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Senior Mechanical Engineer - Outdoor

Olathe, KSOnsiteFull TimeSeniorPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Mechanical Engineer
  • Outdoor product category
  • project planning
  • complex mechanical designs
  • injection molding
  • die casting
  • sheet metal stamping
  • machining
  • material requirements
  • material performance

Nice to have

  • Electronic packaging design experience
  • SolidWorks
  • OnShape
  • passion for outdoor activities

Role summary

Garmin is seeking a full-time Senior Mechanical Engineer for its Outdoor product team at its U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. This role involves advanced engineering skills and project planning for mechanical or electromechanical solutions. Responsibilities include complex CAD designs, knowledge of manufacturing processes (injection molding, die casting, etc.), specifying and testing mechanical systems, managing tradeoffs, and exploring new technologies. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or equivalent, strong academic performance, CAD proficiency, and effective communication skills. Desired qualifications include electronic packaging design experience and familiarity with SolidWorks or Onshape.

Overview



We are seeking a full-time Senior Mechanical Engineer on our Outdoor product team at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for providing advanced engineering skills and project planning for mechanical or electromechanical solutions or systems within the Outdoor product category.

Essential Functions

  • Able to complete the most difficult tasks as a Master CAD-user including the completion of complex mechanical designs
  • Knowledge of injection molding, die casting, sheet metal stamping, machining, material requirements, material performance, material limitations, etc.
  • Specify test plans, mock up and test complex mechanical systems with complex performance requirements to validate and verify compliance with design requirements
  • Manage basic tradeoffs, determine risk mitigation plans, determine project goal/objective feasibility, provide technical input to product development plans/concept documents, and drive process vendors to evaluate complex mechanical designs and understand risk
  • Lead explorations of new technologies and make estimates on moderately complex mechanical designs including: tooling, part cost, and design time
  • Knowledge of Industry and Garmin product qualification tests (environmental and others)
  • Provide reliable solutions to a wide range of difficult problems using sound problem solving techniques and offer process improvements and author new procedures

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
  • Demonstrated knowledge and capability to use CAD software for completing complex mechanical designs
  • Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills

Desired Qualifications

  • Electronic packaging design experience
  • SolidWorks or OnShape experience
  • A passion for outdoor activities

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits

Sample Garmin interview questions

  • 1

    Minimum Path Sum Find the minimum path sum from top-left to bottom-right in a grid. Input: grid = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] Output: 12 Explanation: The optimal path moves along 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 6, resulting in a minimum accumulated sum of 12.

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  • 2

    Rotate a linked list to the right by k places. Given the head of a linked list, rotate the list to the right by k places. Input: head = [0,1,2], k = 4 Output: [2,0,1] Explanation: The list has a length of 3. Rotating by 4 is mathematically equivalent to rotating by 1 (4 mod 3 = 1).

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  • 3

    Find the maximum depth of an N-ary tree.

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  • 4

    Find the total number of continuous subarrays whose sum equals K.

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  • 5

    Find all buildings that have an ocean view.

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