The Role
Leads mechanical hardware development for autonomous vehicles from design and testing through production. Responsibilities include designing and validating vehicle hardware, creating specifications and procedures, coordinating subsystems and contract manufacturers, conducting design reviews, producing manufacturing-ready parts and BOMs, managing engineering changes, and ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.
Summary Generated by Built In
ISEE is seeking a full-time Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of work experience and has been through the product development lifecycle. This candidate will be responsible for overseeing multiple new development projects, owning new hardware development from design and testing through production, writing specification documents for newly designed systems, and ensuring designs meet any and all regulatory needs. Previous work in the automotive industry is a bonus, but not a necessity.
Role responsibilities include:
- Design, integrate, and validate hardware for autonomous vehicles
- Build schedules for new hardware initiatives
- Create engineering specifications and coordinate development work on various vehicle subsystems
- Develop assembly and test procedures
- Work with contract manufacturers to ensure proper delivery of components
- Lead design reviews
- Design parts for manufacturing and BOM creation
- Manage engineering changes for updates to existing vehicles
- Work with Hardware team to ensure safety through all stages of development
Qualifications:
- Bachelors/Masters in Mechanical Engineering
- 5+ years relevant industry experience designing products for production
- Familiarity with GD&T and generation of engineering drawings and documentation
- Familiarity with CAD Software (Solidworks, Fusion 360, NX)
- Experience designing both sheet metal and machined parts
- Experience with designing for outdoor or harsh environments (particulate ingress, water ingress, UV exposure, shock and vibe, high temp, etc)
- Basic hand tool knowledge and experience
- Excellent communication skills
Preferred:
- Experience with plastic injection molding
- Passionate about AI, robotics, and self-driving cars
- Startup work experience
- Robotics and logistics experience a plus
- Familiarity with a machine shop
- Familiarity with automotive systems
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience designing products for production
- Experience with product development lifecycle
- Familiarity with GD&T and engineering drawings and documentation
- Familiarity with CAD software, including SolidWorks, Fusion 360, or NX
- Experience designing sheet metal and machined parts
- Experience designing for outdoor or harsh environments
- Basic hand tool knowledge and experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience with plastic injection molding
- Passion for AI, robotics, and self-driving cars
- Startup work experience
- Robotics and logistics experience
- Familiarity with a machine shop
- Familiarity with automotive systems
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The Company
What We Do
ISEE is an autonomous driving technology company, spun out of MIT, whose humanistic, AI-powered, self-driving yard trucks are modernizing the global supply chain for the world’s leading companies. ISEE autonomous yard trucks are helping customers like Maersk, Lazerspot, and Fortune 100 retail companies automate their logistics hubs and achieve even greater yard safety, cost savings, consistent driving performance, and reliable driving capacity. With proprietary technology that anticipates unexpected behavior better than any other solution on the market, ISEE is poised to become a leader in the $100B global autonomous yard truck market.
