Printhead Mechanical Designer
Description -
Printhead Mechanical Designer (Specialist)
About HP
HP is a global technology company driven by the belief that innovative ideas have the power to change the world. For more than 80 years, HP has pioneered technologies that enable people and organizations to create, communicate, and achieve more. Our portfolio spans personal systems, industrial and consumer printing, digital manufacturing, and emerging technologies that help customers work, learn, and grow.
Why Print Matters
Printing remains one of HP's largest and most strategic businesses. HP Printing delivers solutions that power homes, small businesses, enterprises, and industrial manufacturing operations worldwide. From everyday document printing to packaging, commercial graphics, and digital manufacturing, HP's print technologies help customers transform ideas into physical products and experiences.
Innovation in print relies on world-class engineering across mechanical design, materials, manufacturing, reliability, fluidics, electronics, and systems integration. In this role, the Mechanical Engineering Designer will focus on printhead design that is reliable and manufacturable that enables industry-leading print quality, performance, and customer experience.
Role Overview
The Printhead Mechanical Engineering Designer is a technical contributor responsible for the design, development, and qualification of printhead components, assemblies, interfaces, and subsystems used in HP printing products and technologies.
In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams including writing systems, ink and materials, fluidics, systems engineering, manufacturing, reliability, quality, and suppliers to develop innovative print solutions that meet print quality, reliability, cost, sustainability, and schedule objectives.
You will contribute throughout the printhead development lifecycle, from architecture and concept generation through detailed design, prototyping, validation, product launch, and sustaining engineering.
What You Will Do
Design printhead components, assemblies, and interfaces, including printhead bodies, lids, fluid-delivery features, seals, vents, fluidic interconnects and latches. This includes leveraging previous designs into new concepts.
Create and maintain 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, specifications, tolerance analyses, and design documentation for printhead hardware.
Apply Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), Design for Reliability (DFR), and Design for Sustainability principles.
Collaborate with writing systems, ink and materials, fluidics, electrical, manufacturing, quality, and reliability engineers to develop integrated printhead solutions.
Support printhead prototype builds, engineering evaluations, and design verification activities, including dimensional, environmental, shipping, drop, life, and fluid-delivery testing.
Conduct tolerance stack-up analyses, fit-and-function assessments, define mechanical, electrical, and fluidic interfaces with partners, and perform design trade-off studies for precision printhead interfaces.
Select and evaluate plastics, elastomers, adhesives, films, foams, and other materials for chemical compatibility, dimensional stability, manufacturability, and long-term reliability.
Work with tooling suppliers, component vendors, and manufacturing partners to optimize injection-molded parts and printhead assemblies for quality, cost, yield, and scalability.
Participate in structured problem-solving activities using tools such as FMEA, root cause analysis, tolerance analysis, and Design of Experiments (DOE).
Support product launch, manufacturing ramp, and transition of printhead designs into production.
Drive continuous improvement in printhead performance, quality, manufacturability, cost, and engineering efficiency.
Contribute printhead design knowledge, standards, and best practices across project teams.
Ensure IP is documented and filed in…