engineering
Posted Mar 16Senior/Staff Mechanical Design Engineer
Louisville, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- The design, manufacturing, and testing of their products is done in-house at their headquarters in Louisville, Colorado.
Requirements
- At 12 kW/kg continuous, the HPDM family of integrated motor drives is a step change in electric propulsion technology and removes one of the main barriers blocking widespread proliferation of electric and hybrid aircraft.
- Qualifications - Bachelor’s or Graduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar. - Hands-on
- experience with producing 2D part drawings & GD&T. -
- Experience with static structural FEA (ANSYS preferred) (Familiarity with thermal and modal analysis preferred).
- - A high degree of emotional intelligence: ability to collaborate closely with coworkers in a respectful and empathetic manner.
- They have developed a family of integrated motor drives that can scale in power from 30kW to 30MW with power densities as high as 12 kW/kg and best-in-class efficiency.
- H3X’s world-class team is composed of experts from Tesla, SpaceX, GE Aviation, and Siemens with deep knowledge in electric machines, power electronics, material science, control systems, and advanced manufacturing.
Experience
- experience assembling mechanical systems. - 6+ years of CAD software
Benefits
- Benefits & Compensation - Annual Salary Target $135,000- $200,000 based on
- experience (Senior to Staff level) - Employee equity incentive plan - Health insurance: medical, vision, dental, ST & LT disability, and life - Gym membership stipend (up to $60/month) - Outdoor Recreation Reimbursement ($900 annual maximum) - Flexible hours (deliverable-based goals) - Flexible time off (just need manager approval) - Relocation package - Monthly company events - 401k program The Company H3X Technologies is a U.S.-based manufacturer of electric motors for sustainable aviation, marine,
Contact
- About the Role At H3X https://www.h3x.tech/, we are building the most advanced electric motors in the world for sustainable aviation, marine, industrial, and defense applications.
Additional details
- Our motors range in size from 30 kW to 30 MW, include integrated drives, and are 3X lighter than competitors’ systems.
- Mechanical design engineers are responsible for bringing new designs to life from clean sheet concept generation through early prototype testing.
- Mechanical Design Engineers will work with highly interdisciplinary teams to bring H3X products to life.
- The engineering team operates like Skunkworks - small, highly technical, and very fast.
- All mechanical design engineers are given significant design freedom and will be directly responsible for flight-critical parts.
- Responsibilities Requirements/Concept - Establish and document
- requirements - Conceptualize designs and product architectures that meet program
- requirements - Present in Concept Design Reviews Design and Analysis - Design parts and assemblies utilizing SolidWorks - Perform and document mechanical analyses, including hand calculations, FEA, CFD, etc.
- for structural, modal, thermal, and/or fluid aspects of products - Present in Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews - Generate engineering drawings per ASME and GD&T standards, perform tolerance stack-ups Prototype and Manufacturing - Compile complete Bills of Materials - Provide technical supply chain support for sourcing hardware - Work with technicians and manufacturing engineers to build initial prototypes Testing and Validation - Create a Design Validation Plan and Report (DVP&R) for new products
- - Excellent written and verbal communicator to effectively share knowledge and build the collective mindshare of the company.