Mechanical Engineer

The role

You will lead the mechanical design of wearable capture hardware. This includes mechanical architecture, optical mounts, power packaging, thermal management, and manufacturing handoff.

What you will do

• Chassis design across consumer-grade and production-grade materials
• Packaging, weight distribution, and human fit
• Serviceability and assembly architecture
• Camera and lens mounting systems for multi-camera arrays
• Tolerance stack-up against calibration accuracy targets
• Kinematic alignment systems and bonded inserts
• Battery enclosures including swap mechanisms
• Connector layout and cable routing
• Drop and impact resistance
• Passive thermal dissipation in tight wearable form factors

Required qualifications

• Hands-on mechanical CAD: SolidWorks, NX, Creo, or Fusion 360
• Shipped consumer or wearable hardware to real users
• DFM fluency across CNC, injection molding, and sheet metal
• Tolerance stack-up and GD&T for precision optical systems
• Structural and thermal FEA

Nice to have

• Head-worn or body-worn product background (AR/VR, action cameras, sports tech, smart eyewear)
• Composite chassis design (carbon fiber, cyanate ester matrix)
• Multi-camera optical alignment
• Direct work with Asian ODMs and tooling shops
• Background in research-grade capture systems or medical wearables

About the company

Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, the lab builds custom hardware products to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model.