Mechanical Design Engineering Team Lead

The mechanical team has four engineers, most of them at the start of their careers, and they need someone who guides them every day. You'll be the technical lead for the mechanical side of the product and the counterpart to the electronics lead, so the current mechanical manager can focus on core R&D. Your time splits roughly evenly between hands-on engineering and technical leadership. You'll work closely with Electronics, Production, Procurement and the CTO, and you'll set the engineering habits while the team is still small.

What you'll do

• Mentor the mechanical engineers day to day: help them make design decisions, set methods and keep projects focused
• Design parts and assemblies in CAD, including tolerancing, and check every design for manufacturability and cost before it goes out
• Lead testing and integration of mechanics and electronics, and solve the problems that only show once everything is assembled
• Prioritise incoming work, follow up on progress and make the day-to-day technical calls on the mechanical side
• Make the gated design process work in practice and run design reviews (safety, mechanics, electronics, manufacturability) before parts are integrated
• Put design for manufacturing and design for cost in place: fewer, standardised parts and production methods that scale
• Work with the electronics owner of each robot module from the first prototype on, and with Production on manufacturability and production jigs
• Build and iterate prototypes based on customer and field feedback

About you

• Several years of hands-on mechanical design in R&D at a company that develops and builds its own electromechanical products (e.g. power tools, home appliances, e-mobility, production machines, robotics, marine propulsion)
• A proven record of taking an electromechanical product from prototype to series production (ideally 1,000+ units a year) on a fast development cycle of about a year, not a decade-long program
• You still design hands-on in CAD, mainly metal parts and assemblies, with strong tolerancing skills (any CAD tool; Onshape is a plus)
• You've applied design for manufacturing and design for cost, and cut cost through design: fewer parts, standard parts
• At least two years of mentoring or technically guiding other engineers; a team-lead title isn't required
• Experience testing and integrating mechanics with electronics
• You've introduced processes, design reviews or engineering standards that helped a team deliver
• You handle unclear requirements and break complex problems down so others can work on them
• German is a plus, since production is mostly German-speaking
• Bonus: GD&T and tolerance stack-ups, design of production jigs, or projects with motors, motor controllers or electronics

What Filics offers

• A key role at an early stage: shape both the mechanical team and the product
• Real ownership of the mechanical side, from first prototype to series production
• A mix of hands-on engineering and leadership, with a path into team lead and engineering management as Filics grows
• Fast design cycles driven by customer and field feedback
• A small, high-caliber team with close collaboration across mechanics, electronics, software and production
• Fast growth: one year at Filics teaches you what usually takes many years at a large company
• An on-site/hybrid role in Munich, close to Engineering and Assembly

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Posted Nov 10, 2026