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Mechanical Engineer, Robotics Hardware

Field-ai
Irvine, USA
Full-time
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USD 70000-200000 yearly / year
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  • Structures: Design and model mechanical structures including external enclosures, internal compute frames, and load-bearing chassis.
  • Mounts: Design and validate robust sensor mounts, payload attachment points, and mechanical interfaces.
  • Ingress Protection: Implement IP-rated solutions with gaskets, seals, membranes, and coatings to meet water/dust ingress standards.
  • Thermal Management: Incorporate thermal mitigation strategies such as fans, heat sinks, conductive paths, and airflow guides.
  • Mass & Volume Budgets: Ensure adherence to payload constraints, including tight volumetric envelopes and weight limitations.
  • CAD & Simulation: Build detailed SolidWorks CAD assemblies. Run FEA and thermal simulations to validate strength, durability, and heat dissipation.
  • Material & Component Selection: Choose materials and components to meet mass, strength, thermal, and manufacturability constraints.
  • Design for Production: Apply DFM, DFA, DFS principles throughout the design lifecycle.
  • System Testing: Conduct mechanical load testing (shock, vibration), thermal validation, ingress tests, and sensor alignment assessments.
  • Prototyping: Rapidly iterate on prototypes for fit checks, thermal evaluations, and integration trials.
  • Documentation & Budgets: Generate mechanical drawings, GD&T annotations, BOMs, and assembly instructions for fabrication and QA. Manage weight, volume, and thermal budgets.
  • Build: Work with vendors and contract manufacturers to procure mechanical hardware. Develop QA checks for incoming units. Support payload integration and scaling.
  • Debug: Investigate mechanical failures, deformation, and environmental weaknesses during testing and deployments.
  • Monitor: Develop protocols for monitoring the system mechanical health and loads.
  • Education: B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field.
  • Experience Level: We are recruiting across a wide range of experience levels from entry level engineers to senior and staff engineers.
  • CAD Expertise: Proficient with SolidWorks or equivalent mechanical CAD platforms.
  • Thermal & Structural Analysis: Familiarity with FEA and thermal modeling tools.
  • Field-Ready Design: Experience designing hardware that survives vibration, shock, thermal cycling, and environmental exposure.
  • Manufacturing Knowledge: Experience designing for CNC, sheet metal, additive manufacturing, and assembly workflows.
  • Mechanical Systems Integration: Experience working across teams to integrate mechanical systems with compute, sensors, and power electronics.
  • Lab Skills: Comfort with mechanical debugging, thermal test setups, vibration tables, and ingress testing.
  • Cross Functional Robotic Skills: Ability to contribute electrical, sensing, and embedded computing work to deliver robust integrated systems.
  • 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.
  • Systems Level Robotics: Fluency across mechanical, electrical, and software systems.
  • Reliability Engineering: Experience designing to meet IP ratings, MIL-STD, or equivalent ruggedness standards.
  • Structures: Design and model mechanical structures including external enclosures, internal compute frames, and load-bearing chassis.
  • Mounts: Design and validate robust sensor mounts, payload attachment points, and mechanical interfaces.
  • Ingress Protection: Implement IP-rated solutions with gaskets, seals, membranes, and coatings to meet water/dust ingress standards.
  • Thermal Management: Incorporate thermal mitigation strategies such as fans, heat sinks, conductive paths, and airflow guides.
  • Mass & Volume Budgets: Ensure adherence to payload constraints, including tight volumetric envelopes and weight limitations.
  • CAD & Simulation: Build detailed SolidWorks CAD assemblies. Run FEA and thermal simulations to validate strength, durability, and heat dissipation.
  • Material & Component Selection: Choose materials and components to meet mass, strength, thermal, and manufacturability constraints.
  • Design for Production: Apply DFM, DFA, DFS principles throughout the design lifecycle.
  • System Testing: Conduct mechanical load testing (shock, vibration), thermal validation, ingress tests, and sensor alignment assessments.
  • Prototyping: Rapidly iterate on prototypes for fit checks, thermal evaluations, and integration trials.
  • Documentation & Budgets: Generate mechanical drawings, GD&T annotations, BOMs, and assembly instructions for fabrication and QA. Manage weight, volume, and thermal budgets.
  • Build: Work with vendors and contract manufacturers to procure mechanical hardware. Develop QA checks for incoming units. Support payload integration and scaling.
  • Debug: Investigate mechanical failures, deformation, and environmental weaknesses during testing and deployments.
  • Monitor: Develop protocols for monitoring the system mechanical health and loads.
  • Education: B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field.
  • Experience Level: We are recruiting across a wide range of experience levels from entry level engineers to senior and staff engineers.
  • CAD Expertise: Proficient with SolidWorks or equivalent mechanical CAD platforms.
  • Thermal & Structural Analysis: Familiarity with FEA and thermal modeling tools.
  • Field-Ready Design: Experience designing hardware that survives vibration, shock, thermal cycling, and environmental exposure.
  • Manufacturing Knowledge: Experience designing for CNC, sheet metal, additive manufacturing, and assembly workflows.
  • Mechanical Systems Integration: Experience working across teams to integrate mechanical systems with compute, sensors, and power electronics.
  • Lab Skills: Comfort with mechanical debugging, thermal test setups, vibration tables, and ingress testing.
  • Cross Functional Robotic Skills: Ability to contribute electrical, sensing, and embedded computing work to deliver robust integrated systems.
  • 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.
  • Systems Level Robotics: Fluency across mechanical, electrical, and software systems.
  • Reliability Engineering: Experience designing to meet IP ratings, MIL-STD, or equivalent ruggedness standards.

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