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Product Design Engineer, FEA

Hark · San Jose · On-site

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About Hark

At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.

About the role

We're looking for a Product Design Engineer with deep simulation and structural analysis expertise to help us build hardware that holds up to the demands of daily life. You'll be the analytical backbone of Hark's mechanical engineering team — using FEA and coupled simulation methods to validate design decisions, predict failure modes, and drive structural, thermal, and dynamic performance from the earliest stages of development through production release.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of FEA and structural simulation experience in a consumer hardware, aerospace, medical device, or precision manufacturing environment
  • Expert-level proficiency in at least one major FEA platform (ANSYS, Abaqus, Nastran, or equivalent), experience with meshing, boundary condition definition, nonlinear materials, and contact modeling
  • Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals in solid mechanics, materials science, heat transfer, and dynamics — with the ability to sanity-check simulation outputs against first-principles reasoning
  • Experience performing and interpreting drop, vibration, fatigue, and thermal analysis for physical products
  • Proficiency in 3D CAD (SolidWorks, NX, Creo, or equivalent) and the ability to simplify and prepare geometry for simulation without losing critical structural fidelity
  • Demonstrated track record of closing the loop between simulation predictions and physical test results — including model correlation and iterative refinement
More about this role

Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.

We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.

To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.

We're looking for a Product Design Engineer with deep simulation and structural analysis expertise to help us build hardware that holds up to the demands of daily life. You'll be the analytical backbone of Hark's mechanical engineering team — using FEA and coupled simulation methods to validate design decisions, predict failure modes, and drive structural, thermal, and dynamic performance from the earliest stages of development through production release. This is a hands-on role...

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