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Chariot Defense

Mechanical Engineer

San Bruno, CA · On-site

SAE, FSAE, BAJA, others), other extracurricular participation, or professional settings. * A minimum of 2+ years of experience in a technical engineering, design, or product role in a professional ...

Hermeus

Manufacturing Engineer, New Grad

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$91K - $112K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Experience on hands-on engineering teams such as FSAE, rocketry, robotics, aerospace clubs, or similar build-focused organizations. * Interest in automation, robotic welding, tooling, and ...

Rivian

Sr. Fluid Dynamics, Attributes Engineer

Irvine, CA · On-site

$121K - $151K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Experience: 5+ years of experience (including internships or Formula Student/FSAE experience) in automotive or aerospace industries in product development and design. * Technical Skills: Foundational ...

SpaceX

Government Project Engineer

Hawthorne, CA · On-site

$115K - $140K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Hardware or project leadership on an award-winning engineering project or competition team (FSAE, Design-Build-Fly, NASA Student Launch, etc.) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: * Must be available to work ...

Freeform

Software Engineer (New Grad December 2026)

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$125K - $150K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Internship or engineering club experience such as FSAE, Baja SAE, solar car, rocket club, robotics club, hackathons, or similar programming with C/C++ Nice to Have: * Advanced degree (Master's, PhD ...

Hermeus

Thermal Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$91K - $140K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Experience participating in a collegiate engineering competition team such as Formula SAE (FSAE), Design/Build/Fly (DBF), Baja SAE, Rocketry, or a comparable hands-on engineering organization is ...

Hermeus

Thermal Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$91K - $140K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Experience participating in a collegiate engineering competition team such as Formula SAE (FSAE), Design/Build/Fly (DBF), Baja SAE, Rocketry, or a comparable hands-on engineering organization is ...

SpaceX

Harness Design Engineer (Starshield)

Hawthorne, CA · On-site

$115K - $140K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Demonstrated ability to own hardware or systems within an integrated engineering team outside a classroom setting (FSAE, Engineers without Borders, Student Directed Research, Design-Build-Fly, NASA ...

SpaceX

Government Project Engineer

Hawthorne, CA · On-site

$115K - $140K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Hardware or project leadership on an award-winning engineering project or competition team (FSAE, Design-Build-Fly, NASA Student Launch, etc.) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: * Must be available to work ...

Mach Industries

Electrical Engineer

Huntington Beach, CA · On-site

$120K - $155K/yr

  • Medical

  • Life

  • Retirement

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field. * 1 year of full-time work experience or involvement in student competition or design teams (FSAE, drone club, rocket club ...

Hermeus

Thermal Engineer

Los Angeles, CA

$91K - $140K/yr

Experience participating in a collegiate engineering competition team such as Formula SAE (FSAE), Design/Build/Fly (DBF), Baja SAE, Rocketry, or a comparable hands-on engineering organization is ...

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As an FSAE (Formula SAE) team member, your responsibilities often shift between design, manufacturing, testing, and project management throughout the competition season. You'll collaborate closely with fellow students from various disciplines to design and build a formula-style race car, participate in regular team meetings, and contribute to documentation and presentations required for the competition. Balancing technical tasks with time management and communication is essential, as you'll often work under tight deadlines to ensure the car is ready for dynamic and static events. This role offers hands-on experience and exposure to real-world engineering challenges, making it a valuable step for those pursuing a career in automotive or motorsports engineering.

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FSAE engineers are students who participate in the Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) competition, where they design, build, and race small formula-style vehicles. The competition is intended to give engineering students real-world experience in automotive engineering, teamwork, and project management. FSAE engineers typically work in multidisciplinary teams, handling everything from design and manufacturing to testing and finance. This hands-on experience helps prepare them for careers in the automotive and motorsports industries.

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Mechanical Engineer

Chariot Defense

San Bruno, CA • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 10 days ago

Job description

About Us
Chariot Defense is a defense technology company that designs and manufactures a family of power products for the U.S. military and its allies. We believe that credible deterrence of armed conflict and winning if deterrence fails, requires more than just the best drones, sensors, weapons, electronic warfare systems, and command & control capabilities. Those critical components will require sustained electric power in austere and resource-constrained environments. Moreover, military units must be able to turn off the trucks and generators that generate this power to hide and survive. In other words, power generation must be decoupled from power consumption. Chariot Defense's products enable exactly this capability, allowing U.S. and allied militaries to be more lethal and survivable. We hope you will join us on this mission.
About the Role
Chariot Defense is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Mechanical Engineer to join our engineering team, reporting to the Powertrain Lead Engineer. In this role, you will conceptualize, design, develop, and test advanced mechanical and power electronic systems, including fully integrated vehicle platforms. You will work across multidisciplinary engineering and design teams to ensure our systems meet stringent MIL-STD performance, endurance and reliability, and security requirements for deployment in demanding environments, performing critical missions.
Key Responsibilities
  • Design Ownership: Own hardware design from initial requirements to concept and prototyping to series production, and beyond, in service and field deployment, as an end-to-end owner of subsystems.
  • Integrated Systems: Develop mechanical designs that involve the complex and multivariable mechanical integration of next-gen energy storage, advanced material types, complex thermal solutions, power electronic hardware, dense PCBAs, and efficient harnessing for the tightest packaged, most efficient, and highest performing end-product.
  • Rapid Iteration: Prototype rapidly to find issues fast, debug, iterate, and develop a final, field-deployable product on compressed timelines, closely managing risk vs. reward, effort vs. return, and balancing schedules and budget with capability and performance.
  • Design for Mass Manufacturing: Design mechanical, thermal, electro-mechanical components and assemblies, and integrated power systems, for volume manufacturing from the get-go.
  • Direct Customer Engagement: Support critical customer-facing hardware demonstrations, from time to time, and use these interactions to better understand the customers' requirements and application needs.
What We're Looking For
  • Top-notch engineering intuition and first principles thinking toward designing complex products that function seamlessly for your customer, taking both an engineering/ technical, and product/ customer approach, to strike the optimal balance.
  • Able to independently identify critical information or priority gaps and apply effort toward closing those gaps.
  • Undaunted by imperfect, incomplete or absent datasets or information, and capable of making sound, comprehensive, and swift first-principled decisions to achieve a product end-state that meets and/or exceeds the need of the hour.
  • Not satisfied by superficial explanations of a problem or "band-aid engineering"; seeks persistently to find the specific root cause through data-driven methods, and resolve failures or recurring issues, so they can be mitigated to prevent future such instances.
  • Gratified by helping your peers succeed, building a robust team culture, and propagation deep camaraderie amongst your peers; seeks to break down information silos by collaborating rigorously with others to solve problems, share knowledge, and provide input.
Qualifications
Required:
  • BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience in an immersive system design project or research study/ thesis, in collegiate project teams (e.g.: SAE, FSAE, BAJA, others), other extracurricular participation, or professional settings.
  • A minimum of 2+ years of experience in a technical engineering, design, or product role in a professional setting.
  • Proven 3D CAD skills (any platform, but SOLIDWORKS preferred), as well as CAE/ FEA experience, and the ability to produce high-quality engineering 2D drawings that comply with common industry standards (e.g.: GD&T, ASME standards etc.)
  • Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals in structures, materials, fluids and aero, thermal, controls, mechanics/ dynamics, system modeling, and fundamentals of physics.
  • Manufacturing knowledge & experience with machine shops (sheet metal, CNC, lathe, sand casting, forging, die-casting etc.).
  • Rapid prototyping background (structures/electronics/software) & 3D printing knowledge.
  • Proficient in hands-on prototyping (machining, shop tools, welding, soldering), and demonstrated hands-on fabrication skills.
  • Familiarity with MIL-STD, DO-160, or other automotive, defense, and aerospace standards.
Preferred:
  • Experience designing and working directly with low and high voltage systems, high current/ high voltage power distribution, high voltage safety, and thermal management of lithium-ion batteries (or other energy storage) and voltage regulating power electronics.
  • Experience in industries/ applications requiring high-reliability embedded power electronics operated in austere environments, and testing exposure for lifecycle, abuse, and endurance tests.
  • MATLAB/ SIMULINK/ SIMSCAPE experience, as well as experience with any or several CAE/ FEA tools such as ANSYS, Fluent, Star CCM+, Abaqus, Comsol Multiphysics, Hyperworks etc.
  • Experience with any or several instrumentation, scripting, communication and measurement tools such as LabVIEW, DIAdem, DAQs, PEAK (PCAN), Vector (CANape, CANoe etc.), Python.
  • Experience with any or several data, content, and product lifecycle management systems like Confluence, JIRA, Polarion, Tableau, Teamcenter etc.
  • Experience with any or several common sensors and sensing methods (such as thermocouples, force/ load sensors, flow sensors, voltage probes, current clamps etc.), sensor integration, and sensor data post processing/ filtering.
  • Advanced designing skills for CNC machining, composites/ CFRPs, sheet metal, injection molding, PCBA integration.
Role Requirements
  • This position is an onsite role based in Chariot Defense's San Bruno, CA, office.
  • Willingness to support 10% travel, domestically and internationally, as well as work extended and weekend hours, when necessary
  • Able to work on your feet for extended periods in a shop setting.
  • Able to lift and carry 50lbs.

A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is $130,000-$180,000 annually. Compensation packages also include early-stage equity and access to company-sponsored benefit plans.
Individual compensation packages are based on geographic location, scope of the role, relevant experience, and the ability to deal with complexity and problem solve within our organization, among other factors.
All employees are required to provide proof of authorization to work in the U.S. within their first 3 days of work. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our website or to personal email accounts of employees of Chariot Defense are considered property of Chariot Defense and are not subject to payment of agency fees.

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