Mechanical Engineer

Noble Machines (formerly Under Control Robotics) builds multipurpose robots to support human workers in the world's toughest jobs—turning dangerous work from a necessity into a choice. Our work demands reliability, robustness, and readiness for the unexpected—on time, every time. We're assembling a mission-driven team focused on delivering real impact in heavy industry, from construction and mining to energy.

About the Role

At Noble Machines, building robots is a team sport. As a mechanical engineer, you'll take ownership and lead the development of advanced electro-mechanical systems powering multipurpose humanoid robots in the real world. You'll design, build, document, and maintain state-of-the-art hardware systems that enable robots to move freely across diverse environments and perform useful manipulation tasks.

Responsibilities

• Drive design and development of mechanical systems across the robot
• Use your technical knowledge to execute on structural sizing, mechanism design, hardware fabrication, and testing to deliver results on projects
• Partner with peer design owners such as interfacing systems, avionics, and structures to rapidly deliver integrated systems and subsystems on the robots
• Conduct design reviews with stakeholders and customers
• Manage on-site integration teams and implement integration feedback into the design
• Diagnose and operate robot mechanisms during development and deployed operations
• Perform engineering hand calculations and analysis to size structures and mechanisms
• Create detailed models and engineering prints in SolidWorks
• Build and prototype systems in the lab
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary engineering teams to drive software-hardware co-design
• Design and build test equipment for both subsystem and complete system tests

Requirements

• 4+ years of total experience in one or more of the following: involvement with an outside-of-the-classroom project designing and building mechanical structures; academic research on mechanical structures; professional experience designing and analyzing mechanical structures
• Experience building hardware or have a passion for contributing to a work product that operates in the real world
• Demonstrated rapid growth. You've held successive positions of increasing responsibility within an organization, were able to get yourself up to speed at a heroic pace, and accomplished something meaningfully difficult early in your career
• Experience using a high-end CAD software design package (e.g., NX, CATIA, SolidWorks, etc.)—SolidWorks preferred
• Experience designing and validating large metallic structures and/or mechanisms
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Understanding of design considerations including design for rapid manufacturability, design of tests, etc.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment with engineers, technicians, and leaders

Nice to Have

• Experience working in a production facility with equipment and machinery
• Experience managing large CAD assembly models and drawings
• Experience with finite element analysis
• Experience designing and fabricating mass-efficient structures
• Experience designing and testing mechanisms
• Experience designing and specifying motors and actuators
• Strong understanding and application of GD&T