What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. to Staff Mechanical Engineer - Delivery Drone Wire Harness & Interconnects position at Skyrocket Ventures?
Sr. to Staff Mechanical Engineer - Delivery Drone Wire Harness & Interconnects
San Francisco, CA (you can work from home up to 2x/week)
The team builds small, lightweight autonomous delivery drones with safety-first hardware designed to operate around people and everyday urban infrastructure. The work has a positive impact on the sustainability, access, and cost of everyday necessities.
You would be joining an elite group of about 60 people and 20 engineers inside a much larger public company. This org operates as a small, fast-moving hardware innovation lab: minimal bureaucracy, real build/test cycles, and ownership of systems that ship and operate at a very large scale.
The company is targeting a salary range of $200-250k (more is possible for principal level candidates), plus RSUs translating into total first year compensation of roughly $300-500k.
Job Responsibilities:
- Designing and developing wire harness architectures and connector integration for next-generation UAV platforms.
- Optimizing routing, strain relief, packaging, and mass within tightly constrained vehicle assemblies.
- Performing thermal simulations and physical testing to validating thermal performance, sizing, and durability.
- Building, routing, and testing wire harness prototypes and associated integration hardware.
- Identifying interconnect failure modes and driving corrective design improvements to improve reliability.
- Owning electrical interconnect subsystems from concept through validation, including CAD modeling, prototyping, testing, and refinement.
- Collaborating with structures, systems, and test engineering teams to refine requirements, interfaces, and integration strategies.
- Ensuring interconnect designs are robust, manufacturable, and serviceable for operational environments.
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering.
- Strong 3D CAD skills for routing and packaged assemblies.
- Experience designing and building wire harnesses and connector systems.
- Experience running thermal simulations and validation testing.
- Understanding of common harness and connector failure modes.
- Hands-on experience with prototyping and electrical integration.
- Strong understanding of manufacturability and assembly methods.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, prototype-centric environment.
About Skyrocket Ventures
Skyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for hundreds of high growth technology companies that range from industry leaders to top-tier startups. This opportunity is with one of our client companies for a full-time permanent hire. Please only apply if you are authorized to work in the U.S.
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Salary : $200,000 - $250,000