About Enact
The next defining technological breakthrough will be in the physical world. We stand at a historical inflection point: bringing general-purpose intelligence into robotics.
At Enact we rethink the entire robotic tech stack from model architectures and data pipelines, to the actuators and sensors that feed the model. Pushing beyond pure vision and language approaches, we build a proprioceptive nerve system, and the cortex that makes sense of it, to solve dexterity through whole-body force-awareness and deploy robots for thousands of tasks in industry and beyond.
We are shaping a company where brilliant and unconventional people thrive together on solving the hardest challenges of our time. We are truth seekers. We reason from first principles, test our beliefs against reality, and trust that the best ideas can come from anyone. We move fast. We care deeply about our work and colleagues and are driven by passion to change the status quo.
If this resonates, we're excited to hear from you.
In This Role
You will drive our next-gen robotic actuators from prototyping to manufacturing and characterization, working together with our team to turn real-world insights and design feedback into the next evolution of robotic actuation. You'll be hands-on, developing test setups and process improvements, turning ideas into working systems fast.
Motor Test & Characterization: You will design and build our actuator test setups and rigs, and characterize motor performance: parameters, torque-ripple, cogging, efficiency, and thermal behavior, for our actuators.
Quality & Reliability: You will own motor quality and reliability: FMEA, and life and thermal-cycle testing to prove our actuators survive real use.
Root-Cause Analysis & Improvement: You will investigate failures and performance drift, drive corrective actions, and feed findings back into our design and production process.
Data, Reporting & Acceptance Criteria: You will run systematic data collection and technical reporting, and define the acceptance criteria and KPIs that gate every unit we ship.
What We're Looking For
Degree (BSc/MSc) in mechanical, mechatronic, or electrical engineering/equivalent hands-on experience.
Experience in testing, characterization, or quality and reliability engineering.
Hands-on design and build of test rigs: torque sensors and load cells, dynamometers, encoders, thermocouples etc.
Fluency with measurement uncertainty and setup calibration
A rigorous, data-driven approach to root-cause analysis and improving both product and process.
Strong CAD skills for fixtures and test hardware.
Language: We are an international team, fluency in English is a must have.
Bonus Points If You Have
Supplier quality experience: incoming inspection
Familiarity with motor control, motor drives and current sensing
Familiarity with high degree of freedom robotic systems
Applied statistics in production context
What we offer
The opportunity to make a real impact working on some of the biggest challenges of our time
A fast-paced learning environment alongside an outstanding, driven team
Ownership from day one, with the ability to iterate quickly and see your impact firsthand in an early-stage startup
Visa sponsorship & relocation benefits to hire the best in the world
A world-class in-person setup in central Zürich, with excellent prototyping, robotics, and technical infrastructure for hands-on builders
Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical, mechatronic, or electrical engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Experience in testing, characterization, or quality and reliability engineering
- Hands-on experience designing and building test rigs using torque sensors, load cells, dynamometers, encoders, and thermocouples
- Fluency with measurement uncertainty and setup calibration
- Data-driven root-cause analysis and product and process improvement skills
- Strong CAD skills for fixtures and test hardware
- Fluency in English
- Supplier quality experience, including incoming inspection
- Familiarity with motor control, motor drives, and current sensing
- Familiarity with high-degree-of-freedom robotic systems
- Applied statistics in a production context
What We Do
Enact Intelligence is a Zurich-based robotics company developing an integrated technology stack for dexterous robots. It combines model architectures, data pipelines, actuators, and sensors into a proprioceptive “nerve system” and “cortex” for whole-body force awareness. Its goal is to deploy robots capable of performing thousands of industrial and other tasks, with a team drawn from robotics, AI, and engineering organizations.
