Lead Mechanical Engineer, Structures

Extensive experience designing components, structures, and assemblies from a variety of materials.

10+ years of 3D CAD modeling experience.

5+ years experience with large scale, safety critical welded steel structures.

Strong fundamental skills with hand calculations and experience with structural FEA.

Ability to provide guidance to and receive it from engineers, designers, technicians, and suppliers.

A work history that includes at least five design, build, test, deploy/release/produce cycles for complex systems/vehicles.

If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:

Cash compensation of $235,000 - $285,000

Equity in the company. We’re all owners and if we’re successful, this equity should be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.

A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:

Flexible paid time off

Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)

Lead Structures Engineer

to join our team and provide technical leadership for the mechanical design and development of our core technology, the "Node." The Node is a device designed to produce energy in the harshest ocean conditions for extended periods without maintenance.

This role is crucial to the success of our mission.

This is a role that requires deep structural design experience, ability to make outstanding technical contributions, and leadership abilities that are effective in a humble and high performance culture.

While defining the design for our Nodes, you will build and manage a team to support the future iterations of our Nodes.

Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke, Boeing, Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, Bridgewater Associates, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries.

We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.

The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.