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🐺 Cars should run on sunshine in SoCal
Plus an Inc 5000 Amazon accelerator hiring 10 in San Diego.
Sorry for the late send yotes, I was knocked out with the flu. Stay healthy out there.
Aptera Motors is designing and building a solar electric vehicle in Carlsbad that aims to require no charging for most daily use. All six open engineering roles are on-site. The company is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker SEV.
That's one of two SD companies worth knowing about this week. Plus, an Inc 5000 Amazon accelerator is hiring 10 in San Diego.
Howl yeah, let's dive in.
Aptera Motors — 6 Open SD Roles
Solar electric vehicle designed and built in Carlsbad. Publicly traded on Nasdaq under ticker SEV.
Why they matter:
Aptera is building a solar electric vehicle that aims to require no charging for most daily use. The vehicle is designed with ~700 watts of integrated solar cells, targeting up to 40 miles of free solar-powered driving per day and 400 miles of range per full charge. And no more searching for shaded parking.
The company describes it as "designed in California." The vehicle is currently in testing and validation.
All six open engineering roles are Carlsbad, on-site: aerodynamics, chassis, high and low voltage systems, vehicle-integrated solar panel design, embedded battery management software, and software testing.
Momentum signals:
Publicly traded on Nasdaq
Vehicle designed with ~700 watts of integrated solar cells
Targeting up to 40 miles/day of solar-powered driving and 400 miles per full charge
Vehicle currently in testing and validation
Open roles:
Aerodynamicist
Principal Engineer, Electrical Low & High Voltage Systems
Sr Engineer, Chassis
Sr Mechanical Design Engineer, Vehicle-Integrated Solar Panels
Staff Engineer, BMS Embedded Software
Staff Engineer, Testing
Luminize — 10 Open SD Roles
Amazon accelerator agency headquartered in San Diego. Inc 5000 listed. Represents some of the largest brands on Amazon.
Why they matter:
Luminize is a full-service Amazon accelerator agency. They started when the founders were on the other side of the table, running brick-and-mortar natural food stores and moving them onto Amazon. That direct-seller background became the operating model for the agency.
Today they represent some of the largest brands on Amazon, they’re Amazon Ads certified, and have been named to the Inc 5000.
Momentum signals:
Inc 5000 listed
Amazon Ads certified agency
Hiring across brand, advertising, product, finance, engineering, and operations simultaneously
Open roles across:
Brand and marketplace (Sr Brand Manager, Principal Brand Manager, Marketplace Manager)
Advertising and content (Sr Advertising Strategist, Senior Content Manager)
Operations and product (Business Process Automation Specialist, Inventory Control Analyst, Principal Financial Systems & Data Analyst)
Engineering (Software Engineer II — Node.js / TypeScript)
People (Senior Recruiter)
Still on the Radar
Three companies from last week still hiring and worth your time:
comma.ai - 9 open SD roles. The Android of self-driving cars. In March they released openpilot 0.11, the first release trained fully in a learned simulation.
Cadre AI - 7 open SD roles. A cadre of four SD founders scaled Cadre from 4 to 40+ team members in one year.
ExploreTech - 4 open SD roles. Software-driven critical mineral exploration. Their software's copper prediction at Giant Mining's Majuba Hill was field-validated by a drill result.
Let's help good people find great San Diego teams.
Jonah 🐺
