Senior Mechanical Engineer

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Location : San Francisco, CA (full time, in-person)

Company Overview

Our mission is to

accelerate the construction of critical infrastructure on Earth

while pioneering technologies to enable humanity to build beyond 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.

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.

This is a rare opportunity to :

Work on hard, meaningful problems that impact the future of infrastructure and energy.

Collaborate with a world-class team from NASA, SpaceX, Google, Built Robotics, and others.

Rapidly grow, learn, and lead within a quickly scaling company.

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 softwares 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

Bonus

5+ years of professional engineering experience in mechanical design

Experience designing or developing high volume large form factor products like automobiles and construction equipment

Experience in mechanical design of ultrahigh reliability products like spacecraft and medical devices

Management and recruiting experience

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