Gearbox Design Engineer (Human)

Posted 18 Days Ago
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2 Locations
In-Office
Entry level
Robotics
The Role
Design and develop high-precision, low-backlash gearboxes for robotic drives from initial concepts through manufacturing readiness. Responsibilities include gearbox sizing, gear and bearing concept development, tolerance and materials definition, lubrication selection, service-life and stiffness collaboration, prototype building and testing, optimization, and technical coordination with suppliers and manufacturing partners.
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The Mechanical Development team designs the drives, structural parts, and peripherals of our robots. From first concept to manufacturing-ready drawing, this is where lightweight, precise, and series-ready components come to life.

Your mission & challenges

You develop high-precision, low-backlash gearboxes for robotic drives and bring them to series maturity together with suppliers and simulation.

  • Sizing and designing precision gearboxes (e.g., strain wave, cycloidal, planetary gearboxes)

  • Defining tolerances, materials, lubrication, and bearing concepts

  • Collaborating with gearbox/bearing simulation on service-life and stiffness sizing

  • Building, testing, and optimizing gearbox prototypes

  • Technical coordination with gearbox suppliers and manufacturing

What we're looking for

  • Degree in mechanical engineering with a focus on drive technology/design

  • Experience in gearbox development, ideally precision or robotics gearboxes

  • Knowledge of gear design, tolerance management, and tribology

  • Confident use of 3D CAD and sizing tools (e.g., KISSsoft)

  • Analytical thinking and enthusiasm for demanding precision mechanics

Skills Required

  • Degree in mechanical engineering with a focus on drive technology or design
  • Experience in gearbox development
  • Experience with precision or robotics gearboxes
  • Knowledge of gear design, tolerance management, and tribology
  • Confident use of 3D CAD and gearbox sizing tools such as KISSsoft
  • Analytical thinking and enthusiasm for precision mechanics
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The Company
HQ: Metzingen
180 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

NEURA Robotics is a German high-tech company founded in 2019 in Metzingen near Stuttgart with the vision to revolutionize the world of robotics. More than 180 team members from over 30 countries are working on advanced technologies in the fields of environmental perception, drive and control technology, material science, mechanical design, and artificial intelligence. We are expanding the cognitive capabilities of robots and make breakthrough advances in a variety of areas to bring robots and humans closer together, making many areas of work more attractive, creative, and social again. That's why everything we do runs under the guiding principle "we serve humanity". In a very short period of time, NEURA Robotics has developed robots and technologies that are characterized above all by their outstanding performance as well as safe and human-centred way of working. In this way, a wide variety of application fields can be covered, from intelligent production to medical technology. All major robot components are developed and designed in-house. Imprint: https://www.neura-robotics.com/legal Privacy: https://www.neura-robotics.com/privacy

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