Mechanical Engineer

San Francisco · On-site

About this role

The role

We're looking for a strong, hands-on mechanical engineer to join our hardware team. You don't need to be an expert in grinding or robotics yet, but you need to be a genuinely good builder who's hungry to learn a hard, physical problem and get their hands dirty doing it. You'll work alongside our existing mechanical engineers designing, building, and deploying the robotic cells that finish metal parts in real factories. The impact is tremendous. All of these parts go on to exist inside buildings, planes, cars, streets, robots, data centers, other factories, and even things that go into space.

What you'll do

  • Design and build parts of our grinding and finishing cells (fixturing, end effectors, mounts, guarding, the mechanical guts of a working machine).

  • Turn designs into real hardware: CAD, fab, assembly, and the iteration in between.

  • Get on the floor. You'll help deploy and debug cells in customer facilities and learn the process from the parts up.

  • Grow into ownership of harder mechanical problems as you go.

What we're looking for

  • 2+ years of experience

  • Solid mechanical engineering fundamentals and strong CAD skills.

  • Someone who actually builds things and proof you've made real hardware.

  • Hunger to learn robotic grinding and surface finishing from the ground up.

  • Comfort being on a factory floor, and being wrong on the way to being right.

  • Low ego, high output, and deep care in transforming the way America builds things.

Nice to have

  • Worked at a startup and/or been on deployments

  • Experience with robot integration, fixturing, or automation.

  • Hands-on fabrication skills (machining, welding, etc.).

  • Exposure to manufacturing or foundry environments.

None of it happens if you can't build it. If this resonates, we'd love to talk.

Company at a glance

The company automates visual quality assurance and surface finishing for manufacturers, leveraging a team of software and mechanical engineers founded by roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University. By combining expertise in robotics with a collaborative engineering approach, the company has built a solution that directly addresses manufacturing quality challenges. What sets the company apart is its ability to ship code directly to robots operating in production at customer sites, enabling rapid iteration and continuous improvement of its systems in real-world conditions. This approach allows the company to refine its technology quickly based on actual manufacturing environments rather than relying solely on controlled testing.

Founded2023
Team Size1-10
WorkspaceOn-site
IndustryRobotics
Location
San Francisco, California, United States

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