Strategic Engineering Advisors
Product Development is complicated,
but building an experienced engineering team doesn’t have to be. There is another way!
If you’ve been building your startup without a technical co-founder, hiring and managing an engineering team can seem daunting. Our Senior Engineering staff are ready to help provide the guidance and mentorship of a CTO without the full-time cost. Whether it’s mechanical hardware, electrical circuit boards, embedded software, or all of the above, our team will serve as your senior engineering staff, looking over their shoulders, reviewing injection molding designs, or explaining how early choices on the PCB can affect manufacturing, firmware updates, and customer support.
- Recruiting and hiring the right engineers for your team
- Look ahead, plan engineering efforts from 30,000 feet
- Project Management Strategies
- Support Design for Manufacturing, Regulatory Testing, & Compliance
- Validate Customer Input and design for the whole User Experience
- Ensure the project Milestones are on-track. Are daily or semi-weekly stand-ups required?
- Does the work meet Design Requirements?
- How will engineering decisions affect quality & profit?
- And more.
This is a supporting role for the entire engineering and management team. Your staff will continue with the day-to-day work. However, unlike hiring a single, full-time senior engineer, you’ll have access to the experience and guidance of all our senior staff across various disciplines and specialties.
A Case Study
Hiring experienced engineers is hard and great candidates are tough to find. We’d been working with our medical device customer for years but their mechanical work had grown to the point they wanted to hire someone internally. Since they were all electrical and software engineers, they were worried about hiring a recent graduate without a senior mechanical engineer to supervise and mentor the new hire. We offered to be their senior mechanical advisor, making their decision easy.
While familiar with using Solidworks as a software tool, our client’s engineer had never designed an injection molded assembly for production. We provided some reading materials and walked through feature designs, material selection, wall-thickness requirements, drafts, fillets, and the process of a tolerance stack-up to ensure reliability. It’s quite similar to how we mentor our interns and recent grads at Root3 Labs.
It didn’t take long before our young engineer became more independent and didn’t need our help as frequently. That engineer is now almost 3 years into his new job. He still reaches out with technical questions or specific problems. We’re still engaged with the customer to help when they need extra support since they aren’t ready to hire another engineer.
Why Strategic Engineering Advisors?
Senior Staff without the W2’s
We bring a wide array of experience to your problem. As engineering design consultants, we have worked on literally hundreds of projects over the years, but it’s not just a mile wide and an inch deep. We also ramp-up quickly as we dig into a new technology or technical topic giving us deep expertise on many topics. Benefit from our experience on a limited engagement without resorting to permanent hires. Plus, we’re introverts, so you don’t even have to invite us to the holiday party.
Problem-Solving Expertise
Easier said than done, the process of problem-solving is to eliminate one variable at a time until you’ve identified the root cause. Some variables are harder to eliminate and may require a lot of exploratory surgery only to find out it wasn’t the problem. Are there creative shortcuts to eliminate that variable before getting out the grinder? Take advantage of our hard-earned expertise.
Still thinking about it
How Much Does This Cost?
Our typical full-scope projects vary in size by a lot. This fixed-price Engineering Advisory service allows us to become familiar with your project, understand the issues, and offer recommendations you hadn’t considered. We don’t expect to be able to solve every problem in a few hours per week, but we can guide you through the problem solving process.
Talk with one of our engineers today. We’ll answer any questions about how we can help you solve your technical challenges.
This is a no-obligation introductory call, not a hard-sell. If we’re not the best engineering partner to help right now, we’ll let you know.
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