Your Tasks
We at Sono Motors are a motivated small team dedicated to the successful market launch of solar products for commercial vehicles. As part of our project team you will be involved with project coordination and the test and development of solar components integrated into vehicles. You will also be responsible for our inhouse material testing as well as supporting our technical project leads. Your tasks in our team will include:
Conduct mechanical and thermomechanical tests such as peel tensile and shear adhesion strength tests on our inhouse pulltester machine
Complete physical testing interpret the results create relevant documentation and present it to the wider company
Support the project engineering team by conducting component research create design concept documentation and assisting in project planning such as taking meeting minutes
Create simple CAD Designs of mechanical parts using CATIA V5
Support the creation of system wiring diagrams
Support in performing reliability tests such as damp heat thermal cycling or humidity freeze tests in our inhouse climate chamber and sun simulator
Our Requirements
You are currently enrolled in a Bachelors or Masters program in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Material Science Renewable Energies or a related field
You are at least in the 4th semester
Engineering background and interest in mechanical engineering and material science ideally polymers
Analytical and problemsolving skills with a handson approach and an ability to work independently
Flexibility to take on a range of tasks that may be new or out of your direct responsibility
Basic CAD skills for CATIA V5 are of advantage
You are required to be predominantly onsite and ideally living in the Munich region
Fluent in English; German proficiency is advantageous
You have a proactive attitude and sustainability values are important to you
What to expect
- A visionary and highly dedicated team in a newborn company striving to fight CO2 emissions
- Additional benefits like allowances for public transport gym memberships or others your choice!
- Flexible working hours and option for home office according to tasks
- No entrenched processes and hierarchies but a lot of courage to shape the transportation industry in a sustainable way
- A culture of mutual support and appreciation in which we celebrate successes as well as mistakes together
- An office and workshop space in the north of Munich easily accessible with public transport and bike ;)
- Free Charging of your electric car at the office
Interested
Do you want to become a team member of Sono Motors joining asWorking Student Testing Lab (f/m/d) As you apply for this role we would like to give you some insights into our company culture and organization. At Sono Motors we replace the traditional employeremployee relationship with a partnership at eye level. When people transition from large organizations to Sono we sometimes hear that they miss certain services support and infrastructure. We invite you to address these gaps with us. We see you as a creator of our company not someone who only shows up to do their job. At Sono Motors you take matters into your own hands and you will achieve the desired impact. Our CEOs will work alongside you and together with the entire Sono team you will lead our organization. We expect you to take the initiative contribute to our organizational development accept imperfection and communicate transparently. We call this #staysono; this is our culture.
About us
Vision motivation and professionalism. Creativity and trust. Love for our planet. All of this unites our current team of around 50 colleagues. Together we are driving forward the realisation of our vision which we want to achieve with a new strategy and focus of our company: Offering Solar Integration for the transportation industry.
Our technology is already being used by more than 25 B2B customers who are testing our Solar Bus Kit and other solar integration solutions in a variety of vehicle architectures including buses refrigerated vehicles cars and eTrucks/eVans.