Mechatronics Engineer (Entry-level)

Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like inbounding goods, replenishing shelves and sorting stock, currently mostly overnight. They're driven from our control room in Stockholm and increasingly run on their own. We raised a €1.92M pre-seed in August 2026 and are live with retailers in Sweden and Finland. We're a small team based at Sankt Eriksgatan in Stockholm, where half the office is our own dark store.

About the role

You’ll work hands-on with the robot. Grippers, actuators, sensors, wiring, mounts, whatever the robot needs to survive a real store. Some of it will be properly engineered. Some of it needs to work by Thursday. You should be comfortable with both.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and fix electrical and mechanical subsystems on the robot

• Deploy robots into stores and see firsthand where they break

• Turn what you learn in stores into the next version of the hardware

• Work across the whole stack, including electronics, mechanics, wiring, and integration

What we’re looking for

• A generalist comfortable across a broad range of components and disciplines

• A tinkerer, maker, or someone who has taken more things apart than they’ve put back together

• Able to make something work in the short term and improve it later without confusing the two

• At home in a chaotic, fast-moving environment

• Ready to learn, even when that means researching unfamiliar issues as they arise

• We expect to fill this role in November or December 2026, so we may not be able to offer an immediate start

• You must already have the right to work in Sweden, as unfortunately, we’re not able to offer visa sponsorship at our current stage

Why join

• Build on real robots operating in real stores

• Work across disciplines rather than in a narrow silo

• Learn quickly from field deployments and hardware feedback

• Help shape the next version of the system