Mechanical Design Engineer (Robotics)

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

Location: San Francisco, CA (on site, 6 days a week)Salary: $150K–$250K+ base plus meaningful equityWant 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.What you’ll doDesign, prototype and iterate on end-effectors, grippers, fixtures and full robot assembliesBuild custom hardware fast, often in days to weeks: teleoperation leader arms, data collection rigs, custom assembliesOwn actuator design, integration and FEA for arms and end-effectors handling industrial loadsMove between quick builds that unblock the ML team and longer projects like custom arms and actuatorsWork directly with ML, electrical and deployment engineers to turn manipulation problems into working hardwareWhat they’re looking for0 to 4 years of hands-on mechanical engineering in robotics, actuators or hardware products. Internships countStrong CAD (SolidWorks, Onshape or Fusion) plus real fabrication: machining, 3D printing, building things yourselfA maker mindset: personal projects, FSAE, Baja, motorsports, robotics or build clubs, machine shop experienceComfort with ambiguity, high ownership and switching between short projectsA mechanical engineering degree is preferred. A strong portfolio matters moreNice to haveInternships or experience at robotics, autonomy, aerospace or hardware startupsDFM across machining, sheet metal, injection moulding and additiveWhy joinGround floor of a physical AI company with serious fundingReal ownership: you design it, build it and see it deployedOPT and H1B transfers supportedTo apply: include a link to your portfolio or project work. Applications without one won’t be reviewed.