Rhoda AI
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Mountain View · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 69 days ago
Supply ChainCATIAFEAGD&TRoboticsMechanical DesignHardware DesignResearchOrganizational Skills
About the role
- We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.
- Robots are high performance multiaxial kinematic systems where heavy-duty structural integrity meets sub millimeter precision.
Responsibilities
- End-to-End Ownership: Manage the product lifecycle from initial concept and design studio interaction to end-of-life, ensuring feasibility, sustainability, and craftsmanship.
- Systems & Tolerance Management: Define design criteria and lead engineering studies for subsystem compatibility. Perform dimensional stack-up analysis for critical-to-function and aesthetic interfaces.
- Detailed Engineering & DfM: Design complex B-side features (ribbing, bosses, clip towers, hooks) that support performance without compromising A-side aesthetics. Develop robust attachment strategies, including joining features (e.g., snaps, hooks, welds).
- Validation & Prototyping: Coordinate cladding prototype builds, evaluate assembly feasibility during slow builds, and validate components against requirements.
- Simulation & Failure Avoidance: Interpret FEA analysis (e.g., structural, Moldflow) to iterate designs. Think at a systems level and apply a failure mode avoidance mentality to ensure long-term reliability.
- Supplier & Cross-Functional Interaction: Partner with Supply Chain and Tier 1/2 suppliers for RFQs and technical feasibility reviews
- troubleshoot integration issues during build phases.
- Technical "Superpower": Deep Knowledge in thin-walled component design and/or high-performance composites (fiber-resin systems).
- Supplier & Cross-Functional Interaction: Partner with Supply Chain and Tier 1/2 suppliers for RFQs and technical feasibility reviews; troubleshoot integration issues during build phases.
- Soft Goods Experience: Experience integrating textiles, artificial leather, elastomers, or cellular structures into designs.
Requirements
- In this role, you are the CEO of your components.
- While you must be a generalist capable of solving any hardware challenge, your superpower for this role must be thin-walled component design and industrialization from concept to mass production.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
- Deep knowledge of injection molding, RIM, vacuum forming, or thermoforming.
- Familiarity with polymer surface finishes (painting, plating, etc.) or integration of vehicle interior lighting.
- Core Fundamentals: Proficiency in design integration to balance material selection, geometry, and structural trade-offs informed by product use cases and functional/engineering requirements.
- Engineering Tools: Ability to define datum strategies and tolerances from concept through to Class-A maturation with a deep understanding of GD&T as a driver.
- Proficiency in CATIA (or equivalent) with the ability to communicate ideas through sections and CAD studies to progress development to production.
Nice to have
- Produce high-fidelity 3D CAD models (CATIA preferred) and 2D engineering drawings with comprehensive GD&T and datum strategies.
- Technical Documentation: Produce high-fidelity 3D CAD models (CATIA preferred) and 2D engineering drawings with comprehensive GD&T and datum strategies.
Skills
- The "Owner"
Benefits
- Bonus Points (The "Plus" List)
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
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