Senior Mechanical Engineer (Contract-to-Hire)

Location: Hybrid – Bay Area Preferred | Remote with Travel Required
Type: 3-6 Month Contract, Opportunity for Full-Time
Start: ASAP Compensation: Competitive, with travel expectations factored in

Ready to Build? Email your portfolio and resume to info@hatchduo.com. Tell us about a product you helped bring to life—and what made it challenging or fun. To be considered, please email info@hatchduo.com with your portfolio, cover letter, (specific to what would make you a good fit at Hatch Duo), and resume. Candidates without a portfolio will not be considered.
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‍Do you obsess over engineering problems even after you clock out?
Are you a garage tinkerer, weekend project warrior, or systems thinker who thrives on turning ideas into tangible products? If you find joy in solving tough design problems, building prototypes, and shipping real hardware, we want to meet you.

At Hatch Duo, we design award-winning products across wearables, medtech, fitness, robotics, and consumer electronics. We move fast, work hands-on, and care deeply about doing excellent work. Our studio blends startup energy with deep design and engineering expertise—and we’re looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join us on a contract basis (with a strong path to full-time if it's a mutual fit).
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‍What You’ll Do
- Lead mechanical development from concept through production
- Develop system architectures, mechanical strategies, and detailed part designs
- Collaborate with industrial design and EE teams to bring ideas to life
- Design for manufacturing: execute clean CAD (SolidWorks), and DFM
- Own client communications and vendor coordination where needed
- Travel is required for client and vendor visits—and if remote, you’ll be expected to travel to our Bay Area headquarters approximately 3–4 times per quarter. This expectation is factored into overall compensation.
- Jump between projects and industries with agility and discipline

About You
- 5–10 years of mechanical engineering experience in consumer, medtech, or related hardware
- Proficient in SolidWorks—surfacing and solid modeling, top-down, bottom-up, and master modeling, clean part structure
- Strong grasp of plastic part design, injection molding, machining, and prototyping methods
- Fluent in 2D documentation,  BOM creation, and DFM/DFA best practices, working knowledge of GD&T
- Comfortable with vendor engagement, prototyping, and client-facing updates
- Highly accountable, low-ego, and thrives in hybrid/remote environments
- Local to the Bay Area is a plus—but not required if you can meet the travel expectation

Why This Isn’t Just Another Contract Gig
You’ll join a small, tight-knit award winning team that works on meaningful products with forward-thinking founders and startups. You’ll be empowered to own your work but supported by experienced peers. We’re curious, fast-moving, and deeply focused on outcomes—not red tape. If you prove yourself here, there’s a path to full-time in just a few months.

About Hatch Duo
Hatch Duo is a product design and engineering studio founded by award-winning creators with over 20 years of combined experience. Our team works across consumer, enterprise, and emerging technology sectors, blending industrial design with mechanical engineering to bring physical products to life. We collaborate with visionary founders and growing brands—delivering concept to production with precision.

Industrial Designer

Overview:
‍We are looking to grow our industrial design team with a contract position to permanent full-time hire. To be considered, please email info@hatchduo.com with your portfolio, cover letter,(specific to what would make you a good fit at Hatch Duo), and resume. Candidates without a portfolio will not be considered.
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‍Duties / Responsibilities:
- Work on a broad range of advanced and diversified design projects
- Bring projects from concept through development to market
- Develop and coordinate presentations in a professional manner detailing the scope of a directive
- Meet established deadlines
- Responsible for executing designs that achieve feasibility at a production and engineering level
- Collaboration across multidisciplinary teams internal and external (Design/ENG/Vendors)
- Create compelling designs based on Ideation, Research, and Product Requirements
- Providing design support to all levels of designers and engineers.
- Developing and seeing through design from concept to final deliverables.(manufacturing experience in production -- injection molding, machining, sheet metal, cut and sew is a plus, but not a requirement)
- Delivering on time
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‍Desired Skills / Experience:
- 1-3 Years of relevant experience or recent graduate with consultancy internship experience (consultancy experience preferred)
- Excellent at analog sketching, digital sketching, model making, and functional mock-ups
- Excellent communication skills: written/verbal/presentation
- Working knowledge of 3D Modelling software(Solidworks, Rhino, Keyshot)
- Excellent at Illustrator and Photoshop
- Willingness to lead at times, but also take direction and learn from others.
- Great positive attitude with an emphasis on self-motivation, time-management, and high quality of work
- Multilingual skills are welcome
- This job is remote/hybrid(we work primarily remotely)
- You must be authorized to work in the United States.

Job Types:
Contract to potential full-time

Digital Content Creator/Social Media Content Creator

Overview:
This is a paid part-time internship role to help grow our brand awareness. This is a hybrid remote position; but occasionally there will be in-office requirements, like photo shoots, video production, etc. This role is heavily focused on video editing, so candidates with video production experience will be preferred. Our goal is for this to become a longer-term arrangement for the right candidate.
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‍Job Responsibilities:
- Support Founders/Partners on all tasks related to social media and digital marketing
- Film, edit, and publish content according to monthly content calendar schedules.
- Create content (photos and videos) for our social media accounts ( Youtube, Instagram, Tik Tok, Linkedin )
- Review and analyze influencer metrics and insights on Instagram, Linkedin, FB, etc.
- Communicate internal insights with the team via charts/graphs and easy-to-digest visual data that can be tracked
- Assist with blog posts, copywriting, and thought publication execution
- Maintain our social media content calendar to ensure a consistent social media presence(posting regularly)
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‍Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with managing/using social media automation tools
- Proficient in video editing tools like Premiere, After Effects, Jasper Ai, etc.
- Comfortable with Adobe Creative Suite(Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, After Effects).
- Youtube, film, photography, and videography experience
- Interest in design and product design(previous exposure to industrial design and AI is a plus)
- Product photography experience preferred

Job Types:
Part-time, Internship

‍Schedule:
- 10-20 hours a week(flex time)
- Monday to Friday (flexible)

Email a video intro, or resume/CV to: INFO@HATCHDUO.COM

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