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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer – Dock
| Company | Zipline |
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| Location | San Bruno, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $160000 – $215000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Proven track record owning complex subassemblies or full systems over at least 3 product programs (concept, prototype, validation, production)
- Strong fundamentals: load estimation, structural hand calcs to guide part sizing, basic FEA and clean CAD designs.
- Familiarity with mechanism design and the integration of electrical components into hardware products
- Practical knowledge of manufacturing methods such as welding, sheetmetal forming, extrusion, CNC machining, injection molding, etc
- Experience partnering with contract manufacturers to ramp up production of high volume lines
- Demonstrated CAD fluency for system level ownership – 3D/2D of 20-40 parts simultaneously
- Disciplined processes: Your parts are released, BOMs are maintained, SOPs created for builds, and timelines are up-to-date
- Excellent communication – written, verbal, and visual. You know how to tailor to your audience with the right level of technical depth to be as effective as possible, including using basic tools in place of full CAD when it makes sense
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Ability to periodically (<10%) travel to visit customers and suppliers
- Must be eligible to work in the US and willing to relocate to Bay Area CA region
Responsibilities
- Develop innovative products for our ground systems equipment
- Solve complex problems with little direction and maximum autonomy
- Engineer systems that will only come together days before they are needed
- Make important decisions about the product architecture
- Create designs that will enable practical scale on a short timeline that will meet high product reliability targets
- Quickly iterate and downselect based on data from analysis and test results from prototypes
- Collaborate cross functionally with electrical, software, civil, NPI and supply chain teams to bring designs to production and into the field
- Act as a technical mentor and resource to others on the team, sharing best practices and reviewing work with junior members
Preferred Qualifications
- NX is your primary CAD tool
- Knowledge in applying appropriate FOS and margin to human safety critical application (design margin tables, structural joint calculations)
