

Principal Engineer Lead
Actalent
Posted Monday, July 28, 2025
Posting ID: JP-005439805
Job Title: Principal Engineer
Job Description
Lead the engineering development activities for mobile cleaning equipment products focusing on new product development and large-scale lifecycle management efforts. This position primarily serves as the Engineering Lead on a cross-functional team tasked with designing and developing innovative electro-mechanical machines that meet performance, quality, cost, and timeline requirements. Additionally, this role leads and contributes to technical product strategy development including product platform and architecture development, product simplification improvements, technology and innovation concept development, product and technology roadmap inputs, and project strategy phase execution.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering development activities for mobile cleaning equipment products.
- Serve as the Engineering Lead on a cross-functional team.
- Design and develop innovative electro-mechanical machines.
- Ensure product performance, quality, cost, and timelines are met.
- Contribute to technical product strategy development.
- Develop product platform and architecture.
- Implement product simplification improvements.
- Drive technology and innovation concept development.
- Provide inputs for product and technology roadmap.
- Execute project strategy phases.
Essential Skills
- Mechanical engineering
- Product development engineering
- Integrated product development
- Design
- BSME or equivalent
- 10+ years in mechanical engineering for product development
- Subsystem or system-level integration experience
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- BS in Mechanical, Systems Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent from an ABET accredited institution
- MS in Systems or Mechanical Engineering preferred
- 10+ years of new product development experience
- Strong project planning/management experience
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus
- Experience in electric vehicle or autonomous vehicle development preferred
- Strong technical background with machine and system integration experience on complex electro-mechanical systems
- Experience with electric vehicle architectures, systems, and subsystems
- Demonstrated experience in whole product-level systems requirements development, management, and architecture definition
Work Environment
Engage in 90% design and development activities supporting both industrial and commercial products. Engineers and manufactures in Golden Valley.
Contact Information
Email: jaclarson@actalentservices.com