Hiring: Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Company: Alicat Scientific Location: Greater Tucson Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:54:55 Target Skills & Keywords : AutoCAD, CAD, Firmware, LabVIEW, MATLAB, PLC, Product Management, Python, REST, Root Cause Analysis, Simulink, SolidWorks, Systems Integration About the job Experience: •6+ years designing precision mechanical, fluidic, or electromechanical products, with hardware you took through to production. Required Skills: •As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at Alicat Scientific, you will design and own significant portions of the mechanical hardware that makes our high-precision flow and pressure instrumentation work. You will take designs from concept through detailed design, prototyping, validation, and production release. •The engineer who thrives here is equally comfortable specifying a fit and finish on a drawing and building the model that explains why the design behaves that way. Both halves matter, and most candidates are genuinely strong in only one. •Mechanical fundamentals carry the rest of the work. You will select materials and components, run tolerance stack-ups, produce production-quality models and drawings, design for manufacture, and work directly with our machine shops and suppliers to get prototypes built and iterated quickly. •This is a deeply hands-on individual contributor role. You will spend most of your time designing, analyzing, and testing hardware, and you will be trusted to work independently on problems that are ambiguous at the start. Seniority here means technical depth and ownership of outcomes rather than management responsibility. •Develop new flow measurement and control products, including sensors, proportional valves, flow bodies, laminar flow elements, manifolds, and enclosures, from early-stage concept through production release. •Create production-quality 3D models and detailed drawings in SolidWorks, applying GD&T so that design intent survives the handoff to manufacturing and inspection. •Perform worst-case and statistical tolerance stack-up analysis on assemblies where small dimensional variation drives measurable performance change. •Select materials, seals, springs, fasteners, coatings, and surface treatments for precision, corrosion resistance, cleanliness, and long-term dimensional stability. Compensation: •$100,000 - $150,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!