Lead Mechanical Engineer - Vehicle
THE TEAM & PURPOSE:
- The Virgin Hyperloop One Pod team is responsible for designing and delivering the hyperloop passenger vehicle. The Pod team has primary ownership of the vehicle’s structures, thermal management systems, interiors, and environmental control and life support systems. We’re a multidisciplinary, cross-functional team that designs and integrates numerous systems across the pod.
THE ROLE:
- Full ownership of the mechanical design of complex sub-systems including the vehicle’s chassis, structure, mechanisms, or suspension from conceptualization through testing and production
- Create solutions to meet challenging requirements
- Analyze and verify the design with hand calculations and FEA
- Create and maintain CAD models of components and assemblies
- Define the scope of component or subscale tests and deliver on the build of required mechanical components to mitigate design risks
- Work with internal teams and external vendors to ensure timely build and delivery of functional hardware
- Develop team guidelines, processes and best practices to ensure consistent, high-quality engineering design in all products; leverage industry best practices
THE CANDIDATE:
- Strong intuition and knowledge within mechanical system designs, from first principles concepts through design of production hardware
- Ability to thrive in a technically-uncertain environment
- Willingness to work in a fast-paced engineering environment, make decisions, and effectively lead tasks and meet challenging deadlines
MINIMUM REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
- S. or M.S. in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related engineering field
- Understanding mechanical design sizing and modeling at various levels of fidelity from roughly-sized concepts to fully-detailed models analyzed against a suite of load cases
- Knowledge of attachments and joints (bolts and screws, pins, welding, joint stiffness)
- Strong knowledge of mechanics of materials (stress, strain, stiffness, torsion, bending, buckling, structural shapes)
- Knowledge of general structural materials (carbon and alloy steels, aluminum)
- Proficient level skill in at least one CAD package, strong working knowledge of GD&T
- Working familiarity with Finite Element Analysis (common constraints and load types and their behavior, a strong sense for good approximations of physical situations, basic meshing)
- Hands-on knowledge of manufacturing and fabrication methods
- Knowledge of dynamic mechanical systems and basic structural dynamics (damping, stiffness, resonance, modes and mode shapes, transient response)
- Experience taking a mechanical design from concept through release, build, test and to product
- Experience with a certified aviation or aerospace structure or mechanism
- Deep experience in GD&T, exact constraints
- Design of critical load-bearing structures
- Experience with validation and verification of mechanical systems using laboratory and in-field testing
- Design of actuated electromechanical assemblies (e.g. involving rotary or linear motors, lead or ball screws, load transfer latches, instrumentation and control)
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