Senior Systems Engineer (Chassis)

Join our team as a Senior Systems Engineer, where you will drive the integration, development, and lifecycle of our next-generation humanoid robot chassis. This high-impact role requires strong experience in robotics systems design, integrating complex structural and mechanical systems, and the ability to turn technical concepts into pragmatic execution. You will collaborate cross-functionally, develop system requirements, and ensure that our chassis meets performance, reliability, safety, and manufacturability targets.

Hearing and speech to communicate

Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain system level requirements and specifications for the robot chassis and structural subsystems, and contribute to the implementation of system architecture.
• Collaborate on interface definitions between chassis and structural hardware and higher level actuation, power, compute, and control systems, and drive system integration efforts across mechanical structure, power distribution, wiring and harness, and thermal subsystems.
• Develop verification and validation (V&V) plans and test protocols, including structural load testing, fatigue and life testing, thermal characterization, and vibration and shock testing.
• This position requires strong experience in robotics systems design, integrating complex structural and mechanical systems, and the ability to turn technical concepts into pragmatic execution
• Experience bringing robotic and mechatronic hardware from prototype to production, including tolerance stack up and manufacturing process selection
• Background in systems engineering and reliability engineering, including logging, telemetry, structural health monitoring, and automated test frameworks
• Strong experience designing and integrating complex structural, mechanical, and electrical systems for real time, dynamic robotics applications
• Experience leveraging industrial design and safety standards for robotic requirement generation, design, system integration, and test

Requirements

• Strong understanding of structural mechanics (FEA, stress and fatigue analysis), materials selection (metals, composites, additive manufacturing), GD&T, and DFM and DFA for production hardware
• Familiarity with requirements management and traceability tools and model-based systems engineering practices
• Knowledge of environmental sealing and ingress protection, vibration and shock qualification, and thermal management for embedded electronics within a structural enclosure
• Solid grasp of robotics architecture patterns, kinematics, dynamics, and mass and inertia budgeting for legged and wheeled mobile platforms
• Adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity in an R&D focused environment
• Collaborative, communicative, and motivated by working within a tight knit team of expert engineers
• Experience with actuator, gearbox, and drivetrain integration into a structural chassis, including mounting, load transfer, and alignment and tolerancing

Excellent cross functional communication skills

• Experience with wiring harness design and routing, cable management, and EMI and thermal considerations within a dense electromechanical chassis
• Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience contributing to the system-level architecture and integration of robotic or mechatronic products
• 6+ years of experience in complex robotics systems or autonomous systems
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering. Master’s and / or PhD degree in engineering preferred
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer