Mechatronics Engineer

Location: Rancho Dominguez, California, United States; onsite engineering role.

Base salary: $80,000–$100,000 per year, dependent on experience, knowledge, and interview performance.

Company

Motivo is a project-based engineering consultancy delivering mechanical and electrical system design and prototype builds across mobility/automotive, aerospace, robotics, and clean energy.

What you will do

• Own engineering work from ideation and feature definition through system-level design and finished prototype solutions.
• Design and develop mechanical, electrical, and software systems across varied client projects.
• Build, debug, test, and bring up hardware prototypes.
• Collaborate directly with clients, vendors, CEOs, and CTOs.
• Contribute to product strategy, technical viability, and solutions shaped by project constraints.

Requirements

• Baseline proficiency and/or professional experience in electrical, mechanical, and/or software engineering.
• Ability to contribute meaningfully in at least two engineering disciplines.
• Creativity, hard work, collaboration, and willingness to learn new skills.
• Electrical engineering experience may include PCB and electronic systems design, wire harnesses, debugging, bench testing, soldering, firmware development, C/C++, controls, test scripting, and version control.
• Mechanical engineering experience may include mechanism planning, modeling, verification, prototyping, fabrication, testing, and static, dynamic, or thermal analysis.
• Software engineering experience may include maintainable code for embedded processors, PLCs, computer systems, mobile devices, local computers, or web servers; API development; database management; and modeling physical systems in mathematics and code.

Culture & Benefits

• Monday–Thursday 4/10 work week.
• High-quality insurance and generous vacation time.
• 401(k) matching.
• Profit-sharing bonuses tied to overall company performance.
• Transparent company financials and opportunities to work on varied, challenging projects.