{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 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 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 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, gathering new CO2 information in hard-to-reach areas, and counting fish biomass to tell sustainable fishery administration, to mapping the ocean flooring and decreasing 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 Revolutionary Corporations, earned an Ocean Awards’ Innovation Award, received Greatest Tech For Good from the Timmy Awards, and was acknowledged by Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism 50 checklist of the Prime 50 Corporations 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 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 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 group on the cutting-edge intersection of huge information providers and autonomous {hardware}. You can be an integral a part of a high-performing multi-disciplinary delivering excessive influence for humanity and future generations.
The Function
The {Hardware} Engineering Workforce is searching for an keen, bold, and hardworking Mechanical Engineer to hitch our Mechanical Design group. The perfect candidate will convey related expertise from the Marine Trade with data of composite constructions, mechanisms, actuated and electro-mechanical assemblies, thermal and energy technology methods, and an understanding of the challenges related to creating dependable autonomous methods that function for months on finish within the open ocean.
Duties
- Owns the design and improvement of complicated electro mechanical elements and assemblies associated to unmanned autonomous floor autos.
- Could act as a technical lead for a small group 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 selections.
- 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 Get together Authorities akin to ABS, DNVGL, and Bureau Veritas to make sure compliance with Marine Rules.
- Works carefully with Manufacturing Engineering to make sure a easy handoff of design to manufacturing.
- Is chargeable for challenge completion from early conception by means of design and manufacturing.
- Helps scheduling efforts and coordinates with Venture Managers.
- Collaborates with Electrical Engineering and opinions harness designs.
- Maintains drafting requirements and helps to enhance the standard of labor throughout the mechanical group.
- Offers 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 quite a lot of manufacturing processes akin 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 well-liked.
- Need and talent to thrive in a fast-paced R&D and manufacturing setting.
- Expertise within the Marine Trade most well-liked.
- Expertise with a number of product launches.
- Expertise working with fabrication retailers and contract producers.
- Proactive problem-solving expertise.
Bodily Necessities
- Should be capable to stand, stroll, use fingers to understand, push and pull, bend, carry as much as 50 lbs, and attain together with your fingers and arms. Should be capable to carry out work on a pc that requires capacity to function a keyboard and different peripheral gadgets.
Location: This place is in Alameda, CA. Our waterfront workplace affords stunning views of San Francisco Bay in at all times 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.
- Brief and enjoyable ferry experience from the Ferry Constructing for SF residents
- Enhanced Parental Depart Packages
- Aggressive advantages together with wonderful medical, life insurance coverage, 401k plan
An affordable 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 Occasions
Alameda’s Saildrones acquire hurricane information – KTVU Fox 2
Report Setting: Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 Entered into Guinness Ebook
Saildrone Takes the Wraps Off its Voyager Autonomous Analysis Car – 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 Appeared Like, from Atop a 50-foot Wave – The Washington Publish
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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At Saildrone, we worth range and are dedicated to creating an inclusive office that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and views. We imagine {that a} numerous and inclusive group results in innovation and higher problem-solving. We encourage functions from candidates of all genders, ethnicities, races, sexual orientations, disabilities, and backgrounds.
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