The Mission GRAM is a self replication company creating populations of insectoids for the physical economy. Our first research frontier is self-preservation: the base case of physical self-replication. Our machines will …
The Mission GRAM is a self replication company creating populations of insectoids for the physical economy. Our first research frontier is self-preservation: the base case of physical self-replication. Our machines will …
The Mission GRAM is a self replication company creating populations of insectoids for the physical economy. Our first research frontier is self-preservation: the base case of physical self-replication. Our machines will …
Skills: Robotics, C++, Python, Linux, Embedded Systems
The Mission GRAM is a self replication company creating populations of insectoids for the physical economy. Our first research frontier is self-preservation: the base case of physical self-replication. Our machines will …
The Mission GRAM is a self replication company creating populations of insectoids for the physical economy. Our first research frontier is self-preservation: the base case of physical self-replication. Our machines will …
Senior Software Engineer, Robot Data Infrastructure
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$190k–$240k/yr
Senior
The Mission GRAM is a self replication company creating populations of insectoids for the physical economy. Our first research frontier is self-preservation: the base case of physical self-replication. Our machines will …
The Mission GRAM is a self replication company creating populations of insectoids for the physical economy. Our first research frontier is self-preservation: the base case of physical self-replication. Our machines will …
Skills: Robotics, C++, Python, Manipulation, Task and motion planning
Applied Scientist II, Search Ranking, Search Ranking
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
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Palo Alto, California, United States · Remote Solely
Entry level
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Software Development Engineer , Adaptive Search Relevance
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$144k–$224k/yr
Mid level$67M raised
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$150k–$185k/yr
Full-time
bachelor degree
Posted 5d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
You will design and integrate structural components and mechanisms for insectoid robots, moving from first-principles sizing to detailed CAD and prototype testing. The role involves owning the structural, thermal, and environmental integrity of machine subsystems while resolving failures through verified redesigns.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering and possess experience releasing complex mechanical assemblies using major CAD software. You are expected to demonstrate proficiency in structural calculations, GD&T, and hands-on hardware testing to resolve mechanical failures.
Full job description
The Mission
GRAM is a self replication company creating populations of insectoids for the physical economy.
Our first research frontier is self-preservation: the base case of physical self-replication. Our machines will survive, coordinate, and recover without humans. We believe scalable machine labor requires more than single-agent task generality or machines shaped in our image.
About the role
You will design the structures and mechanisms that carry insectoid loads and protect critical systems. You will move from first-principles sizing through detailed CAD, drawings, prototype hardware, instrumented test, and released revisions across lightweight structures, joints, housings, covers, routing, interfaces, and mechanisms.
You will own the structural, alignment, environmental, thermal-packaging, routing, and service integration of machine subsystems, including the physical interfaces for actuator modules. The work demands explicit load cases and margins proved on physical hardware.
What you will do
Turn robot motion, contact, transport, service, and fault cases into free-body diagrams, load cases, structural requirements, margins, and verification plans.
Select and mechanically integrate actuators; design load-bearing body structures, joints and mechanisms, sensor and compute mounts, environmental enclosures, protective elements, and cable or hose routing.
Produce release-quality 3D CAD, assemblies, drawings, GD&T, tolerance stacks, material and process specifications, and bills of materials.
Use hand calculations and FEA to evaluate stress, stiffness, buckling, fatigue, vibration, impact, fastener behavior, and thermal distortion.
Build and instrument prototypes; correlate strain, displacement, load, modal, impact, and cycle-life measurements with predictions.
Investigate cracks, yielding, loosening, wear, fretting, misalignment, ingress, and assembly discrepancies, then carry corrections through verified retest.
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
Released complex mechanical parts and assemblies in a major CAD system such as NX, CATIA, Creo, or SolidWorks, including drawings and ASME Y14.5 GD&T.
Generated and released calculations for the governing structural failure modes and tolerance stack of hardware subsequently fabricated and tested.
Took a complex mechanical assembly from CAD and drawings through fabrication, inspection, assembly, and instrumented test, resolving an as-built tolerance or process failure.
Produced measured structural or mechanism test data and used it to resolve a fracture, deformation, fatigue, vibration, wear, or tolerance-driven failure through verified redesign.
Preferred experience
Lightweight robotic, aerospace, automotive, or industrial mechanisms operating under dynamic and repeated loads.
Nonlinear or dynamic FEA, modal testing, fracture mechanics, tribology, sealing, or environmental protection.
Design for assembly, supplier technical review, inspection planning, or prototype-to-production transfer.
The annual base salary range for this San Francisco Bay Area position is $150,000–$185,000. Health coverage, benefits, and generous equity come with the role. This role is on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area. A relocation bonus is available. We hire to start as soon as possible. We review what you’ve shipped; if it’s the caliber we seek, interviews take about a week, start to finish. We treat your work and conversations with discretion.
GRAM scales labor-hours safely for the benefit of humanity
Industry
Manufacturing
Company size
11-50 employees
Founded
2025
GRAM is an SR or self-replication company. Our mission is to scale labor-hours safely for the benefit of humanity. A labor-hour is an hour of useful work the economy pays for. Humans perform 7,700,000,000,000 of them each year.
We build insectoids, meter-scale and general-purpose machines built to coordinate in large populations. We are engineers, scientists, and operators in El Segundo and San Francisco.
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