Senior Staff Mechanical Engineer, Flock Safety
Thermal Science
$168-231k
+ Equity
Public safety operating system
Be an early applicant
Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$168-231k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
- 10+ years of experience in consumer electronics, Industrial IoT, or related industries, specializing in Mechanical/ID and thermal design optimization
- 5+ years designing advanced thermal systems for integrated hardware products
- Deep expertise in thermal management design elements including TIM, spreaders, heat sinks, vapor chambers, heat pipes, and fans
- Proven experience designing both passive and active thermal management systems
- Skilled in thermal testing, including sensor selection, data acquisition, and post-processing
- Expert in creating FEA-CFD models and conducting full thermal system simulations and analyses
- Proficient with thermal simulation tools such as ANSYS-Icepak, Flotherm, and similar
- Familiar with designing for industry-leading, ARM-based processor systems (e.g., Qualcomm, Ambarella, Nvidia)
- Adept at designing and executing thermal tests in a lab environment, with hands-on experience in airflow and temperature measurement
- Proficiency in 3D CAD tools (SolidWorks, Creo)
- Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical content effectively, both written and verbally
What the job involves
- This position presents an opportunity for a Thermal Subject Matter Expert to assume a role with significant impact
- We are developing advanced drone technology and are seeking a Senior Staff Thermal Engineer to play a key role in defining our product architecture
- The incumbent will have a key role in influencing decisions across Mechanical, Electrical, and Performance domains
- Their expertise will be vital to our initiatives aimed at advancing the drone market and providing tangible benefits to communities
- The First 30 Days:
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and external partners to establish and meet design requirements and decisions, particularly those related to the thermal performance of product designs
- Develop a deep understanding of product architectures, vendor capabilities, operational contexts, and performance objectives
- Evaluate and optimize designs for thermal performance throughout the product lifecycle
- Establish and maintain the necessary tools and software for comprehensive thermal analysis and simulations
- Execute thermal validation and characterization tests, presenting findings to stakeholders and proposing hardware/software mitigation strategies for existing designs as needed
- The First 60 Days:
- Provide guidance and direction to design teams to ensure optimized thermal design envelopes to meet all required operational specs
- Conduct thorough analysis and testing to validate design choices and make necessary improvements
- Propose innovative optimizations across products, thermally modeling small form factor computing devices with a wide variety of heat sources: chipsets, memory/storage devices, batteries/chargers, RF transceivers, LEDs, and sensors
- 90 Days & Beyond:
- Conduct thermal design reviews, and perform thermal simulations utilizing CFD tools, from prototype to release to Mass Production
- Create FEA-CFD models for mechanical systems, perform static, dynamic, and thermal-mechanical analyses in multi-physics environments
- Guide the development of custom SW solutions, as required, for thermal management and mitigation
- Develop, standardize, and document a test plan for design efforts in order to validate and characterize physical designs
Our take
Public vehicle surveillance provides valuable insights to emergency services for the prevention of crime, but bringing information together to create leads is difficult. There's no standardised system for inter-city vehicle surveillance, and this makes it difficult for communities and law enforcement services to work together.
Flock Safety provides surveillance equipment that aims to improve the abilities of law enforcement and homeowner associations to communicate data with each other. The company focuses on vehicle surveillance, innovating on existing technology by using machine learning to categorise vehicles by color, license plate, state, and other data points.
Whilst automated surveillance equipment is used daily within federal police forces, Flock Safety builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. This data can then be automatically processed to help develop leads, a time-consuming process that would usually have to be completed manually.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2025
$275m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Total funding: $857.7m
Company benefits
- 🌴Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
- ⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match
- 👪Family Leave: We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers
- 🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility
- 🧠Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace
- 💖Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
- 💸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions
- 💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home
- 📚L&D Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more
- 🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office
- 🏢Coworking Space: If you’re not local to our ATL HQ, we’ll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area)
- 🐾Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
Leadership
Garrett Langley
(CEO)They worked in Computer Services freelance for over 6 years before joining Firethorn in 2015, and Clutch Technologies in 2014. They left their position as President of Moment LLC to found Flock Safety in April 2017.
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