Rhoda AI
Associate Mechanical Engineer
Mountain View
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
SolidWorksCATIAFusion 360FEAStructural AnalysisGD&TRoboticsMechanical DesignHardware DesignResearchMentoring
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.
- The mono leg carries the full weight and dynamic loads of the upper robot through a compact package built around structural cast parts and an actuator developed by our dedicated actuation team.
Responsibilities
- Design and iterate on the packaging of the leg actuator - mounting hardware, spacers, alignment features, and cable exits - to interface requirements defined by senior engineers and the actuation team
- Develop the design of the leg's structural cast parts under supervision: building CAD geometry for stiffness and mass efficiency, applying draft and wall-thickness rules, and incorporating vendor feedback on castability
- Implement the thermal design of the leg - conduction paths, thermal interface materials, and heat-sinking features - and run thermal tests to validate performance against limits set by the actuation and electrical teams
- Create and maintain CAD models, drawings, tolerance stacks, and BOMs to support design reviews and manufacturing handoffs
- Build test setups and prototypes, run structural, thermal, and durability tests, collect data, and document results
- Collaborate with the mobile base, torso, actuation, and electrical teams to keep your designs aligned with full-system requirements
- Solid grasp of mechanics fundamentals - statics, stress, stiffness, and heat transfer - and the instinct to sanity-check designs with quick hand calculations
- Familiarity with common manufacturing processes - machining, casting, sheet metal, 3D printing - and how they inform design decisions
- We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots.
- Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design.
Requirements
- 0-2 years of experience in mechanical design or hardware engineering (internships, co-ops, and serious project teams count)
- Proficiency with CAD software (Catia, SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Onshape, or similar) for part and assembly design
- Comfort working hands-on with hardware: assembling components, running tests, and troubleshooting physical systems
Nice to have
- Strong attention to detail and ability to follow and contribute to engineering documentation practices
- Coursework or project experience with cast, molded, or otherwise tooled parts - anything where you had to design for a manufacturing process
- Exposure to FEA (structural or thermal) and correlating simple analyses to physical parts
- Experience on a robotics competition or engineering project team (FIRST, Formula SAE, Baja, university robotics)
- Hands-on experience with FDM or SLA 3D printing for functional prototypes
- Familiarity with GD&T and engineering drawing standards
Company info
- At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots.
- We're looking for an entry-level Mechanical Engineer to work on the mono leg of our humanoid robot platform - the single load-bearing structure connecting the mobile base to the torso.
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