Mechanical Engineer I (Robotics)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States; on-site work with occasional travel of 5% or less

Company

Carnegie Robotics designs and manufactures rugged robotics systems and components for defense, agriculture, mining, industrial, and off-road autonomy applications.

What you will do

• Perform engineering work across the product lifecycle, from concept development through fielded-product support.
• Develop customer and product requirements, concept designs, feasibility studies, and proposal input for robotics applications.
• Model parts and assemblies in CAD and design mechanisms, sensors, and components with multiple degrees of freedom.
• Analyze mechanical risks and failures using hand calculations, spreadsheets, Python scripts, FEA, and CFD.
• Create manufacturing drawings using GD&T, support design-for-manufacturability improvements, and collaborate with suppliers.
• Prototype, test, and transition robotic products to validated production builds while collaborating with software, electrical, systems, and production engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, preferably mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related field.
• Product design experience integrating mechanisms and electronics, including collaboration with software and electrical engineers.
• Strong CAD skills; SolidWorks is preferred.
• Experience with engineering analysis, including bearing life, motor loads, material selection, and static and dynamic load cases.
• Understanding of mechanisms and tradeoffs among cost, weight, reliability, lead time, and complexity; experience with COTS trade studies and make-versus-buy decisions.
• Authorization to work for any US employer is required; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience with passive thermal design and analysis, environmental sealing, FEA, custom gear trains, and production-level design and testing.
• Familiarity with GD&T drawings, BOM management, and releasing products to production.
• Working knowledge of at least one programming language.
• Personal experience building and testing engineering projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Interdisciplinary work across office, test facilities, production, and vehicle assembly spaces.
• UPMC health coverage with FSA or HSA options.
• Dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Fidelity 401(k) plan with employer match.
• 31 days of PTO including holidays, catered lunch, and comp time for company travel.