Mechanical Engineer

If designing high performance structures, elegant mechanisms, and reasoning through interesting product design problems is at the top of your dream job bucket list, look no further! As a Mechanical Engineer on the Atlas Structures and Mechanisms team, you will have the opportunity to apply your passion for structures, mechanisms, and problem solving to challenging open ended design problems as we race towards developing the world’s most capable and exciting electric humanoid robot product. 

Quickly navigating ambiguity, creative thinking, attention to detail, technical excellence, efficient communication, and a team first collaborative mindset are key superpowers that will lead to success. Every day you will strategize with a multidisciplinary team on the most efficient structural approach to achieving world class design efficiency while balancing constraints for high volume production. You will also brainstorm slick mechanisms and interfaces to elevate performance, perform the necessary analyses to gain confidence in your design, and validate your designs with bench top testing. You will contribute to solving difficult open ended problems such as robot coverings, lightweight energy absorbing crash protection, and safety problems such as pinch points and touch safe surfaces.

You will work closely across a large multidisciplinary team to dream up the highest performance mechanical designs that will enable an electrifying next generation Atlas robot.

How you will make an impact: 

• Interpret open-ended project requirements and distill into pragmatic sets of specifications for new designs

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary stakeholders and teammates to dream up, design, and develop prototype robots to achieve ambitious design targets

• Develop new concepts and perform analysis on designs while considering constraints from multiple disciplines with a product-oriented focus

• Create CAD models, drawings, specifications, assembly documentation, and test plans for parts and assemblies

• Troubleshoot issues, determine root causes, design and implement corrective and preventative solutions

• Manage and work with outside vendors for components and assemblies that require outsourcing

• Expertly manage more than one project concurrently while still meeting deadlines

• High level of technical communication proficiency

• Adapt quickly to changing project needs with a team first mindset

Desired Experience:

Any of the experience listed below would be applicable in this role, it is not expected that candidates would possess all of these qualifications

• BSME and relevant internship or school club experience

• Strong intuition of engineering principles, ability to take on new things using this knowledge

• Design of mechanisms and structures, high performance systems, production friendly designs, structural components, flexures, compliant energy absorbing structures, etc.

• Demonstrated ability to use CAD (Catia, NX, Solidworks, etc.) to model and analyze complex parts and assemblies, willingness to learn new systems if required

• Experience scrutinizing and optimizing designs with hand calculations , FEA, CFD, etc

• Experience building and testing your designs, general knowledge of prototyping methods

• Ability to produce detailed drawings using ASME standards including GD&T, (Y14.5-2018)

• Exposure to development efforts transitioning early designs to products [NPI, EVT, DVT]

• Ability to leverage a wide set of manufacturing methods, including those you may not have experience with - casting, sheet metal, stamping, composites, plastic molding, extrusion

• Soft skills: creative and team first thinking, excellent attention to detail, strong technical communication, a desire to take on new things, learn, and grow over time

A brief portfolio of images with short descriptions of recent work is required via either web-link or PDF.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position.