Mechanical Engineer

WHO ARE WE

Halo Braid is a mission-driven startup engineering healthier and happier hair. Our first product is an AI-powered automatic hair braider. It reduces braiding time from hours to minutes, empowering stylists to triple their business, and addressing the 8 billion hours spent braiding hair each year. Our team of VC-backed serial founders and engineers brings experience from MIT, Harvard, Apple, Dyson, and Rivian.

ABOUT YOU

You’re a Mechanical Engineer that can help build our next hair product. You’re passionate, dynamic, embrace challenges and like working on interesting problems. You want to build things real people want. This is a unique opportunity to launch a new product and create significant impact in an overlooked industry.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Halo Braid is looking for a mechanical engineer to help us refine our product.  In this role you will collaborate with the founding team, engineers and designers to build the product. You’re a strong problem solver who can design and prototype under deadlines. You’ll develop key mechanisms to drive product design architecture to closure. This is a contract position.

We highly value diversity at our company and encourage applications from all backgrounds. 

If your experience doesn't match our criteria exactly but you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply and tell us how you can make a difference!

Requirements

Ideally you have 4+ years professional experience with:

• 3D Solidworks CAD with best practices for part design, complex assemblies and configurations
• Rapid prototyping and manufacturing (3D printing, CNC machining, laser cutting)
• Mass manufacturing methods (injection molding, CNC etc.)
• Experience working directly with industrial designers translating CMF requirements into mechanical design
• Design for human interaction
• Crafting and testing proof-of-concept models and prototypes
• Gears, motors, and mechatronic components
• Delivering complex mechanical products to defined schedules

Bonus if you have experience with:

• GD&T
• Completion and release of component design and documentation (including 2D drawings) 
• Mass produced consumer electronics
• Hair styling tools