Mechanical Design Engineer (Robotics)

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Design, prototype, and iterate on end-effectors, grippers, and full robot assemblies for a bi-manual industrial robotics startup. Build custom hardware rapidly, including teleoperation arms and data collection rigs, while owning actuator design and FEA. Requires 0-4 years of hands-on mechanical engineering experience in robotics or hardware, strong CAD skills, and a maker mindset.

Key Highlights

Early hardware team member at a well-funded robotics startup building bi-manual industrial robots.

Own the physical layer including end-effectors, grippers, and custom actuator design.

High ownership role with direct collaboration with ML and electrical engineers.

Key Responsibilities

Design, prototype and iterate on end-effectors, grippers, fixtures and full robot assemblies

Build custom hardware fast, including teleoperation leader arms, data collection rigs, and custom assemblies

Own actuator design, integration and FEA for arms and end-effectors handling industrial loads

Move between quick builds that unblock the ML team and longer projects like custom arms and actuators

Work directly with ML, electrical and deployment engineers to turn manipulation problems into working hardware

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Technical Skills Required

CAD Mechanical Design FEA

Benefits & Perks

Meaningful equity

OPT and H1B transfers supported

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Nice to Have

Internships or experience at robotics, autonomy, aerospace or hardware startups

DFM across machining, sheet metal, injection moulding and additive

Job Description

Title: Mechanical Design Engineer (Robotics), Early Hardware Team

Location: San Francisco, CA (on site, 6 days a week)

Salary: $150K–$250K+ base plus meaningful equity

Want to be one of the first mechanical engineers at a well-funded robotics startup building robots for industrial work?

This company builds bi-manual robots that do real industrial labour, and owns the full stack: hardware, ML and deployment. The team is small, about 20 people, with engineers from top AI and tech companies. They’re hiring an early member of the hardware team to own the physical layer everything else runs on.

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