Mechanical Engineer

Glacier Technologies Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco Office

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Own Structural Design from Concept to Production
• Own the long-term structural design for our projects: frames, mounts, and supporting structures for robotic and vision systems, balancing stiffness, strength, weight, cost, and manufacturability.
• Perform calculations, simulations, and lab validations for structural components, using engineering analysis to confirm integrity and reliability.
• Develop mechanical architectures that survive demanding industrial environments while staying easy to manufacture, install, and service.
• Drive End-to-End Mechanical Engineering
• Take new and vague problems and turn them into engineering requirements alongside the product team.
• Own the design lifecycle from initial sketch through prototyping, NPI, and production release, including detailed CAD (Onshape preferred), drawings, tolerances, and BOMs.
• Perform tolerance analysis and create drawings that optimize DFM against assemblability.
• Work alongside peers on the electronics, dynamics, and pneumatics sides of the robot to deliver integrated systems.
• Build Hands-On and Support the Startup
• Build prototypes yourself: talk to the machine shop, buy inventory, stock tools, and spin up custom designs quickly.
• Take ambiguous problems and drive them independently from concept through deployment.
• Write SOPs and provide communication and teaching support for the build team.
• Step up off-hours and at remote installation sites as needed on occasion.
• What you bring:
• B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering or a similar field
• 3+ years in a technical engineering environment
• Strong background in structural design (sheet metal, machined components, bolted joints, welded assemblies), with FEA and engineering analysis to validate designs
• Solid understanding of materials and failure modes, with the judgment to balance performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost
• Experience designing for manufacturing using CAD (Onshape, SolidWorks, or similar), GD&T, tolerance analysis, DFM/DFA, and production documentation
• Hands-on prototyping skills and comfort in the lab with machining, fabrication, assembly, and mechanical testing
• Experience working cross-functionally with electrical, software, manufacturing, and field teams
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup where priorities evolve and engineers own projects from concept through deployment
• Excellent communication skills and a strong sense of ownership, with the ability to independently drive technical decisions

🎯 Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering or a similar field
• 3+ years in a technical engineering environment
• Strong background in structural design (sheet metal, machined components, bolted joints, welded assemblies), with FEA and engineering analysis to validate designs
• Solid understanding of materials and failure modes, with the judgment to balance performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost
• Experience designing for manufacturing using CAD (Onshape, SolidWorks, or similar), GD&T, tolerance analysis, DFM/DFA, and production documentation
• Hands-on prototyping skills and comfort in the lab with machining, fabrication, assembly, and mechanical testing

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive equity compensation
• Benefits
• Base compensation range: $110,000-140,000

Skills & Technologies

Remote

$110k-140k

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About Glacier Technologies Inc.

Glacier Technologies Inc. provides AI-driven robotic sorting systems that recover recyclable materials from waste streams. The company’s compact, vision-guided robots identify and separate plastics, metals, and paper with high accuracy, enabling material recovery facilities and businesses to increase recycling rates, reduce landfill volumes, and meet sustainability targets. Its cloud-based analytics platform tracks recovered volumes and purity, giving operators data to optimize operations and verify environmental impact for ESG reporting.

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