About the Role
Own the deployable dock from architecture to deployed hardware, including container-packaged structure, load paths, and rapid-deploy mechanisms. This founding mechanical role involves sizing and analyzing structures for maritime loads, designing mechanisms for deployment, driving fabrication, and balancing weight, cost, and schedule.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and see mechanical hardware work in maritime, marine, offshore, or naval structures.
- Apply structures and mechanisms fundamentals, including FEA, fatigue, weldments, and mechanism design.
- Work with steel and aluminum, weldments, and marine-grade materials and coatings.
- Get hands-on with fabrication and own vendor relationships.
Requirements
- Experience with deployable, foldable, or transportable structures.
- Background in hydraulics, winches, or actuation.
- Exposure to naval architecture, ABS or class rules, or offshore experience.
- 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
- FEA
- Fatigue analysis
- Weldment design
- Mechanism design
- Maritime structures
- Maritime mechanisms
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- Founding team member
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000–$250,000 base
Benefits
- Founding-team equity
- Benefits
About the Company
- First Order Effects (FOE) is building America's Infrastructure Prime for the robotic era.
- FOE builds infrastructure for autonomous ships, drones, and robots.
- The team has experience from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, Lockheed Skunk Works, Forterra, and Fuse Energy.
- The team has previously built cutting-edge systems such as satellite ground stations, multi-megawatt power systems, and autonomous surface vessels.
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.
