- Bike Engineer
Can you build a bicycle out of Q-tips and gum? Can you start a fire using only a glass of water? Then Fortified wants you! Here’s the scoop:
Fortified Bicycle launched our second successful Kickstarter this past fall, and we’re currently in the middle of production. Now we’re building more products for urban cyclists and looking for a talented MechE to join our team!
What you’ll bring:
- A love for biking
- Brilliance and creativity
- Experience with mechanical design of products in Solidworks
- Experience with rapid-prototyping
- Building prototypes with your own hands: (3D printing, wood working, machining, etc).
- Experience in designing for manufacturing
- Experience with managing overseas manufacturing is a plus (our factories are in China)
What Fortified brings:
- A love for biking
- Awesome bike product ideas
- A fun, entrepreneurial team that loves building and loves biking
- Experience in commercializing bike products
- Experience in making kick-ass Kickstarter products
- Experience in design for manufacturing and volume manufacturing
- Salary plus equity
If you want to join a fast-growing startup and bring brilliant bike products to life, let’s talk: please email bruno[-at-]fortifiedbike.com
November 20, 2014 at 4:22 pm
Hey dudes! I hope you’re still searching for someone to fill this position!
A little about me:
I’m a recent mechanical engineering graduate from UF, and I’m currently abroad in Germany doing an internship. I’ve been a cyclist throughout my college experience, and worked in 3 bike shops for the better part of 5 years to help pay the bills (yay Ramen!).
I have a lot of experience with rapid prototyping, particularly Stratasys Dimension machines/software, as well as with Dassault SolidWorks (I spent my senior year designing a mechanism for Harris Corporation, and we printed out all the structural components. You can check out my LinkedIn for details). I’m also lathe and vertical mill trained.
I also truly appreciate product design, especially with bikes. As a mechanic, I always was thanking the unknown person who decided that a bolt would be angled so I wouldn’t have to risk scratching a frame with a wrench. The end-user experience is key to design, and I implement that philosophy on all projects.
You guys seem to have a good team going, and if you’re looking for an enthusiastic mech-e to join up, I’m your guy!
If you want to contact me, email me at dharcha1@gmail.com! I’d be glad to hear from you!
November 21, 2014 at 10:37 pm
Hey Daniel,
Thanks for reaching out!
You’ve got quite the impressive resume and we’re thrilled you’re interested in joining our team. We’ll be touching base soon!