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Mill is a waste prevention technology company reimagining what it means to eliminate waste, starting with food. We build smart systems and infrastructure for homes, businesses, and municipalities that transform food scraps from landfill-bound waste into valuable resources, including chicken feed. Tens of thousands of Mill’s residential food recyclers are already helping households divert millions of pounds of food scraps every year, paving the way for our upcoming launch of Mill Commercial—the industry’s first end-to-end solution for managing, understanding, and preventing food waste in commercial environments (e.g. grocery, restaurants, food services). At Mill, we are passionate about building easy-to-use, beautifully designed technologies that keep food in the food system and out of landfills.
Role Description:
As a member of Mill's Product Design Engineering team you will own the mechanical integration of camera and imaging systems into Mill's hardware products. You will work closely with other members of the PD team as well as cross-functional groups including Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, Reliability, Firmware, Product Management, and Operations to bring a world-class vision system to life inside a demanding real-world environment.
Objectives of this role:
- Own the mechanical integration of camera module from concept through mass production
- Partner with EE and firmware teams to define camera mounting requirements, thermal management strategies, and cable routing solutions
- Generate detailed CAD models, specifications, and documentation for camera assemblies and associated mechanical components
- Prototype, test, and analyze camera sub-system designs to validate image quality, environmental robustness, and long-term reliability
- Perform tolerance analysis and define alignment strategies to meet image quality targets
- Perform root cause analysis of performance failures and drive corrective actions
- Work directly with the supply chain and contract manufacturers to ensure camera assemblies are properly manufactured and assembled at scale
Qualifications:
- BS degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience in mechanical product design, with at least 2 years directly involving camera or imaging system integration
- Experience designing camera systems for harsh or contaminated environments strongly preferred
- Consumer Electronics, Home Appliance, or IoT hardware industry experience preferred
- Expertise in CAD modeling; experience with NX preferred
- Detailed knowledge of plastic and metal part manufacturing processes
- Solid understanding of DFM, DFA, GD&T, and tolerance analysis
- Demonstrated ability to apply engineering fundamentals to find simple solutions to complex problems
- A strong desire to work hands-on
- Strong communication skills
The estimated base salary range for this position is $175k to $225k, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs. At Mill, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role.
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Mill is a waste prevention technology company reimagining what it means to eliminate waste, starting with food. We build smart systems and infrastructure for homes, businesses, and municipalities that transform food scraps from landfill-bound waste into valuable resources, including chicken feed. Tens of thousands of Mill’s residential food recyclers are already helping households divert millions of pounds of food scraps every year, paving the way for our upcoming launch of Mill Commercial—the industry’s first end-to-end solution for managing, understanding, and preventing food waste in commercial environments (e.g. grocery, restaurants, food services). At Mill, we are passionate about building easy-to-use, beautifully designed technologies that keep food in the food system and out of landfills.
About this Role:
As a Sr. Systems Engineer at Mill, you will be responsible for helping ideate, test and define the next generation of Mill’s commercial food recycler technology. We are a small team and you will work cross-functionally with Electrical/Mechanical Engineers, Algorithms and Product Teams to deliver world class industrial products designed to keep food waste out of landfills. This is a hands-on role and best suited for someone who has a history of working on interdisciplinary projects involving thermal, fluids or chemical processes from concept through production.
Responsibilities:
- Owns system performance: Tech lead for test engineers on the experimental optimization and characterization of system parameters such as temperatures, flow rates, and heat transfer to improve energy efficiency and throughput. Collaborates on analysis and helps derive conclusions and next steps from experimental data.
- Work collaboratively with algorithms and firmware teams to develop control schemes for the system processes to optimize energy consumption and drying time while ensuring reliable function
- Identify opportunities to improve the system design to deliver improved performance or reliability.
- Oversee and direct external simulations work such as CFD, thermal and multiphysics models to help improve system design and performance.
- Determine the system requirements for various components such as fans, condensers, heaters, flow meters and sensors. Collaborates with other systems engineers to ensure these are well documented and have visibility to other stakeholders.
- Collaborate with mechanical engineers to optimize custom hardware such as mixing paddles, air deflectors and cutting/shredding technology core to the drying and grinding chamber.
- Collaborate with operations and global supply chain managers on sourcing components that will meet our specifications at production volumes.
- Collaborate with mechanical engineers to facilitate the transition of prototype parts and bench top proof of concept to high volume manufacturing methods.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience working hands on as a systems or in a lead role with significant thermal and fluid handling aspects. Ideal past experience would include taking new processes from concept through to production.
- An ability to work cross functionally, and interface with a wide range of disciplines to enable cross functional collaboration. Strong communications skills through written, verbal and graphical presentation techniques.
- Ability to leverage python to analyze time series data is preferred, but other means (R, Ai ect) are also acceptable.
- Past experience managing cross functional engineering projects spanning a number of technical disciplines including electrical, mechanical, thermal, and controls.
- Hands-on experience with electromechanical integration and part selection such as blowers, valves, fans and sensors
- BS and or MS degree in related engineering field preferably with focus on Process, Thermal, mechanical or Chemical Engineering. Masters or higher is preferred.
- Some prior startup experience is highly preferred.
- Strong communications skills through written, verbal and graphical presentation techniques
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively across the entire company as needed
The estimated base salary range for this position is $195,000- $255.000, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs. At Mill, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role.
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Mill is a waste prevention technology company reimagining what it means to eliminate waste, starting with food. We build smart systems and infrastructure for homes, businesses, and municipalities that transform food scraps from landfill-bound waste into valuable resources, including chicken feed. Tens of thousands of Mill’s residential food recyclers are already helping households divert millions of pounds of food scraps every year, paving the way for our upcoming launch of Mill Commercial—the industry’s first end-to-end solution for managing, understanding, and preventing food waste in commercial environments (e.g. grocery, restaurants, food services). At Mill, we are passionate about building easy-to-use, beautifully designed technologies that keep food in the food system and out of landfills.
As a member of Mill’s Product Design Engineering team you will be part of a cross functional team to design, validate and ship Mill's hardware products. You will work closely with other members of the PD team as well as cross functional groups including Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, Reliability, Product Management and Operations.
Objectives of this role:
- Design mechanical systems to balance complex tradeoffs between cross functional teams including Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, Reliability, Product Management and Operations
- Generate detailed CAD models, specifications and documentation
- Prototype, Test and Analyze component and system designs
- Validate and system performance and iterate designs to achieve targets
- Create predictive models and correlate with real world performance
- Perform root cause analysis of performance failures and drive corrective actions
- Work directly with the supply chain to ensure parts are properly manufactured and assembled.
Qualifications
- BS degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
- 7+ years experience working in mechanical product design. Consumer Electronics or Home Appliance industries are preferred
- Expertise in CAD modeling, experience with NX is preferred.
- Detailed knowledge of plastic and metal part manufacturing processes
- Solid understanding of product design concepts including Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), Tolerance Analysis
- Demonstrated ability to apply engineering fundamentals to find simple solutions to complex problems
- A strong desire to work hands-on
- Strong communication skills
The estimated base salary range for this position is $180k to $235k, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs.
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