Senior Mechanical Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States; onsite collaboration at AIM offices, labs, and proving grounds. Occasional travel to production sites, customer deployments, and jobsites across the U.S. and internationally is required.

Salary: $150,000–$200,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous heavy equipment by integrating software, hardware, robotics, and mission-critical infrastructure for harsh real-world environments.

What you will do

• Own mechanical subsystems including sensor suites, compute enclosures, LiDAR and camera mounts, structural brackets, safety housings, and environmental protection systems.
• Translate customer needs and product requirements into manufacturable, field-serviceable mechanical architectures across machine platforms.
• Create production-ready CAD, detailed drawings, tolerances, inspection plans, and manufacturing documentation using SolidWorks, OnShape, or similar tools.
• Perform mechanical analysis and FEA covering structural, fatigue, vibration, shock, thermal, and material-selection considerations.
• Prototype, test, and validate designs through ingress, vibration, shock, thermal, fit, field, and failure-analysis activities.
• Collaborate with electrical, software, autonomy, systems, deployment, TPM, vendor, fabricator, and OEM partners while improving manufacturability, yield, serviceability, and reliability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of mechanical engineering and product development experience.
• Strong fundamentals in machine design, structural analysis, thermal analysis, and modeling.
• Proficiency with CAD tools such as SolidWorks, OnShape, or similar, plus component-level FEA and mechanical simulation.
• Hands-on experience with prototyping, bench and field testing, environmental testing, and failure analysis.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and occasionally travel to production sites and customer deployments.

Nice to have

• Experience designing ruggedized systems for construction, mining, agriculture, or heavy equipment.
• Experience with welded structures, steel mounting systems, fabrication-driven assemblies, environmental sealing, thermal management, vibration and shock mitigation, or fatigue engineering.
• Working knowledge of electrical systems, sensors, compute integration, electromechanical assemblies, welding, machining, and metal fabrication.

Culture & Benefits

• Strong onsite collaboration across offices, labs, and proving grounds.
• Opportunity to build autonomy and heavy-equipment robotics products for global deployments.
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, gourmet food, and other perks.
• High ownership, rapid growth, technical autonomy, and a significant voice in company direction.
• Travel opportunities to customer jobsites across the U.S., Australia, Europe, Africa, South America, and other regions.