Mechanical Engineer

The role

You will perform mechanical integration of robots onto heavy mobile base platforms. You will design heavy-duty mechanical systems and architect reconfigurable platforms for construction environments.

What you will do

• Execute mechanical integration programs mating robotic arms and payloads to skid-steer and tracked vehicle platforms.
• Design and specify heavy-duty mechanical systems like mounts, brackets, enclosures, actuators, and end-effectors.
• Architect platforms for reconfigurability across construction tasks.
• Own environmental strategy including IP67-rated enclosures, gasketing, and thermal management.
• Design, route, and validate wire harnesses and cable assemblies.
• Integrate sensor and lighting packages.
• Drive DFM, DFA, and DFS from the first CAD review.
• Run structural analysis and own the validation plan for vibration, shock, thermal, ingress, and EMI.
• Work with machine shops, sheet metal vendors, and harness houses.
• Go to the field to diagnose failures and instrument systems.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on mechanical engineering experience with a focus on robotics, autonomous systems, or heavy equipment.
• Demonstrated initiative, creative problem-solving skills, and a self-starter mindset.
• Direct experience integrating robotic arms, actuators, or heavy payloads onto mobile platforms.
• Experience designing to IP67 or stricter and familiarity with shipping systems that survived real outdoor deployments.
• Strong hands-on cabling and harness design experience.
• Expert CAD proficiency (OnShape/Solidworks).
• Comfort with GD&T, tolerance stacks, and production-quality drawings.
• Structural analysis chops on heavy systems.
• Comfort moving fast in a scale-up.
• Willingness to travel to field sites (~15–25%) including active construction environments.

Nice to have

• Experience specifically with construction equipment, agricultural equipment, mining robotics, or defense ground vehicles.
• Experience designing platforms intended to support multiple end-effectors, payloads, or task configurations.
• Background integrating perception stacks.
• Familiarity with hydraulics, pneumatics, or high-current DC power distribution on mobile platforms.
• Experience owning supplier relationships for castings, weldments, or large machined parts.
• Prior work on systems operating in desert Southwest or northern-climate conditions specifically.

About the company

Gritt is an intelligent system that combines robotics and AI to build infrastructure. The founding team includes experts in robotics and AI from Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and MIT.