Senior Mechanical Engineer

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About AIM - AIM is a well-funded, mission-oriented startup focused on radically scaling our civilization’s capabilities to build planetary-scale infrastructure and reverse negative effects of climate change. ((Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).). We are growing the team with motivated individuals with a passion for landing great products built with a strong engineering culture. If you find massive robots making a positive impact in the real world tantalizing, get in touch!

AIM has been built by a team of engineers who landed cutting‑edge systems at Google, Waymo, Space

X, Tesla, Apple, Dropbox, Stripe, Google[x] and Microsoft, and are backed by General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Elad Gil, Human Capital, Ironspring Ventures, Mantis, DCVC, among other great allies.

About us

AIM builds autonomy for the real world - robots that move mountains. Our systems combine software, hardware, robotics, and mission‑critical infrastructure into ruggedized, safety‑critical machinery operating in some of the harshest environments on earth. Our customers depend on our machines to work reliably in dust, mud, vibration, shock loads, thermal extremes, and unpredictable jobsite conditions.

Mechanical engineering is at the foundation of this mission. Our hardware must be structurally robust, manufacturable, field‑serviceable, environmentally sealed, vibration‑tolerant, and deeply integrated with autonomy, electrical, and software systems. We design mechanical systems that perform not just in CAD or simulation, but in real‑world chaos: misalignment, wear, debris, hydraulic spray, operator variability, and global deployment.

We’re scaling fast and building the mechanical engineering foundation that will define the next century of construction and autonomy.

About you

You’re a builder who thrives at the intersection of mechanical design, robotics, and field‑hardened hardware. You design simple, robust mechanical systems backed by strong engineering fundamentals - machine design, strength of materials, fatigue, joint design, NVH, thermal behavior, and manufacturability. You move confidently between CAD, analysis, prototyping, validation, and field debugging.

You take end‑to‑end ownership of your subsystems - from concept to production, and from test failures to corrective redesign. You work fluidly across electrical, autonomy, software, and field deployment teams. You have high judgment in ambiguous situations and can connect mechanical decisions directly to customer outcomes and machine behavior.

You want to solve problems where correctness, durability, safety, and reliability matter —and where your designs directly power autonomous heavy equipment in the field.

About us together

We’re going to change how the world builds. Along the way, we’ll take on mechanical engineering challenges such as:

• Shock, vibration, and fatigue loads that exceed typical industrial design envelopes
• High‑precision mechanical integration of sensors, compute, and electronics
• Environmental sealing against dust, moisture, mud, and hydraulic contamination
• Structural design of steel weldments, brackets, housings, and protective assemblies
• Thermal and NVH considerations under dynamic real‑world loads
• Field variability, installation constraints, and operator behavior
• Durability and reliability across global deployments

We will iterate quickly, debate solutions, confront the truth when designs fail, and build mechanisms that elevate reliability over time. We’ll ship hardware that works not only in the lab, but on dozers, excavators, and loaders operating in the elements
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If that excites you, you’re the kind of Senior Mechanical Engineer who will thrive here.

What you will own

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will design and deliver the core mechanical systems that enable AIM’s autonomous machines to operate safely, reliably, and predictably in the field.

Architect & Deliver Robust Mechanical Systems

• Own major mechanical subsystems such as sensor suites, compute enclosures, LiDAR/camera mounts,…