Mechanical Engineer Internship, Parallel Systems
Fall 2023
$34 - $44 per hour
Autonomous Zero-emissions freight transportation
Job no longer available
Autonomous Zero-emissions freight transportation
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$34 - $44 per hour
21-100 employees
Company mission
To decarbonize freight while improving supply chain logistics and safety through its autonomous, zero-emission freight transportation system.
Role
Who you are
- Currently enrolled in a full-time program working towards a bachelors, masters or PhD in mechanical engineering or a related engineering field
- Mechanical Engineering skills including: drawing creation and GD&T, structural analysis, selection of materials and processes, understanding of failure mechanisms, and analytical/scientific programming (i.e. Python, Matlab, Simulink, Excel)
- Experience with at least one commercial CAD tool (Solidworks, Fusion 360°, etc)
- Experience with at least one commercial FEA or multi-physics simulation package (i.e. Simulink, Solidworks, NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS)
Desirable
- Steel Structures: Experience in with design and qualification for various forms of steel structures including fabricated weldments, forgings, and castings. Experience with static and dynamic analysis, including fatigue life. Understanding of material selection and experience with process specification
- Traction Systems: Experience with component design, component specification, mechanical integration, or modeling of electric traction systems. Components include HV batteries, traction inverters, traction motors, gear assemblies, and axles
- Vehicle Dynamics: Experience designing vehicle suspensions. Experience with vehicle modeling and dynamics analysis
- Multi-physics product development: Experience developing mechanical assemblies such as cameras, batteries, traction motors, and force transducers
- Electronics: Experience with electronics and sensor packaging including requirements for high voltage isolation, heat dissipation, vibration isolation, water sealing, and manufacturability. Experience enclosure designs in sheet metal, stamping, die casting, and/or injection molding
- Durability: Experience with durability testing and failure analysis in support of lifetime qualifications
- Experience designing fluid systems including hydraulics and thermal control systems. Schematic design, component requirements derivation, component characterization, and system validation
What the job involves
- As an intern, you'll be on a focused project that will include analysis, design, and verification in order bring ideas to reality. This could fall within several disciplines
- We're currently developing the vehicle chassis design, perception system, platooning bumper assembly, and electric traction system including high voltage batteries, inverters, motors, and axles
- Each of these products have opportunity to contribute directly to the design, manufacturing, validation, or integration. Additionally, we'll be executing vehicle pilot programs, in which we will be working directly with the integrated vehicles
- Work closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- Execute on all phases of hardware development including requirements capture, prototyping, and design validation
- Design, build and analyze vehicle components, including structure and mechanisms
- Support vehicle integration and validation
Our take
The huge freight networks of the U.S. currently face the significant challenge of optimizing their supply chain logistics whilst meeting regulations for the mitigation of global warming. Whilst electric trucking startups provide a small-scale solution, the $700B industry is enormous, and replacing trucks would be unaffordable to most companies.
Parallel Systems designs autonomous, zero-emissions freight transportation systems for railways, providing a sustainable alternative to freight trucking. The automated rail vehicles use existing railway networks to increase infrastructure utilization and open railroads to new markets, whilst providing an alternative to logistics companies that is safer, faster, zero-emission, and lower cost.
While the company faces competition in fellow autonomous railcar company Intramotev, Parallel shows promise to disrupt the market by being based on pre-existing infrastructure that is faster, safer, and cheaper than road-based logistics. Through this approach, the company can help logistics companies become carbon-neutral whilst increasing their access to railway freight, thus saving them money and boosting opportunities for revenue growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
66% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2025
$38m
SERIES B
Jan 2022
$49.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $91.2m
Company HQ
Arts District, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Matt Soule
(Founder & CEO)Avionics Engineer for SpaceX from 2006 to 2019.
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