Location: San Francisco (in office) with domestic and international travel as required.

Salary range: $140,000 – $180,000

About us

Ulysses is building the autonomy platform for the ocean with mass-deployable, fully autonomous surface and subsea robots with dual-domain, read-and-write capabilities. Our oceans are in trouble; we’ve neglected them, and we allow bad actors to misuse them. Ulysses will manage our oceans effectively, persistently, and cheaply. We're developing autonomous surface and subsea drones, robotics, and AI systems to tackle critical challenges across nature, infrastructure, and maritime security. Our first product line is a suite of autonomous drones and attachments that makes restoring seagrass ecosystems cheaper and easier. We are currently working with governments in the US and Australia and leading environmental groups like The Nature Conservancy. We are a Series A company backed by top VCs.

About the Role

We’re searching for a Manufacturing Lead – Machine Shop to join our world-class team. This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious, driven individual to mold the future of Ulysses’ products from single digit scale to tens of thousands. You’ll be working across disciplines - running and owning the CNC shop, optimizing production processes and exploring out-of-state manufacturing opportunities; and with engineering to improve designs for manufacturing, influencing the product philosophy. You’ll be working closely with our founder Colm to scale production of our core products.

What You’ll Do

• Machinist: Own, run and optimize the day to day operation of the production machine shop onsite in San Francisco

• Engineer: Work with engineering to optimize design for manufacturing and assembly

• Management: Work with our co-founder Colm to:

  • Design the roadmap of and execute on scaling production capacity

  • Vertically integrate key processes

  • Explore out-of-state expansion opportunities

  • Influence design decisions on fully integrated stock-to-product autonomous manufacturing and assembly

About you:

Requirements

• Ability to self sufficiently program, setup, and run 3-axis, 5-axis, and Turning Jobs

• Knowledge of simultaneous 5 axis toolpath programming

• Be able to design and execute on fixturing solutions, be it for single parts or producing production ready fixtures for large quantity runs

• Proficient in metrology and inspecting parts for quality assurance

• Comfortable with Haas control

• Know how to maintain and obtain relationships with vendors for material, tooling, service, etc.

• You know how to give DFM feedback and work with engineers to make sure parts are production ready

• Have an interest in leadership and expansion planning

• You're an ambitious self-starter with an insatiable drive to win.

• You have an entrepreneurial mindset and can think like a founder.

• You embrace a gotta go fast mindset and refuse to settle for "good enough"

• You’re capable of working autonomously in dynamic environments

• You’re an exceptional machinist, having run medium to large scale CNC production and have a wealth of experience with both milling and turning

• You’re comfortable running a manufacturing facility, from coolant refills to production planning with our COO & CTO

• You can point to machining work you’ve done in the past that you’re proud of

• You can easily work with Fusion 360 CAM, and CAD programs such as SolidWorks or OnShape

• You have direct experience with MES programs such as First Resonance

• You’re obsessed with quality

Nice-to-haves

• You’re familiar with running an ISO-9001 certification process, and implementing the corresponding quality control measures

• You have hands on experience with line balancing, running production to takt

• You’ve set up a machine shop from scratch before - from machine procurement to running the compressor lines

• Licensed forklift operator

• Obsession with creating good workflows, processes and organization to keep the shop streamlined as we grow bigger.

Think you're our next teammate? Apply and let us know what sets you apart and why you should work on the Ulysses team!