Are you a mechanical engineer who prides yourself on seeing the results of your efforts come to life on the factory floor? We are seeking a mechanical engineer to join us in continuing to build the next generation of rack-scale, fully-integrated Oxide Cloud Computers. We are looking for engineers who are comfortable working on designs for their entire lifecycle from concept all the way through sustaining engineering, and are excited by finding simple, elegant solutions to complex problems.
As a mechanical engineer working at Oxide, you will:
Join our small mechanical engineering team and shape the direction of our designs and processes.
Work with our team to streamline our existing mechanical products and processes as we scale our manufacturing efforts.
Design and maintain CAD models and drawings for all products and test/support equipment, including revision control through our product data management system (Solidworks and Solidworks PDM).
Work closely with the electrical, operations, and industrial design teams to harmonize competing product and test system considerations such as quality, manufacturability, cost, durability, and appearance — among others!
Have ownership over products from the very beginning to the very end of the product’s lifecycle.
Perform DFM analyses at a product level, all the way down to a part level for both existing and future systems.
Evaluate designs using finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and tolerance stackup analysis.
Assist our supply chain team in supporting existing suppliers and vetting potential suppliers across many broad categories: hardware, software, logistics, test houses, and so on!
Work closely with our quality team and suppliers to address any manufacturability or quality issues and issue engineering change orders when needed.
Work with our compliance team to support management of test plans and vendors for shock and vibration analysis, seismic analysis, and safety certifications.
These responsibilities are just a starting place! We have a lot to do – we can help you grow wherever your interests take you.
You will thrive in this role if you:
Have experience with all stages of a product’s life cycle, and enjoy developing systems that can be built and work reliably at scale!
Take ownership of products and processes that may not originally be your own, and work to support and improve them as manufacturing scales.
Embrace the gritty details of part and system design, material selection, and different manufacturing processes such as sheet metal bending and forming, welding, and injection molding. Excitement to explore new and different methods of fabrication is also a plus!
Yearn to question assumptions and care deeply about not just making sure products are safe and performant mechanically, but also that the end-user experience is awesome.
Love diving into hard problems.
Have a strong drive to achieve the impossible when someone says it can’t be done.
Believe in fully documenting your ideas
Enjoy reading the documentation produced by others
Don’t mind coworkers getting really excited about decades-old computers.
Before applying for the role, you should:
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the the Oxide hiring process.
Check out our blog post on how we do remote hardware development
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends to get a sense for how we work. A few recommendations:
Raiding the Minibar about a test rig we’ve developed for our manufacturing line
Cabling the Backplane on the mechanical engineering in the rack
Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1 to hear about how everything came together for our first customer shipment.
The Oxide Supply Chain on the challenges of the supply chain
Oxide’s $200M Series C on the truckload of dough we recently raised