We are looking for a talented Mechanical Design Engineer to join our dexterous hands development team. You will work alongside senior engineers who lead this field and bring extensive experience in miniature mechanisms.
This is a highly hands-on position in a fast-moving, multidisciplinary environment. You will take mechanisms from early concepts through detailed design, prototyping, testing, iteration, and preparation for production.
Responsibilities:
Design compact, high-performance mechanisms for dexterous robotic hands, fingers, and wrists.
Develop joints, transmissions, actuation systems, tendon or cable-driven mechanisms, and sensor-integrated components.
Perform kinematic, force, tolerance, and structural analyses.
Create detailed 3D CAD models, assemblies, production drawings, and bills of materials.
Build and assemble prototypes and conduct hands-on mechanical testing.
Design test fixtures and define practical validation procedures.
Investigate failures, identify root causes, and rapidly implement design improvements.
Select materials, bearings, fasteners, springs, cables, actuators, sensors, and manufacturing processes.
Work closely with controls, electronics, software, industrial design, and manufacturing engineers.
Collaborate with suppliers and support the transition from prototypes to repeatable production.
Requirements: B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field.
At least 5 years of professional experience in mechanical design.
Strong 3D CAD (SolidWorks) skills and experience producing manufacturing-ready drawings.
Solid understanding of mechanical design fundamentals, including tolerances, fits, materials, mechanisms, and load paths.
Experience designing small, precise, tightly packaged mechanical assemblies.
Practical experience assembling, testing, troubleshooting, and improving physical prototypes.
Familiarity with machining, additive manufacturing, sheet metal, molding, and other relevant manufacturing processes.
Ability to work independently, make sound engineering decisions, and move quickly from concept to hardware.
Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across disciplines.
A proactive, curious, and highly hands-on approach.
Advantages:
Experience with robotic hands, grippers, prosthetics, medical devices, microsurgical instruments, or other miniature mechanisms.
Experience with tendon-driven or cable-driven mechanisms.
Knowledge of motors, gearboxes, encoders, force or tactile sensors, and electromechanical integration.
Experience with tolerance-stack analysis, FEA, mechanism simulation, or design optimization.
Experience designing products for reliability, assembly, and volume manufacturing.
Familiarity with testing mechanisms for lifetime, wear, friction, backlash, and repeatability.
This position is open to all candidates.