Product Design Engineer

Pegasus Solar is the nation’s fastest growing manufacturer of rooftop solar mounting systems, with products deployed on over 180,000 buildings. At Pegasus, you’ll join a fun, dynamic team, passionate about delivering the best products and service to accelerate widespread adoption of solar.

Founded in 2012, Pegasus works in close partnership with solar installers and manufacturing experts to design and engineer systems that are better at every step. We strive to provide installers with a better day on the job – and system owners a better product for life. If you’re driven to help accelerate the future of solar, we might just be able to offer you a better career too.

Product Design Engineer:

As a Product Design Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design, testing, and scale-up of new and next-gen products. You’ll work directly with customers on jobsites and with our Applications Team to understand functionality requirements in order to develop new products and refine existing designs. You’ll work with our Supply Chain team and directly with our suppliers globally to design for manufacturability followed by scaling up mass production. With strong leadership skills, technical acumen, and attention to detail you can help us improve the solar installation process and accelerate the adoption of solar.

The position is based at our headquarters in Richmond, CA, with flexibility to work remotely up to 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

Be a key contributor developing and refining product solutions for the solar market by defining requirements, generating concepts, determining evaluation metrics, building or procuring concept prototypes, evaluating concept functionality, down selecting, and iterating.

Collaborate closely with our test engineering team - testing preliminary concepts, design evaluation, determining new solutions.

Manage multiple design projects simultaneously.

Nurture new concepts within the lab from ideation through to high-volume production.

Track and demonstrate that your designs meet the product requirements that you help define.

Validating design changes with testing or modeling data.

Executing first article inspection of products, in conjunction with suggesting and documenting changes needed.

Analyze components for optimization and to ensure functionality (FEA, tolerance analysis, DFX, etc.).

Provide technical feedback to other design engineers.

Identify cost-down opportunities in existing products.

Design and documentation control for new and existing products.

Implement continuous improvements and best practices with the team

Minimum qualifications

B. S. or higher in mechanical engineering

5+ years in a mechanical engineering and product design role

Highly proficient designing products for high-volume production (extrusions, stampings, die-castings, injection molding, etc.)

Experience with prototyping, Design for Assembly (DFA) and Design for Manufacturability (DFM)

Comfortable with basic hand tools such as drills, impact drivers and torque wrenches

Experience and willingness to be hands-on during the product development process

Capable with math, computational analysis, FEA, FMEA, PLM

Proficiency in Solidworks

Ability to work independently driving design concepts through to mass production

Proficiency in Arena is a plus

Ability to create high quality engineering drawings and a thorough knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)

Creative capacity for developing new ways to do things better, cheaper, faster

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with internal and external teams

Mandarin or Spanish speaking is a plus