If you’re a mechanical engineer and have ever looked at the process of getting hardware from design to manufacturing and thought, “there has to be a better way,” we should probably talk.
We’re hiring an Applied Mechanical Product Engineer at Drafter.
This is a high-ownership role for a practicing mechanical engineer who wants to use their engineering judgment across a much wider range of products, teams, and industries.
You’ll work directly with Drafter’s founders, product team, and engineering team to turn real-world mechanical engineering expertise into better tools for hardware development.
One day, you might be thinking through how a robotics team communicates design intent to a supplier. The next, you could be helping improve workflows for teams building rocket ships, energy systems, medical devices, or something we haven’t heard of yet.
The role goes beyond supporting a single product line. You’ll help shape how Drafter works, what we build next, and how thousands of engineers bring critical hardware to market.
We’re looking for someone who:
Has strong, practical mechanical engineering experience
Understands drawings, GD&T, manufacturing, and the messy reality between CAD and finished parts
Enjoys breaking down complicated engineering problems
Wants to work closely with product and software teams
Is excited to help build the tools they wish they had earlier in their career
You do not need to be a software engineer. You do need to be curious, opinionated, and comfortable saying, “technically, that drawing is legal, but I would still never send it to a shop.”
Know someone who would be a great fit? Please forward this to them. We would love to meet them.
In the meantime, try the Toolbox
Over the past few months, we’ve also been building out the Drafter Toolbox, a collection of free resources for mechanical engineers.
It currently includes calculators for:
Tolerance stack-ups
Fixed fastener conditions
Bolted joint analysis
Bolt torque
We’ve also added our AI Redliner, our ASME trained drawing redlining tool. Upload a drawing and it will review it for potential GD&T, dimensioning, and manufacturability issues.
Thank you to everyone who has tried them, sent feedback, reported edge cases, or politely explained where our math needed another look. Your feedback has already shaped what we’ve built and improved.
Now we want to know what should come next.
Is there a calculator you rebuild in Excel every six months? A drawing check you wish could be automated? A reference chart you can never find when you need it?
Head to our Build Next page to vote on the tools already being considered or recommend something we haven’t thought of yet. We’re actively using those suggestions and votes to decide what gets built next.
Happy engineering,
The Drafter Team