rules for various materials and manufacturing processes
• Collaborate with electrical designers, layout engineers and project management to define and align the physical and electrical requirements.
• Conduct design reviews with relevant team members.
• Experience with high reliability of electronic component selection and design for reliability.
• Generation of manufacturing documentation for vendors
• Completion of the projects as per plan in time with quality
• Creation and maintenance of component libraries and modular design structures.
• Perform cost analysis and optimization.
• Establishment and on-going improvement of best practices (e.g., design rules, tools) to achieve quality metrics.
• Provide guidance and mentoring.
• Experienced in various technologies in product design, including but not limited to Machined part design, sheet metal parts, Plastic injection molding, die casting, rapid prototyping and material and finish selection.
• Must understand the complete product development lifecycle, capture requirements, and provide technical guidance and decisions.
• Experience in detailed development and COTS selection of power and analog/control electronic printed circuit boards, connectors, modules, chassis, heat sink and mechanical fasteners.
• Proven track record from mechanical design of telecom radios.
• Excellent understanding of mechanical manufacturing processes, including aluminon die casting, sheet metal and injection molded plastics.
• Experience in requirements capture for printed circuit board (PCB) layout, and electrical interconnect design.
• Experience in Mechanical Chassis design (End-to-End) for Rugged/Sheet metal LRU and test equipment.
• Experience in Heat Sink Design, Fan Selection, Component and System level cooling.
• Experience in EMC and signal cross talk optimized mechanical design.
• Experience in Telecom standard IEC 60068-2-1 is required.
• Experience with design tools, e.g., SolidWorks and FloTHERM & FloTHERM XT.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience supporting design fit checks during integration and test at the module, sub-system, and system level.

Job Requirements

• BE/B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

At least 10+ years’ experience

Accessibility

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