Alloy

I spent 3 years as a Mechanical Design Engineer at Alloy Product Development in San Francisco, CA. 

My work consisted of helping clients go from prototype to mass manufacturing. Projects varied from a 2-week-long design review to a 2-year-long product development cycle. A typical engagement as a design engineer is around a year. While I got the chance to dip my toes in every phase, I found my favorite place to be was right at the beginning; product specs are uncertain, many questions are unanswerable in the moment, and no one knows exactly where we're going to end up!

I debugged thermal issues, built test stands, designed/built wire harnesses, a push-push mech, and a rotary cam, prototyped silicone and urethane molds and products, learned loads about wireless charging, load tested, thermal tested, dipped my toes in organic chemistry, had my first patent granted, built bluetooth-enabled electromagnetic locks,  retrofitted laundry machines, learned a thing or two about integrating flexible PCBs into itty bitty products, and participated in many brainstorming and design review sessions. Ask me about some of the projects sometime!

Alloy's way of looking at the development process is as follows:

I spent most of my time at Alloy in phases 1-4.