Staff Engineer-Mechanical

Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 80 million products installed across more than 160 countries.

We are building teams that are designing, developing, and manufacturing next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.

If you are passionate about advancing a more sustainable future, this is the perfect time to join Enphase!

About the role:

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Mechanical Engineer to join our India-based team. You will lead the mechanical design and testing of modules for Energy Storage Batteries,System Controllers, Accessories, and IoT-based products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop electro-mechanical products using polymers, metals, and rubbers, interfacing with PCBs and high-power components.
• Plan, perform, analyze, and report design verification testing (DVT) using both in-house and external labs and preparing high quality reports
• Investigate and resolve field failures and identify cost-reduction opportunities.

What you will do:

• Design, Validation and Testing of new Electromechanical products sometimes as sole contributor and often as part of a team of contributors.
• Work with Cross functional team and provide quick solutions ensuring quality
• Manage assigned mechanical projects, adhering to project timelines, budget constraints, and quality standards.
• Perform day-to-day tasks like Design Concepts and documentation, CAD (3D & 2D) activities, Testing and reports, DoE, CAPA, 8D, DFMEA etc
• In-depth knowledge on Design Principles and good understanding of Design for Manufacture (DFM) of parts made through injection moulding, sheet metal, stamping, Casting, milling/turning etc
• Product design & testing (DVT) , Testing proof-of-concepts and prototypes for performance
• Coordinate and Preparing mechanical mock-ups, Prototypes, Electro-mechanical assemblies, Cable Assemblies
• Design and execute comprehensive test plans (Inhouse and external lab) to verify mechanical performance against design specifications, including static and dynamic loading, fatigue testing, environmental testing, and reliability testing. Analyze test data, identify potential issues, and implement design improvements
• Failure analysis and root cause identification

Who you are and what you bring:

• Bachelor's Degree (or higher qualification) in Mechanical Engineering. Candidates holding Masters in Product Design from IISc/Postgraduate on Tool Engineering/Tool Design/Product Design from NTTF/GTTC or ME in Design/Thermal is a plus
• 8+ years (with BE / BS) or 6+ years (with Masters) of industry work experience in product design, development & testing.
• Ability to plan, lead and drive the Design and DVT tasks and activities independently with minimal supervision/oversight.
• Experience in SolidWorks and EPDM. Knowledge on any other CAD packages will be an added advantage.
• Hands on is preparing mechanical mock-ups, Prototypes, Electro-mechanical assemblies, Cable Assemblies and test sample preparation
• Hands on Experience on Design & testing Electromechanical products
• Hands on Experience on plastics, Sheetmetal, casting part design and manufacturing process
• Good understanding on cable assemblies, ECAD/MCAD integrations
• Good exposure on structural and thermal design considerations
• Experienced on DFX for high volume production. Experience in the design and sustaining activities on high-volume products (+500k pa) would be a plus and also previous employment in high-power and consumer products industries would be a plus.
• Good exposure on prototype techniques for Design development and verification
• Exposure to electrical and electronic testing with knowledge on thermocouple instrumenting and connecting to Data logging equipment for capturing test data.
• Knowledge of DFMEA and DFR would be an added advantage.
• Good exposure on UL/IEC and related standards. Experience on UL1741, IL9540, UL 9540A will be an added advantage.
• Experience in testing below international standards is desirable (but not limited to).
  • Inverters UL 1741, Electrical connectors UL 6703, UL 9703, EN 60512, EN 60352; Polymers UL 94, UL 746C.
  • Ingress protection IEC 60529/IPXX/NEMA Enclosure standards
• Exposure on CAE tools is an added advantage.
• Clear communication - verbal and written