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Our machines will survive, coordinate, and recover without humans. We believe scalable machine labor requires more than single-agent task generality or machines shaped in our image.\nAbout the role\nYou will design the structures and mechanisms that carry insectoid loads and protect critical systems. You will move from first-principles sizing through detailed CAD, drawings, prototype hardware, instrumented test, and released revisions across lightweight structures, joints, housings, covers, routing, interfaces, and mechanisms.\nYou will own the structural, alignment, environmental, thermal-packaging, routing, and service integration of machine subsystems, including the physical interfaces for actuator modules. The work demands explicit load cases and margins proved on physical hardware.\nWhat you will do\nTurn robot motion, contact, transport, service, and fault cases into free-body diagrams, load cases, structural requirements, margins, and verification plans.\nSelect and mechanically integrate actuators; design load-bearing body structures, joints and mechanisms, sensor and compute mounts, environmental enclosures, protective elements, and cable or hose routing.\nProduce release-quality 3D CAD, assemblies, drawings, GD&T, tolerance stacks, material and process specifications, and bills of materials.\nUse hand calculations and FEA to evaluate stress, stiffness, buckling, fatigue, vibration, impact, fastener behavior, and thermal distortion.\nBuild and instrument prototypes; correlate strain, displacement, load, modal, impact, and cycle-life measurements with predictions.\nInvestigate cracks, yielding, loosening, wear, fretting, misalignment, ingress, and assembly discrepancies, then carry corrections through verified retest.\nMinimum qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.\nReleased complex mechanical parts and assemblies in a major CAD system such as NX, CATIA, Creo, or SolidWorks, including drawings and ASME Y14.5 GD&T.\nGenerated and released calculations for the governing structural failure modes and tolerance stack of hardware subsequently fabricated and tested.\nTook a complex mechanical assembly from CAD and drawings through fabrication, inspection, assembly, and instrumented test, resolving an as-built tolerance or process failure.\nProduced measured structural or mechanism test data and used it to resolve a fracture, deformation, fatigue, vibration, wear, or tolerance-driven failure through verified redesign.\nPreferred experience\nLightweight robotic, aerospace, automotive, or industrial mechanisms operating under dynamic and repeated loads.\nNonlinear or dynamic FEA, modal testing, fracture mechanics, tribology, sealing, or environmental protection.\nDesign for assembly, supplier technical review, inspection planning, or prototype-to-production transfer.\nThe annual base salary range for this San Francisco Bay Area position is $150,000-$185,000. 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