Mechanical Engineer Vehicle Structures

As a Mechanical Engineer Vehicle Structures at Carbon Robotics you will play a key role in developing new vehicle structures for robotic systems that will radically change how our customers do business. You will immediately bring your significant experience architecting designing analysing prototyping producing and supporting new products to multiple cornerstone programs currently under development. As part of a growing Mechanical Engineering team you’ll help mentor and grow junior engineers to help ensure the whole team succeeds. 

What you’ll do:

• Work on a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team to ensure the successful development deployment and sustainment of multiple revolutionary robotics products.
• Own significant elements of the architecture design analysis testing and support of the robotic vehicles primary structures aesthetic body panels and suspension/steering system integration. 
• Define requirements for support and at times lead structural qualification testing. 
• Lead initial production builds with the manufacturing team at our Richland Washington facility. 
• Own Standards and Compliance scoping and documentation for the products you design. 

• 5+ years of experience designing testing producing and supporting complex mechanical and structural parts assemblies and systems in the automotive agricultural aerospace or equivalent markets. 
• High level of proficiency in the use of CAD tools such as Solidworks and Analytical tools such as Ansys Mechanical and Ansys Motion. 
• Extensive knowledge of how to efficiently and effectively configure FEA simulations while knowing how to properly interpret the results and what degree to trust them. 
• Experience analyzing structural hardware and mounting systems for fatigue life durability and field reliability.
• Extensive experience designing and producing sheet metal bar stock machined weldments thermoplastic and composite parts. 

• Extensive experience designing for harsh outdoor environments to protect against water ingress rust corrosion and shock/vibe damage.

• Ability to quickly prototype troubleshoot and iterate designs with both deep ownership and collaboration. 
• Highly desired to have past experience working with a test engineering organization to set up operate and analyze results from structural qualification testing. 
• Solid familiarity with SAE DOT and other applicable codes and compliance to them. 
• Highly desired to have past experience as a Responsible Engineer. 
• Demonstrated ability to work with direct and matrixed management to achieve timely objectives. 
• Desire to support products in the production and field environments and a high level of comfort working directly with customers. Willingness to travel ~10% of the time to these locations. 
• BS+ in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.

What We Do

Carbon Robotics builds the industry-leading AI-powered LaserWeeder™ which combines computer vision AI deep learning technology robotics and lasers to identify crops versus weeds - and shoots the weeds with lasers. More than 100 of the world’s largest specialty crop growers have deployed LaserWeeders™ in North America Europe and Australia. This no-touch precision technology is effective day and night in over 100 crops in both organic and conventional farming. LaserWeeders™ are designed at Carbon Robotics headquarters in Seattle Washington and manufactured in our state of the art new manufacturing facility in Richland Washington. Carbon Robotics has raised $157 million in capital since 2018 from investors that include BOND NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) Anthos Capital Fuse Venture Capital Ignition Partners Revolution Sozo Ventures and Voyager Capital. What’s it like working at Carbon Robotics? We are a no-nonsense team of passionate people with a bias for action. We know that our ability to execute on our ideas is what sets us apart. We do what we say we are going to do externally and internally. We trust our people to act independently and make practical real-world decisions.

Why Work With Us

The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder™ implement uses precision computer vision and sophisticated AI to kill weeds with millimeter accuracy. Laserweeding delivers consistency that puts growers back in control of their schedules amid labor shortages chemical concerns and rising costs. For high-density crops laserweeding is the only automated solution.

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