About the role

As an mechanical design engineer, you have an excellent opportunity to join an exciting team developing and maintaining Vaisala’s automated weather stations. Your work will involve prototyping new product concepts, as well as maintaining existing products. You will work in the experienced team but also collaborate closely with other stakeholders such as production team. We hope you have good skills in technical problem solving, as well as a bold and growth-oriented attitude towards the work. Your workplace is mainly located at Vaisala’s office in Vantaanlaakso while occasional remote work is possible.

You are offered in this role

• A great opportunity to work with products and systems that help save lives and mitigate climate change, e.g., in weather forecasting around the world
• Lunch benefit and extensive occupational health care
• Employment through Academic Work, offering a great opportunity to grow as a professional, extend your network, and establish valuable contacts for the future
• Opportunity to be recruited to Vaisala if you thrive and succeed in the role

Work tasks

• Maintenance and development of Vaisala products
• Problem-solving, design, concept development, prototyping, and testing
• Technical documentation and collaboration with stakeholders

We are looking for

• Suitable technical background e.g. mechanical engineering
• Prior mechanical design experience
• Experience in using some CAD and PDM, preferably Solidworks and Aton
• Fluent written and spoken skills in English

The following are seen as an advantage

• Experience with electronic components
• Experience with outdoor products

To succeed in this role, you are:

• An excellent problem solver with good analytical skills
• Systematic and communicative
• Proactive and courageous
• Willing to learn new skills and technologies In addition to your CV, please include a cover letter explaining more about your suitability.

Our recruitment process

This recruitment process is handled by Academic Work and it is our client’s wish that all questions regarding the position is directed to Academic Work.

Our selection process is continuous and the advert may close before the recruitment process is completed if we have moved forward to the next phase. The process includes two tests: one personality test and one cognitive test. The tests are tools to find the right talent for the right position, to enable equality, diversity, and a fair process.

Vaisala Oyj

Vaisala Oyj is a global leader in measurement instruments and intelligence helping industries, nations, people, and the planet to thrive. From predicting hurricanes to optimizing renewable energy production, our technology is used where it matters the most – from data centers, windfarms and laboratories to airports, the Arctic and even the surface of Mars. Vaisala was recognised by Time Magazine in 2025 as among the world’s best companies for Sustainable Growth. Our team of over 2,300 experts and 59 nationalities around the world is committed to taking every measure for the planet. Driven by our shared purpose, curiosity, and pioneering spirit, we stay ahead and make a difference. At Vaisala, you don't have to fit in to belong.

​At Vaisala

• We take every measure for the planet. Our technology and data play a vital role in understanding, mitigating, and adapting to climate change. We enable climate action from optimizing industrial processes to advancing the energy transition, predicting hurricanes and wildfires to monitoring road conditions.
• ​Numbers speak louder than words. The engagement (4.1/5) and leadership (4.0/5) indexes in our annual employee survey show that people like it here. Commitment to equality is a given, and we have zero gender-pay gap.​
• When stakes are high. Our solutions provide the most accurate and reliable measurements around the globe and on Mars. 28% of us work in R&D creating science-based innovations that endure the extremes. To stay ahead of the game, we invest around 13 % of our net sales in research and development.