Senior Mechanical Engineer
About the Role
Seasats deploys unmanned surface vessels (USVs) on multi-month missions that rely on top-quality mechanical systems. Our mechanical engineering team designs and builds these systems, providing customers with products they can count on. Our team has grown to keep pace with rapidly multiplying projects, and now we’re looking to recruit a senior engineer. This person will remove bottlenecks and execute plans, work with mechanical and vehicle design leadership, and mentor and coach junior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Designing parts and assemblies
- Working with junior engineers
- Assisting in timeline and plan creation
- Shaping design and organizational processes within the engineering team
- Reviewing, detailing, and configuration management of CAD models
- Designing (CAD) fixtures, tooling, jigs
- Sourcing and communicating with suppliers
- Filling out vehicle BOM and evaluating production/procurement options
- Searching for speed and process refinements to increase production efficiency
- Assembly and Q&A of incoming parts from external suppliers
- Testing new and existing designs of components of the vehicles
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working on high-performance and/or high-volume parts in a team environment
- Expertise in Solidworks
- Maritime background from extensive work and/or play on and around the ocean
- Experience working in smaller mechanical engineering teams
- Experience with outsourcing parts to external vendors/fabricators
- Basic understanding of electrical and software needs for electro-mechanical systems
- Experience with combustion engines and hybrid systems
- Experience in maritime systems engineering and integration
Qualifications
- A high degree of individual autonomy and a get-stuff-done attitude
- A deep understanding of mechanical engineering, structures, assembly, DFM trade-offs, and fabrication methods
- An understanding of how different manufacturing processes (i.e., CNC milling, 3D printing, waterjet, etc.) affect design
- The ability to take a napkin sketch, create a first draft CAD model, receive feedback from the team, and proceed iteratively
- Communication skills – with vendors and internal team
- Organizational skills – tracking BOMs, following up with suppliers, etc.
- Attention to detail – understanding of GD&T, creating drawings for suppliers, etc.
- Experience in startups, competitions, or similarly tight-timeline settings
Preferred Qualifications
- An understanding of basic naval architecture
- Basic understanding of composites
- Understanding of autonomous systems
About Seasats
At Seasats, we're passionate about delivering maritime robotics solutions to redefine the maritime industry. Our primary products are unmanned surface vessels (USVs), designed to carry sensors at sea for months at a time. Our USVs provide persistent monitoring and data acquisition to defense, scientific, and commercial customers and have autonomously crossed both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. After thousands of years in which the only way to gather information from the ocean was to put people on a boat, these uncrewed vessels are transforming how humanity monitors and interacts with the ocean. Here, you’ll find the space and opportunity to do your life’s best work.
Benefits
- Competitive insurance (including a 99% employer-covered Gold HMO plan or other options)
- 401k matching up to 4% of salary
- Four free lunches per week
- An employee activity fund
- A pet-friendly office
- Unlimited/Flex PTO
Location: San Diego, CA | Salary: $120,000 - $160,000 / yr + stock options