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Materials and Process Innovation Engineer

San Carlos, CA💼 Full-time💰 $142,000–$142,000🗓 2026-06-17 → 2026-07-30

Core

Develop, optimize, and scale fabrication processes for advanced soft materials, polymers, elastomers, composites, textiles, coatings, and multilayer systems to enable next-generation humanoid robots.

Role type

Materials and Process Innovation Engineer

Builds

Robust, scalable manufacturing workflows for humanoid robot components

Domain

Robotics manufacturing / Advanced materials engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Materials processing and manufacturing science, Experimental process optimization, Cross-functional collaboration, First-principles problem solving, Data-driven validation, Manufacturing scale-up

Preferred skills

Additive manufacturing and soft-material 3D printing, Technology transfer from R&D to manufacturing, Correlation of microstructure to functional performance, Roll-to-roll and continuous processing methods

Technologies

Casting, coating, lamination, calendaring, embossing, fiber processing, molding, thermoforming, photolithography, microfabrication

Responsibilities

Develop scalable manufacturing processes for advanced material systems, Transition material technologies from lab concepts to production-ready workflows, Improve process consistency and yield through data-driven optimization, Establish relationships between material composition and functional performance, Identify manufacturing technologies for scalable production of soft materials, Support technology transfer from R&D environments into manufacturing operations

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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