Staff Design Engineer, Lightship
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$150-170k
+ Equity
Electric RV manufacturer
Job no longer available
Electric RV manufacturer
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$150-170k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Lightspeed's mission is to electrify the RV.
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Company mission
Lightspeed's mission is to electrify the RV.
Our take
Whilst mobile homes and camper vans have become a great way to travel and vacation at a lower cost and carbon footprint, there is still an efficiency problem with the vehicles involved. Due to the extra weight that a trailer creates, vehicles become less efficient in their mileage. Lightship RVs aim to solve that problem with their range of RVs, maximising mileage efficiency and creating comfortable trailer units in the process.
Founded by former Tesla engineers, the purpose-built travel trailers Lightship is building have their own self-propulsion system that enables near zero mile-per-gallon efficiency loss for the vehicle it’s attached to. With an 80 kWh battery within the trailer, it can make sure that a 300-mile range electric vehicle remains at a 300-mile range, thus reducing the anxiety associated with the possibility of a trailer affecting mileage per charge.
It is early days for Lightship, which was founded in 2020, with its hardware currently available to reserve. The company is planning a roadshow across the US to promote its release. The proof will be in the sales then, but with $57 million in funding to accelerate its development, Lightship’s road to success looks smooth.
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Benefits
- Healthcare, Dental, Vision (full time only)
- 401k
- Unlimited Paid Time Off that we actually want you to use! 3-4 weeks is common at Lightship
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- $2,000 per year towards an RV trip of your own, we call this a LightTrip (full time only)
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2024
$34m
SERIES B
Jul 2022
$23.1m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $57.1m
Leadership
Toby Kraus
(CEO)Previously Entrepreneur in Residence at Eclipse Ventures, Vice President at Proterra, Senior Manager at Tesla, and Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley.
Benjamin Parker
(CPO)Previously a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at Tesla and Team Leader at Dartmouth Formula Racing.