Mechanical Engineering - Product Design & Production

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Mechanical Engineering Manager leads Fleetzero’s product design, testing, and production efforts. You will lead your team through a highly iterative hardware development process that emphasizes quickly building physical prototypes, testing them in real-world conditions, improving the design, and testing again until product design criteria are exceeded. Successful candidates will intuitively understand that an interactive design process is faster and results in safer and higher-quality products than traditional linear or waterfall design processes.

• Be a highly effective contributor to the mechanical engineering, shop, and production teams.
• Contribute to the design, testing, and production of marine mechanical systems, from concept and CAD modeling to prototype construction, testing, and iterative improvements.
• Design and work on core ship systems, including propulsion battery modules, enclosures, thermal management, and structural vessel integration, cargo securing, lifting and hoisting, and other key marine equipment.
• Support the development of production systems, using tools like robotic arms, laser welders, and assembly processes.
• Collaborate across electrical, marine, and software teams.
• Participate in setting up and operating new production facilities, bringing designs to life.
• Engage in hands‑on testing and prototyping in dynamic, sometimes hazardous environments, ensuring safety and precision.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 2–5+ years of mechanical engineering experience.
• Experience in marine engineering, energy storage systems, or automotive preferred.
• Proficiency with design tools such as Solid Works.
• Shop floor fluency (welding, cutting, turning, milling, additive manufacturing, etc.).
• Strong first‑principles engineering knowledge, including a basic understanding of material properties, an understanding of practical physics, heat flow, and statics and mechanics.
• Enthusiasm for iterative design, problem‑solving, and hands‑on testing.
• Ability to work safely in fast‑paced, sometimes hazardous environments.

• Any proficiency with robotics, programming, or electrical engineering.

$80,000 - $145,000 a year

All roles are expected to include intermittent or occasional travel as the business needs.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in most full time offers and are considered part of Fleetzero’s total compensation package.

Fleetzero does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.