Senior Mechanical Engineer

About this role

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (full time, in-person)

Company Overview

Our mission is to build a city on Mars and accelerate the construction of critical infrastructure on Earth. Starting with Cosmic-1 – a system that installs solar panels 10x faster than today’s methods, helping us transition to a clean energy future and laying the groundwork for the future of autonomous construction.

The Role

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will own a critical Cosmic-1 subsystem and lead development from concept to deployment. As a core member of the team, you will help define the era of autonomous construction.

This is a rare opportunity to:

- Work on hard, meaningful problems that impact the future of infrastructure and energy.

- Collaborate with a world-class team from NASA, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Built Robotics, and others.

- Rapidly grow, learn, and lead within a quickly scaling company.

Responsibilities

- Own hardware components and systems such as primary and secondary structures, mechanisms, and enclosures

- Full product lifecycle ownership from requirements collection, trade studies, preliminary and detailed design, structural analysis, and overseeing manufacturing, integration, testing, and customer delivery

- Work with manufacturing, electrical, software, and product engineers to develop innovative new solutions to complex interdisciplinary problems

- Work with vendors and suppliers to find creative solutions to tight deadlines

- Set milestones, plan roadmaps, and deliver on ambitious timelines

- Recruit, mentor, and build a world-class engineering organization

Requirements

- 3+ years of professional engineering experience

- Excellent first-principles understanding of statics, dynamics, heat transfer, materials, and corrosion

- Expert mechanical design skills using CAD software such as Solidworks, NX, PTC Creo, etc. and FEA analysis with ANSYS

- Strong understanding of designing for manufacturing processes such as CNC milling/lathing, sheet metal bending, welding, and 3D printing

- Excellent communication and project management skills

- Thrive in fast-paced environments and push boundaries to meet deadlines

Bonus

- 5+ years of professional engineering experience in mechanical design

- Experience designing or developing high volume large form factor products like automobiles and construction equipment

- Experience in mechanical design of ultrahigh reliability products like spacecraft and medical devices

- Management and recruiting experience