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Mechanical Engineer - ATOMS

HireOTS
4 days ago
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States
Engineering
 

Company: Atoms (Transport, coming soon - wheelbase physical autonomy)


Press: TBPN, Atoms Launch Job Title: Mechanical Engineer


Headcount: 3+


YoE: 5+ minimum

Location / Travel: SF 


Team/Department: Transport: Mechanical / Hardware


Reporting to: Hardware Lead


Reason for hiring: Design on-road hardware stack


Offer Visa Sponsorship: Yes

 

Immediate Projects: 

 

  • Sensor integration on Kia

  • Compute housing redesign

  • Assembly documentation

  • DBW (Drive by Wire) integration

  • PCB housing and mounting

  • Harness design

  • Convert prototype designs to high volume production 


Responsibilities: Working with Industrial Design, in-house manufacturing team, vendors for prototype part runs and with manufacturing engineering


  • Refine current hardware kits for efficient scaling

  • Create and maintain documentation of design solutions including reports, engineering drawings, Bills of Material, and installation instructions

  • Develop testing and validation procedures for electromechanical systems

  • Build prototypes using various rapid prototyping technologies (e.g. 3D print, laser cut)

  • Automotive or heavy equipment industry experience strongly preferred

  • Familiarity with robotic systems is strongly preferred

  • Experience/ expertise with 3D CAD tools

  • Hands on experience building mechanical and/or electrical systems; machine shop and/or fabrication experience preferred

  • Experience designing for CNC machine, sheet metal fab, and 3D print

 

Tools/Technologies/Tech Stack: 

  • Solidworks + PDM

  • Knowledge of different types of sensors

  • Hand-tools + power tools

  • Machining (nice to have)


Must Have:

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Nice to Have:

  • Robotics experience

  • Mechatronics experience


Ideal Background:

  • Start-up

  • Automotive (small amount - not looking for career ford guy) - Tesla good

  • Robotics background


Ideal Education:

  • Mechanical Engineering BS or similar


Individual roadmap: 

  • Not fully defined yet


Growth potential:

  • Opportunities for Management

  • Opportunities for high level IC advancement

  • Opportunities to shift into more Manufacturing roles


Companies to Target:

  • Tesla

  • SpaceX

  • Humanoid potentially 

  • Zoox, Cruise, Waymo, Nuro etc

  • Zipline, Skydio 

  • Defense startups good

  • NO Defense conglomerates (avoid in general - tend to be slow and process driven)