Product Architect

SILSYNC is looking for a talented, confident, and agile Product Architect to help us design, build, and refine products for our customers.

About your impact
You’ll help SILSYNC achieve its mission of making it easier for hardware developers to build the future. By doing so, you’ll be reimagining how an entire industry operates and increasing its efficiency. From startups to Fortune 100 companies, your work will make it easier for our customers to bring their physical product ideas to market. And, from aerospace to consumer to medical, this work will help improve the lives of people all around the world.

About the role
As a Product Architect, you will help translate customers’ abstract product ideas to detailed specifications and high-level block and functional diagrams which engineers can translate into reality. You’ll also work collaboratively with our design, software, and hardware teams to better understand the problems we are solving for partners, experts, and customers. This position is currently being performed remotely.

Requirements

• Masters degree in electrical or mechanical engineering or a related field
• Understanding of manufacturing processes for mechanical and electrical components and their subcomponents
• Experience with product development from concept through mass-production, including EVT, DVT, and PVT
• Experience with producing and using formal design specifications and documenting processes
• Experience with agile and waterfall project management

Responsibilities

• Proficiency in electrical and mechanical CAD software (ideally Altium and SolidWorks)
• Experience with mechanical design, 3D printing, PCB design, prototyping, and building complex integrated systems as a hobby.
• Understanding of supply chain management and design for manufacturing
• Working with customers to identify and narrow the scope of work for engineering projects which include mechanical, electrical, firmware, and other software components
• Budgeting time and cost for mechatronics projects
• Specifying and selecting electrical and components suitable for production subject to customer requirements
• Working with engineers to satisfy customer requirements and helping them solve their hardest technical challenges
• Working with product/project managers to ensure work is completed on schedule and within budget

About you

You enjoy learning and growing: You believe that every interaction, whether with a customer, colleague, or member of the public is a learning opportunity. Equally important, you enjoy sharing what you’ve learned with others and can do so through excellent verbal and written communication skills. You know that working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment provides new opportunities for growth.

You enjoy solving hard problems: You want to be as deeply immersed in hard problems as possible and seek to truly understand their root cause. To do so, you’re unafraid to work through the most tedious parts of a problem. But, you know that solving hard problems will make a big impact on the outcomes for customers and your career.

You pay attention to details: You are able to keep track of the small details while maintaining a solid grasp of how everything fits into the big picture. You’re able to understand how parts fit together into the whole, even in complex multifaceted assemblies, and you have empathy for your fellow engineers and the end users of the products you help to design and build.

You enjoy working with people: You work well with customers, product managers, and engineers and are comfortable working in frequent meetings with either or both when required.

You’re confident and ambitious: You’re confident in your expertise and experience. This confidence reassures customers who are uncertain about how best to proceed with the engineering of their products. However, this confidence doesn’t cross into the domain of arrogance. You’re also ambitious in the goals you set for yourself and others.