Career Readiness : New STEM Opportunities in Alameda
Alameda’s New Billion Dollar Company - Wrightspeed
Wrightspeed is a powertrain company built on a tradition of quality systems engineering. Its powertrains are the next step in the evolution of vehicle propulsion. Wrightspeed’s engineering team has particular strengths in control systems, high-reliability software, and high-power analog electronics. Wrightspeed holds most of the IP for its powertrains, including patented-pending controls, 200 kW inverter, 41 kg 250 hp electric motor, two speed gear box with clutch-less shifting, battery pack, battery management system, and LCD user interface.
Q8: When it comes to recruiting what kind of standards or requirements are you looking for? Are you looking for welders? Are you looking for all engineers? What’s going to be the spin out for your employee recruitment?
Ian Wright: “Oh, it’s going to be everything you can imagine. Right now, we’re looking for people with manufacturing experience. Supply chain people. Manufacturing engineers. Then there’s technicians for assembly and test. We do have one fabricator that does welding for prototype development work. And we probably need another tech right now with more techs later. But we’ll need a lot more engineers as well. Test engineers. Mechanical engineers.”
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Wrightspeed is a powertrain company built on a tradition of quality systems engineering. Its powertrains are the next step in the evolution of vehicle propulsion. Wrightspeed’s engineering team has particular strengths in control systems, high-reliability software, and high-power analog electronics. Wrightspeed holds most of the IP for its powertrains, including patented-pending controls, 200 kW inverter, 41 kg 250 hp electric motor, two speed gear box with clutch-less shifting, battery pack, battery management system, and LCD user interface. 