Senior Mechanical Engineer

about 2 years ago
Full time role
United States... more
United States... more

Company

Dandelion is a home geothermal company offering affordable geothermal installations that provide heating, cooling and hot water to homes by ...

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Job Description

Dandelion’s mission is to revolutionize the way people heat and cool their homes using geothermal energy. The Mechanical Engineer will bring mechanical design knowledge and product development experience to help us advance  state of the art equipment in residential geothermal heat pumps. You will be responsible for developing, prototyping and productizing the mechanical design of new heat pump products to serve new customer segments, with a focus on mechanical designs that lead to high quality, low cost geothermal heat pumps that are simple to install in homes. The Senior Mechanical Engineer will work closely with our Senior Director of R&D, Electrical Engineer and Product team to bring the most promising heat pump concepts to market, furthering our mission to decarbonize homes.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design sheet metal enclosures to house electromechanical equipment
  • Model mechanical designs using MCAD Solid Modeling and Drawing - parts, assemblies, drawings (Solid Works experience is preferred)
  • Use Product Data Management Software (BOMs, product lifecycle, engineering change documentation). Support transition of designs to our external manufacturing partner
  • Work in a lab setting, building prototypes and test stands, validating and testing designs
  • Work effectively on a small, cross-functional team
    • Integrate easily with cross-functional disciplines (electrical, software, thermal)
    • Work flexibly in a small team environment
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About You:

  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering with 5-10 years of product development experience
  • Focus on product design and development
  • Experience/Interests in Thermal and Fluid science
  • PCB Mechanical Design experience
  • Refrigeration Design
  • Pumping/Fluid handling systems
  • Sensors, Control Systems and associated programming
  • Design for Manufacturing, Design for Service (DF*) skills
  • Geometric Design and Tolerancing
  • Tolerance analysis/Process Capability studies

Benefits/Perks:

  • Health/Dental/Vision insurance
  • 401k plan
  • Stock/Equity options
  • Paid Sick and Vacation time (PTO)
  • 40-hour workweek, overtime available
  • Training support including on-the-job and virtual/online-based courses

 

You’ll love working at Dandelion because:

We’re solving the world’s hardest problems. You’ll have the opportunity to pioneer renewable heating and cooling from the ground-up (literally). There’s no established playbook for fighting climate change, so your work will be messy, challenging, and build a better, cleaner world.

We’re good people. It sounds simple, and it is. We are passionate, vision-driven, low-ego, and treat one another with kindness and respect. We challenge ideas here, not people.

We hold each other accountable. We celebrate our wins and learn from our losses. We’re honest, realistic, and transparent across all areas of the business, every day -- not just at our monthly all-hands meeting.

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Since spinning out of Google X in 2017, Dandelion Energy has been an energy innovation company working to electrify home heating. We create and install geothermal heat pumps to replace fossil-fueled furnaces and boilers. We’ve grown into an organization of over 100 employees and have become the largest residential geothermal heat pump installation company in the United States. Our carbon impact to date is the equivalent to taking over 25,000 cars off the road... and that impact is accelerating with our growth!

Our cross-disciplinary team consists of experts in geothermal, drilling, heat pump software engineering, HVAC installation, solar and solar financing, behavioral economics, and high-growth operations amongst other backgrounds. With the potential to catalyze and scale a widespread transition to sustainable and affordable heating and cooling, our work is both complex yet rewarding. We are working to create a wholesale shift in how people heat and cool their homes — join us!

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