Mechanical Design Engineer – Humanoid Robotics

🤖 Mechanical Design Engineer – Humanoid Robotics

Full-time

“At Proception, we are engineering the next generation of highly dexterous humanoid manipulators. Our mission is to bring machines closer to human capability by merging innovative mechanical design, sensor integration, and intelligent control. We're looking for a full-time Mechanical Design Engineer to lead structural and actuation design for our humanoid upper body and hand systems. You’ll work at the frontier of mechanical performance, electromechanical integration, and rapid prototyping to enable breakthrough physical intelligence.”

• Architect and design high-DOF robotic arms and hands for dynamic manipulation
• Build gear trains, compliant mechanisms, and tendon systems that outperform current state-of-the‑art
• Drive simulation, analysis, prototyping, and testing in a no‑silos, build‑it‑yourself workflow
• Iterate hardware based on test data, field failure, or system noise—fast
• Collaborate tightly with controls, perception, and firmware teams to deliver integrated, elegant robots
• Write clear, transferable documentation for scaling what works—and killing what doesn’t
• Design and test mechanical systems for humanoids, exoskeletons, prosthetics, soft robots, or tendon drives
• Validate mechanical systems through testing and analysis

• 1+ years of experience designing mission‑critical mechanical systems for robotics, aerospace, or automation
• Mastery of CAD (Solid Works, Fusion), FEA, and precision design
• Experience prototyping with your own hands—machining, printing, assembling, debugging
• Built gear trains—strain wave, planetary, cycloidal—or designed your own
• Fluent in tolerance stack‑ups, material properties, thermal constraints, and load paths
• Designed for real‑world wear, slop, EMI, torque ripple, and backlash
• Experience with humanoids, exoskeletons, prosthetics, soft robots, or tendon drives
• Startup reflexes: you bias toward execution, learn fast, and document like it matters

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Work with world‑class researchers and engineers in AI and robotics
• High‑ownership role with opportunity to lead mechanical design efforts
• Help define and build next‑generation embodied intelligence systems