About the Role
Join us as a Mechanical Engineering Intern on a fast-moving team of five. Here, you’ll build things that actually get deployed. You’ll own projects across structural design, thermal performance, and packaging for our next-generation robotic sensor kits. Be ready to work through the full hardware development cycle: concept CAD, rapid prototyping, FEA, DFM iteration, supplier coordination, assembly, and field validation in live farm environment.
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize new mechanical architectures for robotic systems in harsh environments
- Lead design reviews internally and externally with suppliers and partners
- Develop enclosure systems for thermal management, vibration resistance, and weather protection
- Perform tolerance analysis and DFM reviews with manufacturing partners
- Own prototype builds and field-test validation
- Collaborate closely with perception, robotics, and electrical teams to optimize full-system integration
Requirements
- Track record of hands-on personal projects (outside the classroom) demonstrating hardware skills
- Demonstrated understanding of structural analysis and failure modes of complex mechanical systems
- Proficiency in CAD software and FEA modeling
- Solid understanding of GD&T
- Comfortable making first-principles engineering trade-offs, even with partial information
- Experience integrating sensors, compute, and/or power systems into physical assemblies
- Comfortable building, assembling, and debugging physical hardware
Skills
- CAD software
- FEA modeling
- GD&T
- Structural analysis
- Thermal performance
- Packaging
- Hardware development cycle
- Concept CAD
- Rapid prototyping
- DFM iteration
- Supplier coordination
- Assembly
- Field validation
- Sensor integration
- Compute integration
- Power systems integration
Work Type
- full time
- intern
- co-ops
- summer
- part-time
Experience Level
- Intern
About the Company
- At moss, we build robots that scan trees! But at our core, we’re solving a much bigger problem: enabling autonomous farming.
- We’re a small team of practical engineers with a long-term vision. We focus on real, messy, on-the-ground problems today, while working toward a future where autonomous farming helps make agriculture more sustainable and accessible.
