Mechanical Engineer (Maritime Structures & Mechanisms)

Infrastructure for the Autonomous Era · First in. First up.

On-site · Austin, TX

--------------------------------------------------- Our deployable dock folds into a shipping container and stands up in hours, in salt water, under load. You own the structure and the mechanisms that make that possible. This is a founding mechanical seat: architecture to deployed hardware, with your hands on it the day it goes in the water.

First Order Effects (FOE) is building America's Infrastructure Prime for the robotic era. Autonomous ships, drones, and robots are rewriting how the world moves, fights, and builds - but none of them work without infrastructure to power them, connect them, and launch and recover them. That's what we build.

Our team comes from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, Lockheed Skunk Works, Forterra, and Fuse Energy. Before founding FOE, we built satellite ground stations that closed a national comms gap in days, deployed multi-megawatt power systems at commercial speed, and shipped autonomous surface vessels into Navy fleet production. We've built infrastructure at lightspeed before - now we're applying that playbook to an entire company.

Own the deployable dock from architecture to deployed hardware: container-packaged structure, load paths, and rapid-deploy mechanisms.

Size and analyze structures for maritime loads, sea states, and handling, and design against corrosion and fatigue.