Are you a mechanical engineer who prides yourself on building from first principles? We are seeking a mechanical engineer to join us in building the next generation of rack-scale, fully-integrated Oxide Cloud Computers. We are looking for engineers who are comfortable working on complicated designs for their entire lifecycle, from concept all the way through sustaining engineering.
As a mechanical engineer working at Oxide, you will:
Join our small mechanical engineering team and have the opportunity to help shape the direction of our designs and processes.
Work closely with the electrical, operations, and industrial design teams to harmonize competing product considerations such as quality, manufacturability, cost, durability, and appearance — among others!
Have ownership over the product from the very beginning to the very end of the product’s lifecycle.
Design and maintain CAD models and drawings for all products and test/support equipment, including revision control through our product data management system (we currently use Solidworks and Solidworks PDM).
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.
Vet existing and potential suppliers across many broad categories: hardware, software, logistics, test houses, and so on!
Work closely with suppliers to address any manufacturability or quality issues and issue engineering change orders when needed.
Manage test plans and vendors for shock and vibration analysis, seismic analysis, and safety certifications.
These responsibilities are just a starting place! We’re a small company, we don’t have rigid roles, and we have a lot to do – we can help you grow wherever your interests take you.
You will thrive in this role if you:
Love 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!
Get energized from designing something new, and enjoy driving a design from inception through production.
Love 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.
Have experience with all stages of a product’s life cycle, and enjoy developing systems that can be built and work reliably at scale!
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:
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
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
