Mechanical Design Engineer, Plastics

The role

This person will own the mechanical design of A-surface plastic components for the robot. They will translate industrial design intent into manufacturable parts and work with tool shops and molders through production.

What you will do

• Own mechanical design of A-surface plastic components from industrial design intent through production tooling
• Develop Class-A surfaces and translate ID surfacing into manufacturable parts
• Select polymers and processes across the cosmetic stack
• Define and own GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, and datum schemes
• Drive DFM and DFA for injection molding, insert molding, overmolding, and secondary operations
• Own cosmetic specification including textures, gloss levels, color matching, painting, plating, laser etching, and in-mold decoration
• Work directly with tool shops, molders, and CMs through tool kickoff, sampling, tuning, and PPAP
• Build and test prototypes using 3D printing, urethane casting, CNC, and soft tooling

Required qualifications

• 5+ years designing injection-molded plastic parts for high-volume consumer, automotive, or robotics products
• Deep, hands-on knowledge of polymer materials science
• Fluent in GD&T (ASME Y14.5 or ISO GPS) and tolerance analysis
• Proven experience owning cosmetic A-surface parts and defending appearance standards with vendors
• Strong surfacing skills in SolidWorks, CATIA, NX, Creo, or similar
• Comfort reading mold flow results and tool drawings
• Exceptional mechanical intuition

About the company

Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor.