Saildrone – Senior Mechanical Engineer – sUAS Information – The Enterprise of Drones
{Hardware} Engineering | Alameda, CA | Full Time | From $132,000.00 to $172,000.00 per 12 months
At Saildrone, we sustainably discover, map, and monitor the oceans to grasp, shield, and protect our world. We offer real-time entry to important knowledge from any ocean on earth, 24/7/365, and use proprietary software program functions to rework that knowledge 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 help vessel. Saildrone works with governments, civil companies, foundations, universities, and personal firms 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 knowledge about how storms intensify, amassing new CO2 knowledge 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 checklist of the World’s Most Modern Firms, earned an Ocean Awards’ Innovation Award, gained Greatest Tech For Good from the Timmy Awards, and was acknowledged by Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism 50 checklist of the High 50 Firms Kickstarting American Renewal. Our first-annual Atlantic hurricane mission with NOAA was included as one in every of The New York Instances’ 21 Issues That Occurred for the First Time in 2021 and Well-liked Science’s 100 Best Improvements of 2021.
We’re based mostly in Alameda, CA, with places of work 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 knowledge companies and autonomous {hardware}. You’ll be an integral a part of a high-performing multi-disciplinary delivering excessive influence for humanity and future generations.
The Function
The {Hardware} Engineering Staff is searching for an keen, formidable, and hardworking Mechanical Engineer to hitch our Mechanical Design staff. The perfect candidate will deliver related expertise from the Marine Trade with information of composite buildings, mechanisms, actuated and electro-mechanical assemblies, thermal and energy era programs, and an understanding of the challenges related to growing dependable autonomous programs that function for months on finish within the open ocean.
Obligations
- Owns the design and growth of advanced electro mechanical components and assemblies associated to unmanned autonomous floor autos.
- Could act as a technical lead for a small staff of engineers within the growth of a posh and embedded electro-mechanical system.
- Performs crucial calculations and testing to de-risk, validate, and inform design choices.
- Willingness and need to be hand-on throughout proof of idea and prototype phases with primary fabrication and meeting expertise.
- Communicates proactively throughout division boundaries to allow success of their design.
- Interprets and applies pointers and necessities from Third Social gathering Authorities corresponding 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 chargeable for mission completion from early conception by way of design and manufacturing.
- Helps scheduling efforts and coordinates with Mission Managers.
- Collaborates with Electrical Engineering and critiques harness designs.
- Maintains drafting requirements and helps to enhance the standard of labor throughout the mechanical staff.
- Gives mentorship for junior mechanical engineers.
Required Ability and Expertise
- Bachelors diploma in an engineering self-discipline (ideally mechanically targeted) or equal discipline expertise and eight+ years of expertise.
- Experience designing for a wide range of manufacturing processes corresponding to welding, composite layups, CNC machining, sheet steel, 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.
- Need and skill to thrive in a fast-paced R&D and manufacturing setting.
- Expertise within the Marine Trade most popular.
- Expertise with a number of product launches.
- Expertise working with fabrication retailers and contract producers.
- Proactive problem-solving expertise.
Bodily Necessities
- Should have the ability to stand, stroll, use fingers to know, push and pull, bend, carry as much as 50 lbs, and attain together with your fingers and arms. Should have the ability to carry out work on a pc that requires capacity to function a keyboard and different peripheral units.
Location: This place is in Alameda, CA. Our waterfront workplace provides stunning views of San Francisco Bay in at all times sunny Alameda. Even our partitions have good karma, our places of work 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 journey from the Ferry Constructing for SF residents
- Enhanced Parental Go away Packages
- Aggressive advantages together with wonderful medical, life insurance coverage, 401k plan
An inexpensive estimate of the present vary is $132,000-$172,000 yearly.
Atone for the most recent information about us:
The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea – The New York Instances
Alameda’s Saildrones acquire hurricane knowledge – KTVU Fox 2
Report Setting: Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 Entered into Guinness Guide
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 Techniques
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 Submit
An Unprecedented View Inside a Hurricane – EOS
They Sailed Right into a Hurricane, Now These Unmanned Saildrones are In search of Knowledge on Our Carbon Uptake – CNN
Saildrone Featured Movies Playlist
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At Saildrone, we worth range and are dedicated to creating an inclusive office that welcomes folks from all backgrounds, experiences, and views. We imagine {that a} various and inclusive staff results in innovation and higher problem-solving. We encourage functions from candidates of all genders, ethnicities, races, sexual orientations, disabilities, and backgrounds.
Particular person compensation packages are based mostly on geographic location, scope of the function, related expertise, and the flexibility to take care of complexity and downside resolve inside our group, amongst different elements.
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