Great Company Seeking Mechanical Engineer
About Us
We are a fun, fast-growing company that conceives, designs, develops, markets, and supports specialized manufacturing equipment for customers that make medical balloon catheters and stents. Our equipment has unique precision mechanisms and electronic control systems. We don’t have sales people; the engineers do it all.
At Blockwise we try to foster a culture of growth and development. We encourage everyone to contribute at a high level and to take pride in the work we do together. We genuinely want everyone here to feel invested in the company. Some of the many benefits of working at Blockwise include competitive pay, 401k matching, bi-annual bonuses, work your own hours, fully-stocked company kitchen, company gym, use of company resources (tools, machine shop, truck, etc.), and really great co-workers.

About You
We are looking for an experienced senior engineer who is comfortable leading teams as well as contributing individually. Although we prefer a workplace without official hierarchy, there is plenty of room for leadership and pay advancement here. We are looking for creative, enthusiastic, productive people with solid analytical fundamentals. If you need a well-defined or limited job function, or if you are simply a people-manager, then this is the wrong place.
If you excel at many of these activities and can prove it, then we’d like to talk to you:
- Leading teams of engineers and technicians to develop manufacturing machines from concept through production
- Technical leadership, project management, motivation and organizational leadership
- Applying quantitative engineering analysis to electrical, mechanical, fluid, and software systems
- Devising and using mathematical models of machine functions
- Understanding and incorporating many levels of requirements, function, and value
- Working with customers to understand their needs and guide them to the best solution
- Processing customer product samples and documenting results
- Working with a manufacturing team to ensure that orders are shipped on-time
- Training and working with assemblers to refine production methods
- Documenting machines with bills-of-materials, assembly drawings and procedures, manuals, inspection sheets, test procedures, etc.
- Designing and refining mechanical parts for low-cost manufacturing with various mfg methods
- Creating mechanical designs using Solidworks software
- Selecting the best materials and manufacturing methods
- Documenting parts with drawings and specifications
- Meeting with customers for demonstrations and presentations
- Providing telephone and email technical support to customers
- Preparing quotations for customers
- Shopping for off-the-shelf parts
- Designing electrical systems and creating electrical schematics
- Designing control systems with PLCs and embedded microcontrollers
- Writing software for machine control and operator interface (typically microcontroller or PLC)
- Designing circuit boards for special control and electronic functions
- Making parts in a machine shop
- Working with machinists and fabricators to design for quality and cost
- Selecting and working closely with suppliers of make-to-print parts
- Dreaming up new mechanisms
- Quickly prototyping, testing, and proving concepts
- Assembling prototype machines
- Testing machines and processes and using statistical methods
- Analyzing costs to make decisions about manufacturing and pricing
- Analyzing markets to make decisions about product development and pricing
- Influencing product development strategy and business strategy
- Driving projects to completion, with thorough refinement and documentation