Senior Mechanical Engineer

Gatik · Santa Clara, California · Posted 2024-10-16

Who we are

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics, delivers goods safely and efficiently using its fleet of light & medium-duty trucks. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 customers including Kroger, Walmart, Tyson Foods, Loblaw, Pitney Bowes, Georgia-Pacific, and KBX; enabling them to optimize their hub-and-spoke supply chain operations, enhance service levels and product flow across multiple locations while reducing labor costs and meeting an unprecedented expectation for faster deliveries. Gatik’s Class 3-7 autonomous box trucks are commercially deployed in multiple markets including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada.

About the Role

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.

What You Will Do

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.

What We’re Looking For

5+ years of experience designing & analyzing complex mechanical structures and integration of hardware.
An engineering degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics or an equivalent field.
Delivered multiple parts, subsystem(s) or system(s) to production successfully
Experience in automotive or transportation sector, dealing with larger assemblies and parts
Excellent skills for 3D CAD design & 2D drafting per ASME Y14.5 (SolidWorks preferred)
Experience in FE analysis (vibration experience bonus)
Experience working in an engineering process environment eg. using PDM & PLM, creating ECOs, generating BOMs, CM etc.
Expertise in creating Aluminum & steel designs, with a focus on sheet metal fabrication, welded design, extrusions & machined design.
Expertise in tolerance stacking, especially linear & simple 2D stacks.
Working knowledge of ISO 26262 & its relevance to integration of E&E components.
Expertise in component selection and specification (seals, fasteners, materials, coatings etc.)
Hands-on Engineer that is able and willing to use hand tools including drills, brake presses, oscillating saws, grinders, rotary tools etc. if required

Bonus

Experience in design of heat sinks, heat exchangers, thermal design & CFD
Experience working with sensors like Lidars, Radars, Camera, GNSS etc
Experience working with sensor cleaning & sensor protection solutions
Working knowledge of a scripting language like python, go, perl, etc.
Working knowledge of optics, have worked with cameras & lidars in the past
Working knowledge of harness routing, have experience working with harness engineers
Understanding of E&E basics like power draw, high data rate cables, connectors, etc.

More about Gatik --------------------

With headquarters in Mountain View, CA and offices in Canada, Texas and Arkansas. Gatik is establishing new standards of success for the autonomous trucking industry every day. Visit us at Gatik for more company information and Jobs @ Gatik for more open roles.

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About Gatik

Gatik is developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics.