Mechanical Design Engineer in Round Rock, Texas at AustinPx Pharmaceutics and Manufacturing

Founded in 2007, AustinPx is a fee-for-service CDMO offering preclinical through Phase II formulation and process development and GMP manufacturing of oral dosage forms. We specialize in bioavailability enhancement, speed to clinic and market development strategies, and dose form development. For poorly soluble compounds, we have one of the most powerful tools available in KinetiSol™, a truly next generation technology for rendering active pharmaceutical ingredients amorphous. The KinetiSol™ Technology generates amorphous solid dispersions, dramatically improving the bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs. KinetiSol is a fusion-based, solvent-free process that utilizes frictional and shear energies - in a fraction of the time of other ASD technologies.


Mechanical Design Engineer
The successful candidate will generate solid models, drafting, and documentation for new design work pertaining to the company’s core technology. The candidate will also be directly involved in the manufacturing and assembly of designed equipment.
The design engineer plays an important role in working with the company’s core technology as well as supporting R&D and Operations in a variety of ways.

Duties & Responsibilities:
Design, Manufacturing, and Documentation:

• Generate solid models, drawings, and documentation for processing equipment for internal company use and for external audits.
• Understand tolerancing, tolerance stack up and dimensioning for interchangeable parts.

• Be able to ‘get your hands dirty’ for assembly and corrective measures.
• Effectively manage vendors to meet assembly timelines; monitor, track and manage vendor improvements for integration into equipment design.
• Generate creative solutions to solve and troubleshoot problems.
• All other tasks as assigned

Qualifications & Experience:

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent relevant and related work experience.
• 8-10 years experience with equipment design and assembly (GMP experience is a plus).
• Strong SolidWorks design experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency and knowledge of GD&T.
• Comfortable physically assembling items and troubleshooting.
• Experience using a PDM system.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, requiring a high degree of accuracy and detail orientation.
• Able to multi-task successfully in a fast-paced environment.
• At times, travel up to 20% may be required