As a Senior or Staff Mechanical Engineer in our Hardware Integration team you will be responsible for engineering support structures for the sensor stack, aesthetic covers, and establishing the processes needed to do this at a low & medium volume production scale today and prepare for high volume production in the future. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering high quality vehicle builds following best engineering practices & standards. Your area of expertise is design of mechanical structural assemblies & integration of electronic components, preferably in the automotive industry. You are excited about generating new design ideas in CAD and are comfortable with hand-tools and rapid prototyping fabrication to test out your design.
This role requires working onsite 5 days a week from our Mountain View headquarters.
Lead the engineering efforts for the mechanical design & analysis from ideation to drawing release
Take ownership of subsystems or complex component assemblies on and off the vehicles
Perform FE analyses on your design to validate it against the use case (static, natural frequency,etc).
Champion the DFM, DFA & DFS efforts during the design cycle.
Closely collaborate with validation team in creation & execution of the test plan
Perform detailed calculations of selected components eg. bolted/ welded/ bonded joints, seals, etc.
Perform tolerance stack-up analysis for your design and use appropriate GD&T strategy.
Work on cooling solutions for sensors & other electronic components.
Own the BOM for your design & work cross functionally with procurement & manufacturing for downstream processes.
Build and bring-up prototype vehicles following best engineering practices & standards.
Lead, mentor and grow the mechanical engineering discipline by creating standards & processes.