About the Role
As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will own a critical Cosmic-1 subsystem and lead development from concept to deployment. As a core member of the team, you will help define the era of autonomous construction.
Responsibilities
- Own hardware components and systems such as primary and secondary structures, mechanisms, and enclosures
- Full product lifecycle ownership from requirements collection, trade studies, preliminary and detailed design, structural analysis, and overseeing manufacturing, integration, testing, and customer delivery
- Work with manufacturing, electrical, software, and product engineers to develop innovative new solutions to complex interdisciplinary problems
- Work with vendors and suppliers to find creative solutions to tight deadlines
- Set milestones, plan roadmaps, and deliver on ambitious timelines
- Recruit, mentor, and build a world-class engineering organization
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional engineering experience
- Excellent first-principles understanding of statics, dynamics, heat transfer, materials, and corrosion
- Expert mechanical design skills using CAD software such as Solidworks, NX, PTC Creo, etc. and FEA analysis with ANSYS
- Strong understanding of designing for manufacturing processes such as CNC milling/lathing, sheet metal bending, welding, and 3D printing
- Excellent communication and project management skills
- Thrive in fast-paced environments and push boundaries to meet deadlines
Skills
- Solidworks
- NX
- PTC Creo
- ANSYS
- CNC milling/lathing
- Sheet metal bending
- Welding
- 3D printing
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- full-time
- in-person
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Our mission is to build a city on Mars and accelerate the construction of critical infrastructure on Earth.
- Starting with Cosmic-1 – a system that installs solar panels 10x faster than today’s methods, helping us transition to a clean energy future and laying the groundwork for the future of autonomous construction.
