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
• Expert in ABAQUS

Bonus Qualifications: 

• CATIA V6 Experience
• Experience with soft goods materials including textiles
• Experience working with system level modeling and physics engines such as MuJoCo
• Modeling of structural resonance frequency