Medra
Mechanical Engineer
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 202 days ago
RoboticsMechanical DesignElectrical EngineeringControlsResearch
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About the role
- We are looking for a Mechanical Engineer to help make our vision a reality.
- You will be responsible for designing, testing and implementing the hardware that our robots need to fully automate customer protocols.
- A love for operating in an experimental and fast paced environment is a must.
Responsibilities
- Analyze, test, validate and iterate on mechanical systems
- Create detailed designs in CAD and well-specified, accurate drawings
- Design, fabricate, test and iterate on hardware prototypes
- Develop robotic solutions to manipulate and control biology tools designed for humans
- Passion for the gritty details of part design, material selection, and manufacturing techniques
- Experience designing, building, testing, and scaling hardware
- Experience managing PLM/document control systems
Requirements
- Experience with mechanical engineering tools and best practices in production to design components, produce drawings, and build assemblies
- Experience with robotics in a laboratory or manufacturing environment
- Knowledge of robotics, motion control, camera, force/torque sensors
- Experience or familiarity with robot arm manipulators
Skills
- Strong mechanical intuition and hardware debugging and assembly skills
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Relocation benefits
- A willingness to wear many hats / a flexible attitude towards responsibilities and scope
Company info
- We're a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers and scientists from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We're collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting!
- As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics - plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other.
- Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don't mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.
- At Medra, our mission is to use AI, robotics, and biology to accelerate life science research, with the ultimate goal of eradicating disease.
- We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our
- Physical AI Scientist platform:
- 🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity.
- 🧪 Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously.
- This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things.
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