Mechanical Engineer Vehicle Thermal Management

As a Mechanical Engineer Vehicle Thermal Management Systems at Carbon Robotics you will play a key role in developing the mechanical systems that enable our diesel-electric platform and enhance the operation of our Laser Weeding systems. You will immediately bring your significant experience designing and integrating thermal management systems into vehicles while balancing performance reliability and serviceability of your solutions to revolutionize agricultural vehicles. 

What you'll do:

• Define and select core off the shelf semi-custom components and consumables of the thermal management system including chillers radiators oil coolers heat exchangers housings pumps and refrigerant selection.
• Architect complete cooling systems for diesel engines generators motors inverters batteries hydraulics laser computer and auxiliary systems operating in rugged dusty high-load environments.
• Perform thermal load analysis pressure drop calculations flow distribution studies and heat rejection tradeoffs across multiple operating modes and duty cycles.
• Design and review coolant routing hose and hard-line layouts fittings and sealing strategies for reliability in agricultural environments. 
• Use CAD and analytical tools to support thermal structural and vibration simulation of thermal system components and mounting systems.
• Lead thermal validation testing including thermal soak heat rejection testing fouling evaluation and field data correlation.
• Support prototype builds field trials and production issues diagnosing and resolving thermal performance gaps. 
• Act as a Responsible Engineer or thermal subsystem owner working with suppliers to define requirements and validate solutions.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities for Success:

• 6–15 years of experience designing and validating thermal management systems for automotive off-highway agricultural or heavy equipment applications.
• Proficiency in CAD (SolidWorks) and Ansys CFD or equivalent tools for thermal analysis.
• Deep experience with radiators oil coolers charge-air coolers chillers pumps fans coolant circuits refrigerant selection rationale and thermal interface materials.
• Experience integrating thermal hardware into vehicles including packaging mounting serviceability and durability considerations.
• Knowledge of automotive/agricultural durability requirements and validation testing procedures highly desired. 
• Familiarity with supplier-provided thermal data test reports and performance maps with the ability to challenge and validate assumptions.
• Highly desired to have past experience as a Responsible Engineer or IPT lead. 
• Willingness to travel ~10% of the time to support products in the production & field environments with a demonstrated ability to work directly with internal and external stakeholders/customers
• BS+ in Mechanical Engineering or related with focus on machine design automotive engineering or related field.

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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