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Senior FEA Engineer
Design and optimize hardware components for humanoid robot durability and safety
San Francisco Bay Area
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Senior Fea Engineer
Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our Humanoid is designed for corporate tasks targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are based in Sunnyvale, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration.
We are looking for a Senior FEA Engineer to design, analyze, and test key hardware components for our humanoid.
Responsibilities:
- Define and analyze load cases for our humanoid robot
- Analyze full robot stiffness
- Create finite element models to analyze falling, overload, durability and day to day operations
- Optimize design of parts and structures for minimizing weight and maximizing stiffness
- Work with mechanical team to develop FEA workflow and tutorials
- Collaborate with mechanical, industrial design and electrical teams to architect the system
- Test systems in the real world and compare against finite element models. Pay close attention to modeling of bearing and other OTS components.
- Collaborate with controls engineers to determine load profiles
- Help define materials (metals, polymers and textiles) for critical robot components
Requirements:
- Expert knowledge of solid mechanics
- Expert in setting up and running implicit and explicit finite element analysis models
- Experience modeling metals and polymers
- Experience with durability analysis methods
- Experience working with suppliers to characterize new polymers
Bonus Qualifications:
- CATIA V6 Experience
- Expert in ABAQUS
- Experience with soft goods materials including textiles
- Experience working with system level modeling and physics engines such as MuJoCo
- Modeling of structural resonance frequency
About Figure
Figure is a financial technology company leveraging blockchain, AI, and analytics to provide home equity release, mortgage, and personal loan services.