Medra
Mechanical Engineer - Winter 2026 Internship
San Francisco · Intern · Internship
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About the role
- Paid Winter 2026 Internship (Jan. - Apr., dates flexible).
- Candidates must work full-time, in-person at our San Francisco office located in the Mission.
- 🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity.
Responsibilities
- Intern in our Mechanical Engineering team, focusing on building the tools used across our product to accelerate science
- Passion for the gritty details of part design, material selection, and manufacturing techniques
- Experience designing, building, testing, and scaling hardware
- 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.
Requirements
- Experience with mechanical engineering tools and best practices in production to design components, produce drawings, and build assemblies
Nice to have
- Knowledge of robotics, motion control, camera, force/torque sensors
- Experience or familiarity with robot arm manipulators
- Experience with robotics in a laboratory or manufacturing environment
- Experience writing code for robotics systems
- We value diversity at Medra and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech.
- If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
- As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics - plus other topics like race cars or cooking.
Skills
- Strong mechanical intuition and hardware debugging and assembly skills
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 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.
- A hacker's mindset - getting quickly to a good-enough solution
- Are hands-on and willing to cross discipline boundaries to solve a problem
- Know your way around rapid prototyping technology
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