Define what must be true
Separate requirements, known facts, assumptions, predictions, and measured results before the geometry makes change expensive.
About Jared Maffucci
A Senior Mechanical Engineer Who Stays Close to the Hardware.
I work across product definition, architecture, CAD, mechanisms, analysis, prototypes, manufacturing, and validation because the most important product decisions rarely stay inside one mechanical feature.
Career path
Aerospace rigor, cross-market product range, and current NPD leadership.
I earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University in 2018 and joined Viasat that July. During five years in space-systems and advanced-communications R&D, I developed high-reliability hardware under coupled structural, thermal, vibration, modal, packaging, manufacturing, procurement, documentation, and cross-functional interface constraints. That environment made explicit assumptions, reviewable analysis, configuration discipline, and test boundaries normal parts of the work.
Beginning in 2023, I have also supported independent product-development programs across consumer, prosumer, ergonomic, home-improvement, electromechanical, industrial, and precision-mechanical hardware. The products vary, but the engineering pattern is consistent: understand the user and business need, find the physics and interfaces that control the result, build an editable definition, learn from hardware, and prepare the next team to make a defensible decision.
Since September 2025, I have served as Senior Mechanical Engineer, New Product Development at Nordson Electronics Solutions while continuing select independent work. I lead at the program level and remain hands-on in the CAD, calculations, design reviews, supplier questions, prototypes, drawings, and failure details that determine whether hardware can actually be built, tested, serviced, and improved. Current-employer programs and client-controlled details remain confidential.
Collaboration
Mechanical ownership connected to the people who use, build, test, and support the product.
I work directly with founders, industrial designers, electrical and software engineers, technicians, suppliers, manufacturing, quality, service, and leadership. I make interface and ownership boundaries explicit, translate competing constraints into a reviewable decision, and stay involved through the physical consequence of that decision.
What teams can expect
- Clear requirements, assumptions, and responsibilities
- Alternatives compared before detail makes change expensive
- CAD, analysis, prototype, supplier, and test work tied to a decision
- Stage-accurate maturity and validation language
- A handoff the organization can continue using
Three operating principles
How I make engineering commitments.
Keep every tradeoff connected
Relate mechanical decisions to user interaction, controlling physics, electronics, assembly, suppliers, cost, service, and validation.
Leave a usable engineering record
Document the configuration, reasoning, open risks, and next gate so another team can review, build, test, and continue the work.
Direct conversation
Start with the role, the product stage, or the decision ahead.
Choose the employer or product-development path and send a concise, non-confidential note. I will respond directly.
Contact Jared