Job Description

Overview

We’re seeking a Senior Mechatronics Engineer - Application R&D to join our NYC-based team and help lead the development of our robot and the tools it uses in real customer warehouses. We are an early stage company moving very fast in a rapidly growing space, and welcome people from any background as long as you’re excited to join our mission, drive immediate impact, and create a future where automation is accessible to all.

What You’ll Do

• Design and deploy robot tooling and end effectors that expand our capabilities and solve real customer problems.
• Work closely with our team of robot pilots to optimize robot performance for these capabilities- our customers are asking us to develop new capabilities every day, and they have performance metrics we need to be able to hit.
• Lead rapid design loops to ship improvements fast — prototype, validate on the robots in the lab, learn, and refine.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions for tools and peripherals, selecting off-the-shelf components when smart and developing custom parts when it creates strategic advantage.
• Work hands-on with the broader engineering team to make your work compatible with our autonomy stack and ready to scale with our robot platform.

Who You Are

• You are a mechatronics Swiss army knife, capable of working on every part of the hardware stack for our robotic systems, and have multiple years of experience working in robotics.
• You have a portfolio of designing ingenious devices using a wide variety of mechanical and electrical approaches.
• You enjoy problem solving, almost to a fault.
• You thrive in a high-trust, high-autonomy environment. You don’t need to be micromanaged because you are used to working backwards from customer needs and focusing on the most valuable work.
• You are hungry for impact and personal growth. Your dream job is an opportunity to work hard with a team of like-minded engineers building the future of robotics.

Experience and Skills

• The full mechatronics stack:
• 3D design, rapid prototyping, and design for manufacturing
• Mechanical and electrical assembly - from machine tools, to soldering, to debugging electrical
• Sourcing and testing components such as motors, cameras, and raw materials
• Tying designs together with code
• Communication: good with customers and vendors alike. You know how to build relationships across the board and maintain them while helping us achieve our goals.
• Great at digging deep on a problem, pulling all of your knowledge and connections together to help us build the most performant robots we can
• Comfortable with travel to customer and supplier sites