Senior Mechanical Engineer

Parallel Systems is looking for a talented Senior Mechanical Engineer to help architect our next-generation vehicle, perform trade studies, design hardware, and run development tests in Downtown Los Angeles. In this role, you'll work with fellow engineers and technicians to bring up new designs in our lab and run vehicles on our dedicated test track just outside the city. This is an opportunity to engage early with new designs and make a huge impact on the direction of the technology. Ideal candidates would be building on strong first principles and engineering skills and want to expand their responsibilities to owning large hardware systems.

Responsibilities 

• Work closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams to derive product architecture, present technical direction, and build consensus on path forward
• Execute on all phases of hardware development including requirements capture, prototyping, design validation, and manufacturing readiness
• Design block diagrams and select components for various systems
• Conduct failure mode analysis of safety critical hardware
• Create and execute design of experiments for decisions on architecture, component selection, and manufacturing processes as necessary
• Support manufacturing, vehicle integration, and validation

Basic Qualifications

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or similar Engineering discipline
• 5+ years of professional or project experience in hardware development, machine design, or validation
• Mechanical Engineering skills including mechanical drawing creation and GD&T, structural analysis, selection of materials and processes, understanding of failure mechanisms, and analytical/scientific programming (e.g. Python, Matlab, Simulink, etc.)
• Experience with at least one commercial CAD tool (e.g. SolidWorks, Fusion 360, etc.)
• Experience with at least one commercial FEA or multi-physics simulation package (e.g. Simulink, SolidWorks Simulation, NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications 

• 8+ years of experience in hardware development, machine design, or validation
• Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar engineering discipline
• Steel structures: Experience in design and qualification for various forms of steel structures including fabricated weldments, forgings, and castings. Experience with static and dynamic analysis, including fatigue life evaluation. Understanding of material selection and experience with process specification
• Traction systems: Experience with component design, component specification, mechanical integration, or modeling of electric traction systems. Components include high-voltage batteries, traction inverters, traction motors, gear assemblies, and axles
• Vehicle dynamics: Experience designing vehicle suspensions. Experience with vehicle performance modeling and dynamics analysis
• Multi-physics product development: Experience developing and integrating electromechanical assemblies such as cameras, batteries, traction motors, and force transducers
• Electronics: Experience with electronics and sensor packaging including requirements for high-voltage isolation, heat dissipation, vibration isolation, water sealing, and manufacturability. Experience in enclosure design in sheet metal, stamping, die casting, and/or injection molding
• Reliability: Experience with reliability testing and failure analysis in support of lifetime qualifications
• Fluid systems: Experience designing fluid systems including hydraulics and thermal control systems. Schematic design, component requirements derivation, component characterization, and system validation