Mechanical Engineer, Reliable Robotics Corporation

$86.5-149k

+ Equity

Junior and Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Reliable Robotics Corporation

Automation systems for aircraft

Job no longer available

Reliable Robotics Corporation

Automation systems for aircraft

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseNavigationFlightsAerospace

Job no longer available

$86.5-149k

+ Equity

Junior and Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Office located in Mountain View, CA

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseNavigationFlightsAerospace

Company mission

Reliable Robotics' mission is to help create a world in which aircrafts fly themselves, using artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, and automation.

Role

Who you are

  • BS in mechanical or aerospace engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 2+ years professional experience developing mechanical systems
  • Experience with current CAD and FEM packages
  • Experience in innovative system designs

Desirable

  • Expertise in electromechanical or mechanical engineering
  • Demonstrated ability to drive designs to closure
  • Experience taking designs through FAA certification
  • Design for manufacturability and volume production
  • Previous experience with aircraft or other safety-critical mechanical systems
  • Flight and/or ground test familiarity or experience
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Attention to detail

What the job involves

  • As a Mechanical Engineer at Reliable Robotics, you will be part of the Mechanical Engineering team
  • This is a small team of highly motivated people designing, testing, and flying advanced mechanical systems
  • The hardware focus is on high reliability safety critical mechanisms and structures, with significant cross-functional development with the Systems, Avionics, GNC, Software, Manufacturing, and Flight Test teams
  • The position will be located at our facility in Mountain View, California, reporting to the Mechanical Engineering Manager
  • Design, analyze, build, test, and fly a system of actuators, mechanisms, and structural modifications to enable remote piloted aircraft
  • Work with a team of top performing mechanical engineers alongside the greater Reliable team of outstanding Electrical, Systems, Software, GNC, Manufacturing, and Flight Test engineers
  • Own your hardware from concept through flight test and certification . . . this is cradle-to-grave engineering with hands-on build, test, and integration
  • Bring a sense of humility, and be ready to both learn and teach

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

The landscape of vehicles is rapidly changing with automation and robotics seeing application in cars, trucks, and even spacecraft. Whilst airplanes have seen semi-automatic pilot modes for decades, a human pilot is still required to finetune automated processes and to conduct routine tasks such as taxiing and landings.

Reliable Robotics provides self-driving technology to allow small cargo planes to make routine cargo deliveries without a pilot. Founded by former SpaceX and Tesla engineers, the company claims that all cognitive abilities required to fly a plane can be automated through machine learning and remote pilot assistance. This will allow cargo planes to utilize the thousands of smaller airports and rural landing strips that are currently underused due to the difficulty of manual landing in areas with poor infrastructure.

The company has attracted significant funding over the years, which is being used in research and development and improving the capabilities of its autonomous aircraft systems. Going forward the company plans to outfit larger cargo planes with its technology, and eventually trial autonomous passenger flights.

Insights

Top investors

-5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Oct 2021

$100m

SERIES C

Aug 2020

$25m

SERIES B

Total funding: $167m

Company benefits

  • Stock options
  • 401k plan
  • Vision and dental insurance
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Founders

Robert studied at Oregon State University before working as a HP Software Engineer for 7 years, spending 3 at PlayStation, and founding Genielab and Bork 3D. After roles at SpaceX, Vicarious AI, Tesla, and Google, they co-founded Reliable Robotics in July 2017.

Juerg started their career as an Electronics Engineer at Aveox, spending 6 years there before moving to Transonic Combustion. They spent almost a decade at SpaceX before leaving to co-found Reliable Robotics in 2017.

Salary benchmarks

We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.

Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.

Share this job

View 6 more jobs at Reliable Robotics Corporation