Founding Research Engineer
Aerospace & Autonomy

Mission

Humanity needs more metal extracted in the next 25 years than the past 70,000 combined for electrification. CH4 emissions continue to rise as we struggle to find regenerating geological H2. Phosphorous is depeleting from top soil with a majority of global reserves coming from a single mine in the Sahara Desert. The climate change fight faces multiple subsurface engineering challenges.

Mithras is developing an experimental Earth-scale system to supply resource targets to mining, geothermal, and other subsurface industries to start developing ahead of resource supply shocks. Along the way, we'll measure glacial systems, monitor aquifers, protect agricultural systems from run-off oil & gas production waste products, and more.

This role is multi-scale and multi-disciplinary. We're reinventing a field that's been dormant for 40 years, miniaturizing and ruggedizing it, and taking it multi-scale to build a new Earth-scale subsurface map. You should expect this role to evolve, as it straddles the line between fundamental research and applied engineering.

Responsibilities

• Building a novel flying scientific instrument
• Evolutionary workflows spanning aerospace design and simulation
• Building sensing arrays to be placed around Earth (Arctic to desert)
• Design test stands and instrument calibration workflows
• Reverse engineering military experiments
• Power train explorations, across combustion and fuel cells.
• Systems engineering

Qualifications

• Mechanical or aerospace engineering degree or equivalent self-learning.
• 2+ years experience engineering.
• Having seen engineering choices through development, testing, and field deployment.
• Comfortable with hand tools, drill press, bandsaw, and 3D printers.
• Demonstrated balance of rigor and urgency.
• Willing to travel for field campaigns in remote areas and work outdoors.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Fabrication, manufacturing, and assembly.
• Composite layup
• Aircraft design, build, fly end-to-end
• Autonomy experience
• Powertrain development
• Strong mechanical and structural intuition.
• Aeromechanical testing.

Logistics & Applying

Mithras is located on the border of San Francisco and Brisbane, California. Work is 100% on site.

Pay range: $140,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year, to be determined on a case-by-case basis based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. Equity can start at 0.5-2.5%.

Mithras is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Mithras is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Apply

Email founders@mithrasindustrial.com with a one pager describing execution ability, curiosity, and any other qualities you think are important for this role. We are fans of your work, so include YouTube links, photos of hardware, etc. In addition to your one pager, include a short resume.