Gradientrobotics
Senior Mechanical Engineer
San Francisco · Senior
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About the role
- This is intentionally a deep ownership role.
- You'll touch every stage of the product, which means real ownership and room to grow quickly.
Responsibilities
- Own a core mechanical subsystem end to end: design, hand calcs, FEA, fabrication, assembly, and validation
- Own precision motion and structural design: linear stages, actuators, bearings, and drivetrains built to tight tolerances under significant loads and moments
- Drive design decisions with first-principles analysis and trade studies across materials, stiffness, precision grade, and load paths
- Leverage our in-house machine shop and technician team to get your designs manufactured quickly
- Deep competence in structural and precision design: ball screws, rack-and-pinion, bearings, kinematic constraint, and tolerance stack-ups
- Comfort with ambiguity and a strong build-and-test instinct
- Hands-on machining experience: we have great technicians, but sometimes we make our own parts too
- You'll own a core mechanical subsystem end to end while partnering closely with the rest of the engineering team on whatever is highest leverage at any given moment.
- the subsystems you design become the machines that scale AI infrastructure worldwide, and nothing you own gets handed off halfway.
Requirements
- 5+ years designing precision electromechanical systems that shipped or were deployed
- Track record owning subsystems end-to-end at a fast-moving hardware company (robotics, aerospace, automotive, or similar)
- Strong FEA and hand-calc fluency: you work things out on paper before you trust the sim
Nice to have
- Experience at a robotics, aerospace, or automotive company shipping precision hardware
- Experience taking a subsystem from clean-sheet concept through deployment in the field
Company info
- The datacenter buildout is the largest industrial project in human history.
- Gradient builds the autonomous robots that make it possible.
- Partnered with the world's largest AI infrastructure companies and backed by the industry's best investors, we move fast and build full-stack systems that matter.
- Integrate tightly with controls, firmware, and software at the system level so the mechanical design works as part of the whole machine
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