{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, shield, and protect our world. We offer real-time entry to essential information from any ocean on earth, 24/7/365, and use proprietary software program functions to remodel that information into actionable insights and intelligence.
Our fleet of uncrewed floor automobiles (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 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, received 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 Common Science’s 100 Best Improvements of 2021.
We’re based mostly in Alameda, CA, with workplaces in Washington DC and St. Petersburg, FL, and function our missions worldwide. Saildrone is backed by top-tier traders 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 workforce on the cutting-edge intersection of huge information companies 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 Position
The {Hardware} Engineering Staff is looking for an keen, bold, and hardworking Mechanical Engineer to affix our Mechanical Design workforce. The best candidate will carry related expertise from the Marine Business with information of composite constructions, mechanisms, actuated and electro-mechanical assemblies, thermal and energy technology 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 improvement of advanced electro mechanical components and assemblies associated to unmanned autonomous floor automobiles.
- Could act as a technical lead for a small workforce of engineers within the improvement of a posh and embedded electro-mechanical system.
- Performs essential 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 tips and necessities from Third Social gathering Authorities corresponding to ABS, DNVGL, and Bureau Veritas to make sure compliance with Marine Rules.
- Works intently with Manufacturing Engineering to make sure a clean handoff of design to manufacturing.
- Is liable for undertaking completion from early conception by means 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 workforce.
- Offers 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 a wide range of manufacturing processes corresponding 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 well-liked.
- Need and skill to thrive in a fast-paced R&D and manufacturing setting.
- Expertise within the Marine Business most well-liked.
- Expertise with a number of product launches.
- Expertise working with fabrication outlets and contract producers.
- Proactive problem-solving expertise.
Bodily Necessities
- Should be capable to stand, stroll, use fingers to understand, push and pull, bend, raise 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 skill 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 all the time sunny Alameda. Even our partitions have good karma, our workplaces combine software program improvement 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 stress-free ferry journey from the Ferry Constructing for SF residents
- Enhanced Parental Depart Packages
- Aggressive advantages together with glorious medical, life insurance coverage, 401k plan
An inexpensive estimate of the present vary is $132,000-$172,000 yearly.
Compensate for the newest information about us:
The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea – The New York Occasions
Alameda’s Saildrones gather hurricane information – 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 Programs
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 Searching for Information on Our Carbon Uptake – CNN
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