Mechanical Engineer

Founding Mechanical Engineer

About Silicon Dreams

Silicon Dreams is ushering in a future of true abundance for humanity with matter compilers. Matter compilers are machines that can make anything. Instead of starting with nanotechnology, we are starting off with advanced robotics to automate manual labor tasks across critical industries to increase throughput of matter.

We believe that applying and blitzscaling the “Factory is The Product” mindset across all goods and services is how we create abundance and reach the ideal matter compiler, asymptotically.

Raw material in.

Electricity in.

Human desire in.

Matter out.

We do not care about building a superintelligent god that upends humanity.

We are not a research project.

We are focused on solving real problems for humans. We believe the most important problem to solve is accelerating a future of abundance across all goods that elevate human quality of life.

About the Role

We are looking for a Founding Mechanical Engineer to help own both design and manufacturing of new electromechanical mechanisms to be deployed in our autonomous systems. You will be the extreme owner of the system from conception to high-rate production. You will have creative freedom to explore engineering trades to solve problems from first-principles, but also be responsible for developing the assembly work instructions and process flow at the end of the product lifecycle. You will design mechanism kinematics and do fun hand calcs + structural analysis. You will also make your own drawings, tooling, do supplier visits, and more. You need to be a team player, owning all aspects of the end outcomes.

You will personally build your own designs until the design and assembly reaches a semi-stable state, before passing it off to technicians.

We believe in having small, talent-dense teams and removing friction across everything. We will always have more problems to solve than people to solve them, and we will keep it this way.

This is how Silicon Dreams builds the best future for humanity in the most efficient manner with a high bar for quality – and this starts with having high quality people who can execute and have a deep desire to be the best in their field.

If you were the one doing all the work in your class projects or college engineering team, you will enjoy working with us.

We index on high gradient and learning rates as opposed to extensive prior experience.

We also prioritize candidates with a demonstrated winning spirit whether it is in engineering competitions, physical athletics, or e-sports.

What You'll Do

• Design and analyze lightweight yet capable mechanisms deployed in many unique structural and thermal environments, load cases
• This means first principles sizing and hand calcs, structural analysis, thermal analysis
• Work with a team to rigorously design and test actuation methodologies (motor + transmission)
• Own DFM for your mechanisms
• Work with suppliers to increase mechanism rate of production
• Work with a team to develop qual test procedures and setups for progressive de-risking
• Integrate mechanisms into larger systems
• Own drawings, line layout, tooling, work instructions, and manufacturing test procedures for your designs
• Use first principles and the basic middle school scientific method in an organized, rigorous manner to perform experiments on engineering trades and de-risk known unknowns, known knowns

What You'll Bring

• 2+ years of professional experience (engineering club, commercial and research internships included) with mechanical design including ranging from basic first principles sizing to running quick breakout FEMs of your designs
• Experience with seeing a product from concept to production
• Experience with assembly work instructions
• Advanced CAD Modeling skills (OnShape, Siemens NX, Fusion 360, Solidworks)
• Proficiency in structural analysis (static structural at the minimum; non-linear experience not necessarily required but definitely preferred)
• Basic thermal design and analysis (thermal network modeling at the minimum)
• Basic understanding of GD&T
• Basic understanding of dynamics and vibration analysis
• Excellence and mastery of fundamental classical mechanics and dynamics
• Deep desire to reduce part count

If you don’t meet every requirement listed above, but believe you are exceptional, like winning, believe in our mission, and are willing to work incredibly hard, please reach out to us regardless. We always want to work with the best.

Preferred Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechatronics, Physics, or related
• Nonlinear Structural Analysis
• Shock and Vibration Analysis
• CFD and thermal analysis
• Experience designing mechanisms, starting from pure kinematics
• Electric motor design experience
• Experience in high-volume manufacturing environments and DFM/DFT optimization.
• DFM for casting, injection molding
• Consumer Electronics Thermal design, analysis, manufacturing