Mechanical Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Menlo Park, California, United States; on-site

Salary: $120,000–$200,000 per annum, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops private-by-design home robots, including a floor-cleaning robot using real-time 3D mapping, adaptive path tracking, semantic home understanding, RGB cameras, and on-device neural networks.

What you will do

• Design mechanical parts and sub-assemblies and carry them from concept through mass production.
• Build prototypes, perform component-level performance and durability testing, and iterate on designs.
• Create accelerated test plans to predict field behavior and investigate production or field failures.
• Release production-ready 2D drawings with GD&T and complete tolerance stack-ups.
• Work with vendors and contract manufacturers on DFM feedback, tooling reviews, and first article inspection.
• Collaborate with electrical, firmware, software, and industrial design engineers to balance the complete robot system.

Requirements

• Personal experience designing parts that are currently in production.
• Practical expertise in at least one high-volume process: injection molding, die casting, stamping, or metal injection molding.
• Experience with tolerance stack-ups, datum schemes, and GD&T on owned assemblies and drawings.
• Deep SolidWorks proficiency, plus experience with PDM/PLM, ECOs, and quality systems.
• Experience using FEA to support engineering decisions and understanding model limitations.
• Technical degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent; around 2+ years of professional design experience is typical.

Nice to have

• Experience debugging field failures from failure mode to the underlying design decision.
• Experience in a fast-paced hardware startup or home robotics environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on ownership from initial concept through production and field failures.
• Work includes prototyping, reliability testing, supplier coordination, documentation, and production support.
• Collaborative environment with engineers expected to help across subsystem and lab issues.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Access to a 401(k) plan and discretionary equity program.