Founding Mechanical Integration Engineer - Forward Deployed
Core
Design mechanical mounts, interfaces, and connections to integrate robotics products onto customer transit vehicles while leading on-site deployment and debugging.
Role type
Founding Mechanical Integration Engineer (forward-deployed)
Builds
Initial production version of autonomous public transit system for early customer fleets
Domain
Autonomous vehicles / Public transit / Robotics
Required skills
Mechanical engineering problem solving, designing and shipping production parts for robotics/embedded systems, cross-domain technical understanding (mechanical, electrical, software, firmware), on-site hardware debugging, root cause analysis, establishing deployment best practices
Preferred skills
Master's in Mechanical Engineering, integrating multi-modal embedded sensor stacks (autonomous vehicles, EVs, drones, humanoid robots), customer-facing technical experience
Technologies
Embedded systems, robotics platforms, transit vehicle integration
Responsibilities
Design mechanical and electrical interfaces for product integration, lead initial product installations on customer vehicles, perform hands-on debugging and root cause analysis on live hardware, build rollout standards and continuous integration workflows
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC
