Resurgent Industries
Chief Machine Development Engineer
Austin +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 20, 2026
- Location
- Austin
Leander - Experience
- 15+ years; equivalent depth from aerospace, automotive, capital equipment, or industrial automation is acceptable.
- Education
- Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent; advanced degree is a plus.
About the job
Leads the design, build, and industrialization of in-house production machines, and builds the multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for taking them from concept to repeatable high-volume production.
What you'll do
- Translate product and process requirements into machine architecture, plans, and interfaces with the product and plant.
- Lead machine design, prototype build, testing, and production readiness, including shop-floor debugging and first-article support.
- Build and lead the machine engineering organization and set machine technology and make-versus-buy strategy.
What they ask for
- 15+ years designing and delivering complex electromechanical or process-equipment systems; equivalent depth from aerospace, automotive, capital equipment, or industrial automation is acceptable.
- Track record taking hardware from prototype to production volume and leading multidisciplinary design teams through design, build, test, and revision.
- Integrated-systems fluency across mechanics, structures, electrical power/actuation, and thermal/fluids, with first-principles design ability.
- Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent; effective communication and collaboration in a distributed team environment.
Nice to have
- Background in advanced integrated systems, such as production machinery, transportation or aerospace structures and mechanisms, industrial robotics, or large-scale process equipment.
- Experience in a complex process industry, structural design of large frames, machine-level electrical power and drive systems, process equipment, PLM and configuration control, or meeting capital-equipment first-unit dates and unit-cost targets.
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