Mechatronics Engineer, Robotics Hardware

Location: Irvine, California, United States. On-site work is required.

Company

hirify.global develops risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI systems for embodied intelligence and autonomous robotics.

What you will do

• Design mechanical CAD packaging, mounts, enclosures, and structural solutions for compute and perception hardware on large wheeled platforms.
• Design PCBs for power regulation, power distribution, and wired communication systems.
• Integrate cameras, LiDAR, GPS, IMU, onboard computers, wiring, thermal paths, and ingress-protection solutions.
• Design and integrate motors, drives, actuators, feedback systems, and platform-level control interfaces.
• Coordinate fabrication, hands-on assembly, hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
• Support field deployments, diagnose real-world failures, and collaborate with mechanical, electrical, embedded, sensor, and autonomy engineers on iterative improvements.

Requirements

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
• Experience with SolidWorks or an equivalent mechanical CAD platform for enclosures, mounts, and structural packaging.
• Experience with PCB schematic and layout tools such as KiCad or Altium, especially for power and communication systems.
• Hands-on experience with motors, actuators, drives, feedback control, hardware fabrication, assembly, and integration.
• Ability to debug failures across mechanical, electrical, and firmware boundaries using oscilloscopes, power monitors, logs, and analyzers.
• Willingness to support hardware in rugged outdoor field environments and iterate designs based on real-world failures.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling systems from prototype to large-scale production.
• Experience with deployed robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, ruggedized robots, robotic arms, or multi-robot systems.
• Background in motor control, servo systems, robotic manipulation, or locomotion hardware.
• Fluency across mechanical, electrical, software, and systems-level robotics engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a small, fast-moving hardware team focused on capability, reliability, and scalability.
• Build systems that are fabricated, tested on real hardware, and deployed in challenging field environments.
• Contribute across the full robotics hardware lifecycle, from research and design through production and field support.
• Collaborate closely with senior engineers across mechanical, electrical, embedded, sensor, and autonomy disciplines.