Senior Mechanical Engineer, Hands (Sunnyvale, CA, US) - Relocation Supported

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⭐About Our Client

We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer, Hands for our client's - a global robotics company's - growing team in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

*Relocation from other countries is supported by the company.

Requirements

Job Description:

• Conception, design, prototyping, and testing for subsystems of the robot hand
• Collaboration with electrical design teams for integration of electric motors and production teams for manufacturing and assembly
  Continuous optimization of parts and assemblies for simplicity, weight, and cost
• Create quality drawings for manufacturing and production
• Author concise documentation of design details, requirements, and test plan

Qualifications:

Must-Haves

• Bachelors or higher education in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Biomechanical Engineering, Design Engineering, or related field
• Expert in CAD (Solidworks preferred)
• Experience working with surfacing, complex geometry, organic designs, or topology optimization
• Experience designing and building prototypes of mechanical linkages with several Degrees of Freedom
• Experience creating technical drawings using GD&T
• Experience with structural FEA (Ansys preferred)
  Strong knowledge of manufacturing techniques to ensure manufacturability for mid and high volume manufacturing
• Experience bringing complex products from concept to production
• Understanding of highly dynamic environments where balancing competing priorities and timelines is needed

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in hand/end-effector design
• Knowledge of hand biomechanics
• Experience in designing robots, understanding of kinematics and dynamics of robotics systems
• Experience developing highly complex mechatronics systems with several Degrees of Freedom
• Experience with in casting/extrusion DFM
• Experience with FMEA
• Experience with electromechanical integration, including PCBs, sensors, motors etc.