Senior Manufacturing Electrical Engineer, Joints & Body

The role

You will build mechanical systems for humanoid robots. You will own parts of the NEO body and joint architecture from concept through design, prototyping, validation, and production.

What you will do

• Design and release production-ready body, joint, and structural systems
• Develop compact electromechanical joint architectures
• Improve robot mass, stiffness, strength, range of motion, packaging efficiency, durability, and serviceability
• Build and test prototypes rapidly
• Develop engineering requirements, tolerance analyses, test methods, and validation plans
• Support hardware through prototype builds, design validation, NPI, and production ramp
• Partner with controls, electrical, manufacturing, reliability, and supply chain teams

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or a related field
• 5+ years of mechanical engineering experience developing complex mechanical or electromechanical products
• Strong experience designing mechanisms, structural components, precision assemblies, or robotic systems
• Advanced proficiency with 3D CAD
• Experience owning complex mechanical assemblies from concept through released drawings
• Strong understanding of mechanical design fundamentals including statics, dynamics, materials, fatigue, friction, fasteners, bearings, and tolerance analysis
• Experience with GD&T, tolerance stack analysis, drawing release, and production documentation
• Experience designing components for machining, casting, molding, sheet metal, additive manufacturing, or other production processes
• Experience building and testing prototypes and using test results to drive design decisions
• Experience integrating mechanical systems with motors, sensors, electronics, wiring, and other electromechanical components
• Experience collaborating with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, electrical, controls, and systems engineering organizations

Nice to have

• Experience designing robotic actuators, joints, transmissions, or humanoid robotic systems
• Experience with electric motors, gearboxes, belt or cable transmissions, bearings, encoders, torque sensing, brakes, or other motion-control hardware
• Experience designing lightweight structures with aggressive strength, stiffness, packaging, and mass constraints
• Experience with FEA, fatigue analysis, structural optimization, thermal analysis, or other engineering simulation methods
• Experience developing hardware exposed to repeated dynamic loading, impacts, shock, vibration, or high duty cycles
• Experience designing mechanisms with high range of motion and complex packaging constraints
• Experience with materials and processes such as aluminum, steel, polymers, composites, castings, forgings, injection molding, and precision machining
• Experience developing mechanical test fixtures, life-cycle tests, characterization rigs, or reliability validation systems
• Experience operating in fast-paced hardware environments with rapid design iteration and frequent prototype builds
• Experience supporting products through NPI, design validation, reliability testing, and production ramp-up

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
• 401(k) plan with company match (100% on the first 3% of contributions, 50% on the next 2%)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options
• Commuter benefits (transit and parking)
• Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support
• Onsite snacks and catered lunches

About the company

1X builds humanoid robots that work in homes to do chores and handle tasks. They are developing NEO, a flagship home robot designed to move, learn, and operate in the real world.