The Company

Sofar is on a mission to connect the world’s oceans. We design, build, and deploy the largest privately owned network of marine weather sensors to power the world’s best marine weather forecasts. Our data helps our customers to increase efficiency and reduce emissions, delivering tools to governments and other stakeholders to understand impacts of climate change on extreme weather and ocean health. We live on Planet Ocean, and our goal is to create the ocean intelligence needed to ensure a sustainable future.

The Position

You will be a key contributor to the mechanical design and manufacturing of all our hardware products – working from high level system architecture through transition to manufacturing. You will weigh risks, options and outcomes with your teammates, exercising sound design judgement. You thrive in small and collaborative multidisciplinary teams, and are eager to pitch in to debug and solve gnarly issues (even when it's obviously a software bug). You have practical experience to guide material selection when designing components that must survive in harsh environments, and you have a strong foundation in stress analysis and design for fatigue life. You strive for the shared success of improving the health of our oceans and planet by shipping a cohesive, solid and impactful product.

Some projects you’ll be a part of:

• Building new Bristlemouth (www.bristlemouth.org) integrations for Spotter and Smart Mooring.
• Developing next generation platforms.
• Advanced research and experiments with new and emerging technologies and materials.
• Integrated system testing, open ocean deployments, and the occasional throwing of things out of airplanes to see what breaks.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize and model solutions to mechanical and manufacturing problems in CAD.
• Build and test prototypes.
• Own the design of multiple subassemblies and lead mechanical design discussions among internal and external teams.
• Work closely with electrical, firmware and manufacturing engineers.
• Collaborate with product, sales, support and directly with customers to find ways of enabling new marine sensing applications.
• Work directly with external vendors and contract manufacturers.

Minimum Job Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional ME experience in a relevant field (eg: marine, harsh environments, robotics, aerospace etc.).
• Competent in 3D CAD systems (Solidworks required).
• You have participated in the mechanical design of products that have shipped to customers at a variety of scales.
• You have transitioned designs to contract manufacturers.
• You have experience creating 2D drawings and tracking revision changes in a BOM.
• You have expertise in material and process selection for use in marine and/or other harsh environment applications.

Bonus Points

• A multidisciplinary skillset with some experience in electronics or software engineering.
• Expertise in FEA and/or CFD modeling and analysis for static, cyclic, and thermal load cases.
• Experience designing o-ring seals for water proofing in harsh environments.
• Experience with potting and encapsulation.
• Operating manual lathe and milling machines.
• A passion for or connection to the ocean.

Employee Conduct

It is the responsibility of every employee to contribute to a positive work environment through cooperative and professional interactions with co-workers, customers, and vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.