Mechanical Engineering (full-time)

Job Description

Role:

• Goal: Improve robot’s durability, safety, efficiency, and usability with a variety of projects
• Identify problems, solve them, design solutions, build them, test them, repeat.
• Work independently but tackle big challenges with collaboration
• Convert projects into weekly goals and produce progress every week
• Mix of office research & design with hands-on build and testing.

Examples of Potential Projects:

• Lighter, more durable soil extraction arm
• Soil conveyance - comparing pneumatic vs mechanical & optimizing
• Lighter, faster packager gripper system
• Robot enclosure & weatherproofing
• Design for operator ergonomics
• New and custom soil sampling robot vehicle

Desired Profile

Minimum:

• Great communicator, problem definer and solver, core values fit
• Breakdown problems with physics, trig, calculus & algebra
• Test design & execution, sometimes in the outdoor elements
• Data analysis & presentation in a modern tool (excel, matlab, sheets etc)

Core Skills:

• Modeling: 3D CAD, 2D Fabrication drawings (with tolerancing)
• Layout/Machine Design: assemblies, interferences, configurations
• Wiring Design: routing, harness, termination, mounting
• Simulation: static and dynamic FEA analysis
• Design for Mfg. & Maintenance: easy to build & maintain
• Design for Ruggedization: vibration- & water/weather-proofing
• Fabrication: Willing (if not able) to build things in the shop - welding, cutting, wrenching

Core Experience:

• Projects: Robotics/machine design, rugged design, vehicular design, packaging
• Systems: pneumatic, electrical/control, hydraulic systems, linear motion systems
• Materials: steel, aluminum, weldments, 3d-printed plastics

Bonus:

• Electrical Schematic Design, Low level programming (Ladder Logic, PID)

Start Date & Location

• Start in May 2020
• Willing to work in Wolcott, IN / Lafayette, Indiana area

Compensation / Benefits

• Full-Time Salary (based on market, experience, & skill)
• PTO - Flexible Vacation Plan (Self-managed as long as you get your work done)

Why apply?

• Work with exciting Ag-technology for a purpose.
• Work with an amazing, quickly growing team.
• Challenge yourself to grow in many different areas.

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