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Falmouth, MA
Clearance Unspecified Polygraph not specified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
Salary not specified
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Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Mechanical Engineer with maritime experience. You will be part of a cross functional team designing, building, testing, and deploying unmanned maritime sensor systems.
We serve the national security industry and provides hardware, software, and data solutions that span levels of classification and are intended for operational deployment. Spear AI is a rapidly growing company with a commitment to rapid development of excellent products through continuous fielding. You will be in the lab and out on the water frequently.
Responsibilities
You will be the second and senior of the two mechanical engineers in the team. You will be expected to mentor the junior engineers and technicians. You should have at least some experience in most of the following areas:
Structural and Functional Design – Design and document mechanical systems applying both analysis and intuition as appropriate. Optimize for various factors and ensure compliance with requirements.
Design for operational maritime use including submerged systems – Design systems with an operator centric viewpoint that will survive and thrive in challenging maritime and submerged environments.
Produce Mechanical CAD artifacts including drawings, documentation, and revision control
Select Manufacturing processes – Determine appropriate manufacturing processes, generate appropriate documentation for technicians or suppliers, optimize designs for the use of selected processes. We place a high emphasis on distributed and/or low tech manufacturing and tend to avoid precision machining.
Additive Manufacturing – Spear relies heavily on additive manufacturing. Design parts for additive manufacturing, understand how to optimize additive manufacturing, determine appropriate testing regimens for additive parts.
Prototyping and Troubleshooting – Build, test, and troubleshoot prototypes of designs. We believe that engineers should be heavily involved in building the first few prototypes of their own work.
Handoff to manufacturing—Develop documentation, procedures, and artifacts to transition manufacturing processes to technicians.
Operational Testing – Plan, support and participate in operational testing of prototypes including bench testing and field testing to include going to sea during early stages of your prototype testing.
Incorporate feedback – Elicit and incorporate feedback from assembly and field technicians throughout the design cycle to improve performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness. Spear currently assembles all systems on-site, providing excellent opportunities to see processes in action.
Requirements
BS in Mechanical Engineering or Naval Architecture
5+ years of relevant experience OR 10+ years of highly relevant experience with a minimum of five years of experience working in a design role.
Prior maritime design experience
Familiarity with standard mechanical engineering tools and processes.
Extensive hands-on experience in prototyping, testing, and refinement of designs in the lab and preferably in a field environment.
Suitable written and verbal communication skills for working in a high performing development team.
Ability to physically participate in at sea deployment, test, and recovery operations including ability to lift, carry, and maneuver on a small boat at sea, communicate verbally, and carry out fine manipulations.
Desired
Solidworks preferred
Prior experience with small boats and at sea operations is strongly desired.
Prior experience with UxS is desired by not required.
We serve the national security industry and provides hardware, software, and data solutions that span levels of classification and are intended for operational deployment. Spear AI is a rapidly growing company with a commitment to rapid development of excellent products through continuous fielding. You will be in the lab and out on the water frequently.
Responsibilities
You will be the second and senior of the two mechanical engineers in the team. You will be expected to mentor the junior engineers and technicians. You should have at least some experience in most of the following areas:
Structural and Functional Design – Design and document mechanical systems applying both analysis and intuition as appropriate. Optimize for various factors and ensure compliance with requirements.
Design for operational maritime use including submerged systems – Design systems with an operator centric viewpoint that will survive and thrive in challenging maritime and submerged environments.
Produce Mechanical CAD artifacts including drawings, documentation, and revision control
Select Manufacturing processes – Determine appropriate manufacturing processes, generate appropriate documentation for technicians or suppliers, optimize designs for the use of selected processes. We place a high emphasis on distributed and/or low tech manufacturing and tend to avoid precision machining.
Additive Manufacturing – Spear relies heavily on additive manufacturing. Design parts for additive manufacturing, understand how to optimize additive manufacturing, determine appropriate testing regimens for additive parts.
Prototyping and Troubleshooting – Build, test, and troubleshoot prototypes of designs. We believe that engineers should be heavily involved in building the first few prototypes of their own work.
Handoff to manufacturing—Develop documentation, procedures, and artifacts to transition manufacturing processes to technicians.
Operational Testing – Plan, support and participate in operational testing of prototypes including bench testing and field testing to include going to sea during early stages of your prototype testing.
Incorporate feedback – Elicit and incorporate feedback from assembly and field technicians throughout the design cycle to improve performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness. Spear currently assembles all systems on-site, providing excellent opportunities to see processes in action.
Requirements
BS in Mechanical Engineering or Naval Architecture
5+ years of relevant experience OR 10+ years of highly relevant experience with a minimum of five years of experience working in a design role.
Prior maritime design experience
Familiarity with standard mechanical engineering tools and processes.
Extensive hands-on experience in prototyping, testing, and refinement of designs in the lab and preferably in a field environment.
Suitable written and verbal communication skills for working in a high performing development team.
Ability to physically participate in at sea deployment, test, and recovery operations including ability to lift, carry, and maneuver on a small boat at sea, communicate verbally, and carry out fine manipulations.
Desired
Solidworks preferred
Prior experience with small boats and at sea operations is strongly desired.
Prior experience with UxS is desired by not required.
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