The Role
Mechanical Engineering Intern designing and validating robotic sensor hardware for harsh outdoor environments. Responsibilities include mechanical architecture, CAD, FEA, enclosure design, thermal and vibration management, tolerance analysis, DFM reviews, supplier coordination, prototype assembly, field testing, and system integration with robotics, perception, electrical, sensor, compute, and power systems.
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About Us
The Role
Minimum Requirements
What You'll Do
At moss.ag, we build robots to go where humans won't, digitizing the physical outdoor world to make it machine-readable. Starting with tree farms — where a single field holds millions of plants no human has ever fully inventoried. 🌲🤯🌳
We’re a small team of practical engineers with a long-term vision. We focus on real, messy, on-the-ground problems today, while working toward a future where autonomous field robots make harsh outdoor jobs easier and safer.
If our mission aligns with how you work and think, we’d love to learn more about you!
Join us as a Mechanical Engineering Intern on a fast-moving team of seven. Here, you’ll build things that actually get deployed. You’ll own projects across structural design, thermal performance, and packaging for our next-generation robotic sensor kits.
Be ready to work through the full hardware development cycle: concept CAD, rapid prototyping, FEA, DFM iteration, supplier coordination, assembly, and field validation in live farm environment.
We're looking for both a full time engineer, and intern candidates for co-ops, summer, and/or part-time roles.
- Track record of hands-on personal projects (outside the classroom) demonstrating hardware skills
- Demonstrated understanding of structural analysis and failure modes of complex mechanical systems
- Proficiency in CAD software and FEA modeling
- Solid understanding of GD&T
- Comfortable making first-principles engineering trade-offs, even with partial information
- Experience integrating sensors, compute, and/or power systems into physical assemblies
- Comfortable building, assembling, and debugging physical hardware
- Conceptualize new mechanical architectures for robotic systems in harsh environments
- Lead design reviews internally and externally with suppliers and partners
- Develop enclosure systems for thermal management, vibration resistance, and weather protection
- Perform tolerance analysis and DFM reviews with manufacturing partners
- Own prototype builds and field-test validation
- Collaborate closely with perception, robotics, and electrical teams to optimize full-system integration
Skills Required
- Hands-on personal hardware projects outside the classroom
- Understanding of structural analysis and failure modes of complex mechanical systems
- Proficiency in CAD software and FEA modeling
- Understanding of GD&T
- Ability to make first-principles engineering trade-offs with partial information
- Experience integrating sensors, compute, or power systems into physical assemblies
- Ability to build, assemble, and debug physical hardware
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The Company
What We Do
moss is an agtech company that designs and builds autonomous ground vehicles and robotics solutions for specialty crop farms. By utilizing a sophisticated stack of LiDAR, cameras, and GPS, the company provides farmers with high-fidelity digital inventory and field data. Their mission is to address labor shortages and enhance agricultural productivity by enabling autonomous farming through AI-powered monitoring and management of plant and field conditions.
