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Are you a mechanical engineer who prides yourself on seeing the results of your efforts come to life on the factory floor? We are seeking a mechanical engineer to join us in continuing to build the next generation of rack-scale, fully-integrated Oxide Cloud Computers. We are looking for engineers who are comfortable working on designs for their entire lifecycle from concept all the way through sustaining engineering, and are excited by finding simple, elegant solutions to complex problems.
As a Mechanical Engineer Working At Oxide, You Will
- Join our small mechanical engineering team and shape the direction of our designs and processes.
- Work with our team to streamline our existing mechanical products and processes as we scale our manufacturing efforts.
- Design and maintain CAD models and drawings for all products and test/support equipment, including revision control through our product data management system (Solidworks and Solidworks PDM).
- Work closely with the electrical, operations, and industrial design teams to harmonize competing product and test system considerations such as quality, manufacturability, cost, durability, and appearance — among others!
- Have ownership over products from the very beginning to the very end of the product’s lifecycle.
- Perform DFM analyses at a product level, all the way down to a part level for both existing and future systems.
- Evaluate designs using finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and tolerance stackup analysis.
- Assist our supply chain team in supporting existing suppliers and vetting potential suppliers across many broad categories: hardware, software, logistics, test houses, and so on!
- Work closely with our quality team and suppliers to address any manufacturability or quality issues and issue engineering change orders when needed.
- Work with our compliance team to support management of test plans and vendors for shock and vibration analysis, seismic analysis, and safety certifications.
You Will Thrive In This Role If You
- Have experience with all stages of a product’s life cycle, and enjoy developing systems that can be built and work reliably at scale!
- Take ownership of products and processes that may not originally be your own, and work to support and improve them as manufacturing scales.
- Embrace the gritty details of part and system design, material selection, and different manufacturing processes such as sheet metal bending and forming, welding, and injection molding. Excitement to explore new and different methods of fabrication is also a plus!
- Yearn to question assumptions and care deeply about not just making sure products are safe and performant mechanically, but also that the end-user experience is awesome.
- Love diving into hard problems.
- Have a strong drive to achieve the impossible when someone says it can’t be done.
- Believe in fully documenting your ideas
- Enjoy reading the documentation produced by others
- Don’t mind coworkers getting really excited about decades-old computers.
- Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.
- Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the the Oxide hiring process.
- Check out our blog post on how we do remote hardware development
- Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends to get a sense for how we work. A few recommendations:
- Raiding the Minibar about a test rig we’ve developed for our manufacturing line
- Cabling the Backplane on the mechanical engineering in the rack
- Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1 to hear about how everything came together for our first customer shipment.
- The Oxide Supply Chain on the challenges of the supply chain
- Oxide’s $200M Series C on the truckload of dough we recently raised
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
- Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
- Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
- Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
- Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
- Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
- Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
- Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Remote first
Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We do ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours.
Flexible working hours
Our families and lives outside of our jobs are very important to us; our schedules are flexible to reflect and support that.
Premium healthcare
We offer the best medical PPO, dental, and vision plans we can find and cover 100% of premiums for employees and dependents.
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Compensation
Everyone at Oxide makes $250,000 USD, regardless of location. (Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.)
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