Mechanical Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our dynamic team at Medra. Your primary responsibility will be to design, test, and implement the hardware necessary for our robotic automation solutions. This role requires a strong mechanical intuition, hardware debugging and assembly skills, and a passion for tackling complex engineering challenges.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, test, validate and iterate on mechanical systems
• Create detailed designs in CAD and well-specified, accurate drawings
• Design, fabricate, test and iterate on hardware prototypes
• Develop robotic solutions to manipulate and control biology tools designed for humans

Requirements

• A love for operating in an experimental and fast-paced environment
• Strong mechanical intuition and hardware debugging and assembly skills
• Passion for the gritty details of part design, material selection, and manufacturing techniques
• Experience with mechanical engineering tools and best practices in production to design components, produce drawings, and build assemblies
• Experience designing, building, testing, and scaling hardware
• A hacker’s mindset - getting quickly to a good-enough solution
• Hands-on and willing to cross-discipline boundaries to solve a problem
• A willingness to wear many hats / a flexible attitude towards responsibilities and scope

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics or a related discipline, or equivalent experience

Bonus Points

• Experience managing PLM/document control systems
• Mechatronics and circuit design background
• Knowledge of robotics, motion control, camera, force/torque sensors
• Experience or familiarity with robot arm manipulators
• Experience with robotics in a laboratory or manufacturing environment
• Experience writing code for robotics systems

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Relocation benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Weekday dinners

Schedule

This position is 100% in-person and requires you to come on-site to our San Francisco office. We offer relocation benefits for applicants who need to relocate.

Pay

$110K - $200K

Company Culture

We are a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers and scientists from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We are collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting! As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other. Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don't mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Medra is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.