What a R&D Engineer (Mechanical Design & Test) does at HP:
Lead mechanical design validation for new product development, ensuring strong design integrity, reliability, and usercentric performance.
Design and execute test strategies for mechanical hardware parts, sub-assembly/module, and integrated product.
Digital transformation processes by automating workflows, test execution, data collection, and analytics.
Integrate development data telemetry to enhance design insights, R&D decisionmaking and efficiency.
Apply statistics (Weibull, Binomial etc), analysis tools, and DOE methodologies to characterize performance and resolve technical challenges.
Collaborate closely with internal teams, outsourced partners, and suppliers to align on design validation progress, risks, and technical decisions.
Lead engineering project teams to develop innovative, costeffective, test and highquality product solutions.
Mentor junior engineers and strengthen team technical competencies.
Integrate Agentic AI approaches to improve test, validation, and development processes.
Education & Experience Recommended
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics
Engineering statistics
Typically has 4-7 years of work experience, preferably in engineering design and solutions, implementation across hardware development lifecycle, or a related field or an advanced degree with 3-5 years of work experience.
Experienced in industrial standards testing of consumer products.
(Advantage) Develops Agentic AI for workflow and processes.
(Advantage) Scripting/coding through common languages like Visual C++, Python or/and data science tools.
Skills
Effective Communication to describe/instruct requirements, gain support and alignment, report and recommend to program and management
Problem solving, root causing, fault isolation
Develop hypotheses, design tests to prove/disprove hypotheses
Objective and Results Driven
Learning Agility
Digital Fluency
Customer Centricity
Skills in engineering design tools and software packages to study Mechanical Engineering design and ideate solutions.
Disclaimer
This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.
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