Mechatronics Engineer, Robotics Hardware

Platform Integration: Integrate mechanical and electrical hardware onto a variety of large wheeled platforms, from CAD through installed, running hardware.

Field Deployment & Support: Support deployed hardware in the field, diagnosing real-world failures and feeding fixes back into the next design iteration.

Full-Stack Hardware: Contribute across full-stack robotics hardware, working closely alongside senior engineers from each discipline (mechanical, electrical, and embedded).

Autonomy Systems & Collaboration: Work closely with the autonomy team on hardware decisions (sensor placement, platform constraints) and on safety-critical systems.

Special Projects: Potentially make key contributions to special projects integrating multiple modalities, such as robotic arms with wheeled vehicles or multi-robot quadruped-wheeled collaborative efforts.

Education: B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.

Experience Level: We are recruiting across a wide range of experience levels from entry level engineers to senior and staff engineers.

Mechanical CAD: Proficient with SolidWorks or equivalent mechanical CAD platforms, with experience designing enclosures, mounts, and structural packaging.

PCB Design: Experience with PCB schematic and layout tools (KiCAD, Altium, or equivalent), particularly for power regulation and communication systems.

Electromechanical Systems: Hands-on experience with motors, actuators, drives, and feedback control systems.

Thermal & Structural Analysis: Familiarity with thermal mitigation strategies and structural design for rugged, outdoor-operating hardware.

Electromechanical Integration: Comfort working across the mechanical-electrical boundary — wire routing, PCB placement, thermal paths, ingress protection.

Fabrication: Experience working with external fab shops and hands-on assembly, bring-up, and integration of hardware.

Debugging: Comfort with hardware debugging tools (oscilloscopes, power monitors, logs, analyzers) to diagnose failures to root cause across mechanical, electrical, and firmware boundaries.

Systems Thinking: Ability to work across mechanical, electrical, and autonomy domains to deliver robust, integrated hardware.

Field Mindset: Willingness to support hardware in the field and iterate designs based on real-world failures.

Scaling: Experience taking systems from prototype to large scale production.

Field Environments: Experience developing systems for harsh field environments.

Deployed Robotics: Experience working on robotics deployed in real world settings such as autonomous vehicles, drones, or ruggedized robots.

Actuation Expertise: Background in motor control, servo systems, or robotic manipulation/locomotion hardware.

Multi-Modal Systems: Experience with robotic arms, manipulators, or multi-robot collaborative systems.

Systems Level Robotics: Fluency across mechanical, electrical, and software systems.