{Hardware} Engineering | Alameda, CA | Full Time | From $132,000.00 to $172,000.00 per yr
At Saildrone, we sustainably discover, map, and monitor the oceans to grasp, defend, and protect our world. We offer real-time entry to important information from any ocean on earth, 24/7/365, and use proprietary software program purposes to remodel that information into actionable insights and intelligence.
Our fleet of uncrewed floor autos (USVs), powered by renewable wind and solar energy, have a minimal carbon footprint and function with out the necessity for a crewed assist vessel. Saildrone works with governments, civil businesses, foundations, universities, and personal corporations across the globe to drive higher details about our oceans and seas—from crusing into the attention of a class 4 hurricane to acquire new information about how storms intensify, accumulating new CO2 information in hard-to-reach areas, and counting fish biomass to tell sustainable fishery administration, to mapping the ocean ground and lowering unlawful fishing and drug trafficking.
On account of our work, Saildrone has been included on Quick Firm’s annual record of the World’s Most Progressive Firms, earned an Ocean Awards’ Innovation Award, gained Finest Tech For Good from the Timmy Awards, and was acknowledged by Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism 50 record of the Prime 50 Firms Kickstarting American Renewal. Our first-annual Atlantic hurricane mission with NOAA was included as one in every of The New York Occasions’ 21 Issues That Occurred for the First Time in 2021 and In style Science’s 100 Best Improvements of 2021.
We’re primarily based in Alameda, CA, with workplaces in Washington DC and St. Petersburg, FL, and function our missions worldwide. Saildrone is backed by top-tier buyers within the frontier tech and sustainability sectors, together with Social Capital, Capricorn, Lux Capital, BOND Capital, and Emerson Collective.
That is an thrilling alternative with a fast-growing staff on the cutting-edge intersection of huge information providers and autonomous {hardware}. You’ll be an integral a part of a high-performing multi-disciplinary delivering excessive impression for humanity and future generations.
The Function
The {Hardware} Engineering Crew is looking for an keen, bold, and hardworking Mechanical Engineer to affix our Mechanical Design staff. The perfect candidate will carry related expertise from the Marine Business with information of composite buildings, mechanisms, actuated and electro-mechanical assemblies, thermal and energy era techniques, and an understanding of the challenges related to growing dependable autonomous techniques that function for months on finish within the open ocean.
Obligations
- Owns the design and growth of complicated electro mechanical components and assemblies associated to unmanned autonomous floor autos.
- Might act as a technical lead for a small staff of engineers within the growth of a fancy and embedded electro-mechanical system.
- Performs crucial calculations and testing to de-risk, validate, and inform design selections.
- Willingness and need to be hand-on throughout proof of idea and prototype phases with fundamental fabrication and meeting abilities.
- Communicates proactively throughout division boundaries to allow success of their design.
- Interprets and applies pointers and necessities from Third Celebration Authorities similar to ABS, DNVGL, and Bureau Veritas to make sure compliance with Marine Laws.
- Works carefully with Manufacturing Engineering to make sure a easy handoff of design to manufacturing.
- Is answerable for undertaking completion from early conception by design and manufacturing.
- Helps scheduling efforts and coordinates with Challenge Managers.
- Collaborates with Electrical Engineering and opinions harness designs.
- Maintains drafting requirements and helps to enhance the standard of labor throughout the mechanical staff.
- Supplies mentorship for junior mechanical engineers.
Required Talent and Expertise
- Bachelors diploma in an engineering self-discipline (ideally mechanically centered) or equal discipline expertise and eight+ years of expertise.
- Experience designing for quite a lot of manufacturing processes similar to welding, composite layups, CNC machining, sheet metallic, castings, 3D printing and structural bonding.
- Expertise creating electro-mechanical assemblies and an understanding {of electrical} engineering fundamentals.
- Expertise performing structural and thermal evaluation utilizing each hand calcs and pc aided simulation.
- Expertise with 3D modeling software program, Nx most popular.
- Want and talent to thrive in a fast-paced R&D and manufacturing setting.
- Expertise within the Marine Business most popular.
- Expertise with a number of product launches.
- Expertise working with fabrication outlets and contract producers.
- Proactive problem-solving abilities.
Bodily Necessities
- Should be capable to stand, stroll, use fingers to understand, push and pull, bend, carry as much as 50 lbs, and attain along with your fingers and arms. Should be capable to carry out work on a pc that requires capability to function a keyboard and different peripheral gadgets.
Location: This place is in Alameda, CA. Our waterfront workplace gives lovely views of San Francisco Bay in all the time sunny Alameda. Even our partitions have good karma, our workplaces combine software program growth with a {hardware} manufacturing line within the former airplane hangar used to movie ‘The Matrix’.
Advantages:
- Medical, dental and imaginative and prescient plans for you and your dependents.
- Quick and enjoyable ferry trip from the Ferry Constructing for SF residents
- Enhanced Parental Depart Packages
- Aggressive advantages together with glorious medical, life insurance coverage, 401k plan
An affordable estimate of the present vary is $132,000-$172,000 yearly.
Make amends for the most recent information about us:
The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea – The New York Occasions
Alameda’s Saildrones acquire hurricane information – KTVU Fox 2
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Saildrone Takes the Wraps Off its Voyager Autonomous Analysis Automobile – TechCrunch
An Underwater Mountain was Newly Found off California Coast – San Francisco Chronicle
The Quest for CO2: You Can’t Seize What You Can’t Discover – Inside Unmanned Methods
Hacking the Anthropocene with Survivalist Robots [VIDEO] – Freethink
Right here’s What Hurricane Fiona’s Surf Regarded Like, from Atop a 50-foot Wave – The Washington Put up
An Unprecedented View Inside a Hurricane – EOS
They Sailed Right into a Hurricane, Now These Unmanned Saildrones are Looking for Information on Our Carbon Uptake – CNN
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