Staff Mechanical Design Engineer, Archer
$185.4-203.9k
More information about location
Office located in San Jose, CA
Urban air mobility developer
Open for applications
Urban air mobility developer
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$185.4-203.9k
More information about location
Office located in San Jose, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the benefits of sustainable air mobility.
Role
Who you are
- MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT: Mechanical Engineering Designer or related job title in which 5 years of experience with NX or CAD packages, mechanical tolerance stackup analysis, GD&T, and MATLAB was gained
- ALTERNATE EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- ALTERNATE EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT: Mechanical Engineering Designer or related job title in which 1 year of experience with NX or CAD packages, mechanical tolerance stackup analysis, GD&T, and MATLAB was gained
What the job involves
- Design, develop and test high voltage, high power density motors for eVTOL applications
- Responsible for all aspects of the mechanical design of the electric engine, including rotor, stator, and gearbox components
- Analyze and optimize the engine design using FEA for mechanical modeling, thermal modeling, acoustics and vibration
- Support validating results through dynamometer testing
- Design test equipment, such as dynamometers, testing fixtures, etc
- Responsible for all stages of development from concept, design, testing, validation, and production release and support
- Evaluate new technologies and design improvements to develop the most power dense, efficient and reliable electric engine
- Rapid prototyping of conceptual designs
- Generate design packages – detailed drawings, analysis reports, BOMs, assembly instructions
- Assist with generating vital technical documents for the mechanical team (including technical component specifications, prototype test plan, statement of work for sourcing components, and assembly instruction manuals)
Application process
- Must put job code SJ2025SD on resume/CV and cover letter
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Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2020
$55.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $55.7m
Our take
Electric air taxis may sound like a pipedream, but companies like Archer are in the process of testing models that they hope to begin producing at scale in 2025. Designed to be quiet and efficient, its current model can fly at speeds of 150 miles per hour and cover 60 miles per flight. With urban transport in mind, these air taxis are both greener and vastly more efficient than traditional vehicles.
Given the congestion and pollution issues that many cities are facing, it's easy to imagine such transport taking over. It’s also worth noting that although Archer plans to run them with human pilots initially, the company has automation as part of its long-term goals.
Other players exist in this space: EHang, a Chinese firm, flew its first aerial taxi in America in 2020. However, Archer has big backers and customers such as United Airlines (acting both as an investor and launch customer) and manufacturing partner Stellantis with whom it is mass-producing its flagship Midnight eVTOL aircraft.
There's certainly a growing demand for clean transport without sacrificing speed, but many barriers still remain in Archer's way as it must help to initiate a seismic shift in transportation infrastructure and behaviors to reach mass adoption. That being said, it has the funding behind it, raising close to $2 billion in post-IPO funding since 2021.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle