Staff Mechanical Engineer, Equipment Development
About our group:
The Equipment Development Engineering group (EDE) of Seagate Technology is expanding the team! We welcome aspiring Automation Alchemist Enthusiasts to check out this awesome opportunity!
Our vision is to innovate and develop advanced, intelligent, automated manufacturing equipment solutions that can sense, analyze, make smart decisions, and learn by themselves.The EDE is a fully integrated equipment development team; we design and develop precision and fully automated assembly equipment and vision inspection machines. The team is made up of a strongly cohesive high performing team of design talents with a diversity of talents specialized in mechanical, embedded systems, electrical, software, and vision disciplines.We strive to constantly incorporate IIOT, AI, machine learning image, and data analytics solutions into all our development, enabling our equipment to realize factory smart intelligence, thus creating a high-tech future-ready Physical AI plant.
We seek dedicated, motivated, and creative talented teammates, who take up the new automation directives to provide turnkey solutions, integrating functionality, automation & intelligence for Drive Assembly, Drive Test, Heads, Media Manufacture Automation & Enterprise Data Solutions.Many of our designs have won a variety of innovation awards, and patents on both the Company and International levels. We welcome any interested candidates that possess this mindset to embark on this exciting journey in challenging the future roadmaps.
About the role - you will:
- Define mechanical architecture, design principles, platform strategies, and technical roadmaps for complex automation equipment or critical technology domains.
- Lead conceptual development and technical trade studies for high-risk, high-value, or strategically important programs.
- Serve as the escalation point for critical mechanical, system-integration, reliability, and equipment-performance issues.
- Guide multidisciplinary teams through requirements, architecture, risk management, design reviews, verification, qualification, and deployment decisions.
- Establish and govern mechanical engineering standards, reusable modules, design checklists, analysis methods, and technical review practices.
- Identify, evaluate, and mature emerging technologies that improve capability, precision, throughput, reliability, safety, sustainability, or cost.
- Lead cross-project root-cause investigations and eliminate systemic failure modes through platform-level corrective actions.
- Influence capital, make-buy, supplier, technology, and lifecycle decisions through clear technical and business analysis.
- Build strong technical networks across functions, sites, suppliers, and external technology partners.
- Mentor senior and junior engineers, develop subject-matter experts, and raise the organization’s technical decision quality.
- Represent mechanical engineering in strategic program reviews and communicate complex issues, options, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Capture and transfer knowledge to enable standardization, replication, and effective deployment across equipment programs or sites.
About you:
- Deep expertise in one or more mechanical engineering domains and broad understanding of system-level equipment integration.
- Strong record of influencing technical decisions across organizational boundaries without relying on formal authority.
- Ability to connect engineering decisions to business impact, lifecycle risk, investment priorities, and operational outcomes.
- Willingness to travel as required to support business operations and project needs.
Your experience includes:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and technical documentation.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work in a cross-functional engineering environment.
- Typically 8–15+ years of relevant experience in advanced mechanical design, precision automation, capital equipment, or manufacturing technology.
- Demonstrated leadership of complex multidisciplinary programs or multiple related equipment projects.