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About the Role

You will lead mechanical engineering efforts and be the owner of the physical machine for our first product, a ruggedized, containerized system designed to survive harsh environments and protect critical components. This founding role involves setting the mechanical engineering direction, building the first article, and leading the future mechanical team.

Responsibilities

• Own structural, thermal, and packaging design of our first product from design through first article, qualification, and field deployment.
• Design for real-world conditions including ISO container standards, transport loads, IP-rated ingress protection, corrosion resistance, and MIL-STD-810-class qualification.
• Architect thermal management for large battery systems and power electronics in unconditioned coastal and desert climates.
• Design mechanical interfaces and mechanisms for system operation with unmanned vehicles.
• Establish the company's mechanical foundation, including CAD/PDM, drawing standards, BOM discipline, and DFM processes.
• Manage fabrication vendors for weldments, enclosures, and machining, and be present during builds.
• Participate in hardware deployment and commissioning at field sites.
• Recruit and lead future mechanical engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of experience designing structures for hardware deployed in harsh environments (aerospace, maritime, energy, automotive, defense).
• Proven experience as a responsible engineer, owning a product from concept through fabrication, testing, and field deployment.
• Deep expertise in structures or thermal management, with working knowledge across mechanisms, materials, and manufacturing.
• Hands-on fabrication experience, understanding costs, distortion, and vendor capabilities.
• Proficiency in 3D CAD software (NX, SolidWorks, or Creo).
• Ability to perform analysis grounded in hand calculations first, followed by FEA.
• Comfortable making high-consequence decisions rapidly without extensive documentation or review boards.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Skills

• Structural design
• Thermal management
• Packaging design
• ISO container standards
• Transport load analysis
• IP-rated ingress protection
• Corrosion resistance
• MIL-STD-810 qualification
• Battery system thermal management
• Power electronics thermal management
• Mechanical interfaces
• Mechanism design
• CAD (NX, SolidWorks, Creo)
• FEA
• Hand calculations
• Fabrication (weldments, enclosures, machining)
• DFM
• Vendor management

Location

• Onsite

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $150,000–$200,000

Benefits

• Founding-team equity
• Benefits

About the Company

• First Order Effects (FOE) is building America's Infrastructure Prime for the robotic era.
• We build infrastructure to power, connect, and launch/recover autonomous ships, drones, and robots.
• Our team has experience building cutting-edge systems at companies like SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Skunk Works.
• We have a track record of building infrastructure rapidly and are applying that expertise to our company.

Equal Opportunity

• FOE is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with FOE is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.