Full-Time
Mechanical Engineer 2
Range Energy
11-50 employees
Manufactures electric-powered trailers for decarbonizing trucking
Compensation Overview
$106k - $260k/yr
Mountain View, CA, USA
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Bachelor's, Master's
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- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related field is required.
- At least 2 years of experience in mechanical design and/or structural analysis is required; internship and project team experience may be considered for strong candidates.
- Hands-on proficiency with finite element analysis tools, preferably Ansys Mechanical and Workbench, is required.
- Experience with computer-aided design tools such as CATIA, NX, or SolidWorks is required.
- A solid understanding of structural mechanics, fatigue, and material behavior is required.
- The ability to work independently, manage multiple tasks in parallel, and communicate findings clearly is required.
- Develop and execute structural finite element analysis models using CATIA and Ansys to validate trailer subsystems, including chassis, suspension, enclosures, and structural interfaces.
- Build and maintain load cases, boundary conditions, and simulation workflows that support design decisions across the mechanical team.
- Perform durability, fatigue, and thermal analyses to ensure designs meet real-world operating requirements.
- Lead or contribute to mechanical design efforts, including component design, tolerance analysis, and drawing release, commensurate with experience level.
- Collaborate with hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams to integrate analysis into the design cycle and drive design for manufacturability.
- Correlate simulation results with physical test data and own root-cause analysis when designs do not perform as expected.
- Document analysis methods, assumptions, and results to support design reviews and build institutional knowledge.
- Own finite element analysis validation for major subsystems, from load case development through design sign-off.
- Build repeatable simulation workflows that improve speed and consistency across the mechanical team.
- Become a trusted resource for analysis-driven design feedback across hardware and systems teams.
- Ship a meaningful contribution to the organization's physical design efforts, not just analysis support.
- Experience in heavy vehicles, commercial trucks, trailers, or off-highway equipment.
- Exposure to durability and fatigue analysis methods, including stress-life, strain-life, and damage accumulation.
- Familiarity with thermal analysis or computational fluid dynamics.
- Experience correlating simulation results with physical test data.
- Knowledge of International Organization for Standardization, Society of Automotive Engineers, or Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards for commercial vehicles.
- A background in mentoring peers or leading technical efforts on a team.
Range Energy designs and builds powered and intelligent trailers that attach to standard tractors to cut fuel use and emissions in heavy-duty trucking. Its flagship RA-01 is a 53-foot electric trailer with an e-axle and a 200 or 300 kWh battery that measures hitch force and adds propulsion through its own axle, letting the tractor behave like it’s pulling an empty trailer. The system can power auxiliary loads (like refrigeration) and works with Thermo King, while a telematics platform provides fleet insights on emissions, routes, and maintenance. Unlike rivals, Range Energy offers a retrofit solution with direct sales (and potential leasing/service) to large fleets, focusing on immediate decarbonization without replacing tractors to speed up electrification.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$31.5M
Headquarters
Mountain View, California
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- MVTS reported 36.9% fuel efficiency gains from Range's trailer testing.
- Dot Transportation planned a 2025 pilot across its 2,600-trailer fleet.
- ZF partnership and South Coast AQMD collaboration validate market interest and regulatory relevance.
What critics are saying
- Commercialization depends on pilots turning into purchases before 2026 production starts.
- Range raised only $23.5 million in February 2024, limiting manufacturing runway.
- Trailer batteries, e-axles, and service networks create existential execution risk if reliability slips.
What makes Range Energy unique
- Range's powered trailers retrofit existing diesel fleets without tractor replacement.
- Thermo King and ESL Power Systems extend Range into refrigerated freight in 2025.
- Fei Liu joined in March 2026 to scale hardware manufacturing and operations.
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Recently, Range Energy and ZF formed a partnership to develop and promote the Range eTrailer System in North America.
In order to help fleets make significant strides toward reducing their Scope 3 carbon emissions and maintain compliance with federal regulations, Range Energy has introduced an ePTS (Electric Powered Trailer System), which offers a practical, scalable, and much less expensive alternative to full fleet electrification.
Range Energy, a company bringing powered trailers to the commercial trucking market, has formed a partnership with the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD), the California air pollution control agency.
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Range Energy (Range), the company bringing powered trailers to the commercial trucking market, today debuted its next generation electric-powered trailer system, the RB-01, at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo. The RB-01 is the next iteration in Range’s series of trailer systems with initial tests yielding 47-67 percent miles-per-gallon (mpg) improvements, equivalent to a 32-40 percent reduction in fuel costs. Notably, during its transit to ACT, the tractor towing the RB-01 achieved 18.1 mpg during the final 281.6 miles between Bakersfield, CA and Las Vegas, NV. The results from this trip included a 2,000-foot net elevation gain and 12,000 feet total of climbing with ambient temperatures as high as 105 degrees Fahrenheit. The electric-powered trailer system includes an e-axle, 200 or 300 kWh battery pack, and smart kingpin, and is built with hardware and software components that are sourced from Range’s supply chain partners. Improved results shown by the RB-01 highlight Range’s continued progression of its trailer system to ease the transition to electric for fleet owners and operators, and in doing so, significantly reduces emissions and improves the efficiency of fleets’ diesel-powered heavy-duty trucks in the near-term