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 yr

At Saildrone, we sustainably discover, map, and monitor the oceans to know, defend, and protect our world. We offer real-time entry to essential knowledge from any ocean on earth, 24/7/365, and use proprietary software program purposes to remodel 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 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 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 flooring and decreasing unlawful fishing and drug trafficking.

Because of our work, Saildrone has been included on Quick Firm’s annual record of the World’s Most Modern 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 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 Standard 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 crew on the cutting-edge intersection of huge knowledge providers and autonomous {hardware}. You can be an integral a part of a high-performing multi-disciplinary delivering excessive affect for humanity and future generations.

The Function

The {Hardware} Engineering Staff is in search of an keen, formidable, and hardworking Mechanical Engineer to affix our Mechanical Design crew. The perfect candidate will deliver 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 creating dependable autonomous techniques that function for months on finish within the open ocean.

Duties

• Owns the design and improvement of complicated electro mechanical components and assemblies associated to unmanned autonomous floor autos.
• Could act as a technical lead for a small crew of engineers within the improvement of a posh and embedded electro-mechanical system.
• Performs vital 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 expertise.
• Communicates proactively throughout division boundaries to allow success of their design.
• Interprets and applies tips and necessities from Third Celebration Authorities akin to ABS, DNVGL, and Bureau Veritas to make sure compliance with Marine Laws.
• Works carefully with Manufacturing Engineering to make sure a clean handoff of design to manufacturing.
• Is answerable for undertaking completion from early conception by means of 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 crew.
• Supplies mentorship for junior mechanical engineers.

Required Ability and Expertise

• Bachelors diploma in an engineering self-discipline (ideally mechanically centered) or equal area expertise and eight+ years of expertise.
• Experience designing for a wide range 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 laptop 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 Business 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 of stand, stroll, use arms to know, push and pull, bend, elevate as much as 50 lbs, and attain together with your arms and arms. Should be capable of carry out work on a pc that requires potential to function a keyboard and different peripheral gadgets.

Location: This place is in Alameda, CA. Our waterfront workplace gives 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 experience from the Ferry Constructing for SF residents
• Enhanced Parental Depart 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.

Compensate for the most recent information about us:

The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea – The New York Instances
Alameda’s Saildrones accumulate hurricane knowledge – KTVU Fox 2
File Setting: Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 Entered into Guinness Ebook
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 Seemed 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 In search of Information on Our Carbon Uptake – CNN
Saildrone Featured Movies Playlist

We’re an equal alternative employer and worth variety at our firm. We don’t discriminate on the premise of race, faith, shade, nationwide origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital standing, veteran standing, or incapacity standing.

At Saildrone, we worth variety and are dedicated to creating an inclusive office that welcomes folks from all backgrounds, experiences, and views. We consider {that a} various and inclusive crew results in innovation and higher problem-solving. We encourage purposes from candidates of all genders, ethnicities, races, sexual orientations, disabilities, and backgrounds.

Particular person compensation packages are primarily based on geographic location, scope of the function, related expertise, and the flexibility to cope with complexity and drawback remedy inside our group, amongst different elements.

All staff are required to offer proof of authorization to work within the U.S. inside their first 3 days of labor. Please be aware that the Firm doesn’t sponsor staff for work visas or everlasting resident playing cards to work within the U.S. When you want sponsorship for a piece visa or inexperienced card, you’ll not be certified for employment with Saildrone.

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