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About the Role
As the Mechanical Engineer, you will own hardware end-to-end, from early CAD concepts and detailed drawings to material choices, manufacturability, and the handoff to fabrication partners. You will take machines from first prototype to a fleet the site can rely on. This is a mid to senior level individual contributor role based at our San Francisco robotics facility, with regular field time at our GW-scale campus in West Texas.
Responsibilities
- Design the mechanical architecture of deployment machines: chassis, drivetrains, booms, manipulators, and end effectors that pick, place, and fasten multi-hundred-pound energy assets.
- Design custom mechanisms and actuation: kinematics and linkage design, motor and gearbox selection, bearing and joint design, and the tolerance stack-ups that determine whether a module lands where it should.
- Take parts from CAD through detailed drawings and GD&T, material selection, and design for manufacturing to vendor handoff.
- Engineer for the West Texas environment: heat, dust and particulate ingress, wind loading, vibration over rough terrain, and long intervals between service visits.
- Run structural and mechanical simulation (FEA, load cases, fatigue) to size structures and validate designs before cutting metal.
- Build and test prototypes hands-on: instrument them, run them to failure, and fold what you learn into the next revision.
- Own vendor relationships and production planning, and drive machines from one-off prototype to a repeatable fleet build.
Requirements
- 4+ years of mechanical design experience on robotic or electromechanical systems
- Track record taking machines from CAD to working, field-deployed hardware in a rapid-iteration environment such as robotics, industrial automation, construction equipment, drones, defense, or an elite hardware startup.
- Deep CAD and 3D modeling proficiency (Solidworks or similar), with fluency in GD&T and tolerance analysis.
- Strong mechanism and actuation design: kinematics, linkages, gearing, motor sizing, joint and bearing design.
- Materials, fabrication, and DFM expertise across steel, aluminum, and machined and fabricated parts.
- High ownership, bias for speed, and comfort with ambiguity.
Skills
- Mechanical design
- Robotic systems
- Electromechanical systems
- CAD
- 3D modeling
- Solidworks
- GD&T
- Tolerance analysis
- Mechanism design
- Actuation design
- Kinematics
- Linkages
- Gearing
- Motor sizing
- Joint design
- Bearing design
- Materials expertise
- Fabrication expertise
- DFM
- Steel
- Aluminum
- Machined parts
- Fabricated parts
- Heavy equipment design
- Construction machinery design
- Agricultural machinery design
- Mining machinery design
- Hydraulics
- Pneumatics
- Sealing
- Ingress protection
- Thermal design
Location
- San Francisco
- West Texas
Work Type
- Onsite
- Field time
Experience Level
- Mid to senior level
Benefits
- Up to $15K relocation bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- $1K monthly stipend for meals
About the Company
- TAR is both a hardware and software company, we are building out massive, critical, physical infrastructure.
- TAR is working directly with one of the largest compute providers to scale and deploy 5GWs by 2028.
- We operate on High ownership, High Agency. Own project end-to-end.
- Great people don’t need to be managed.
- Speed. We achieve great things on incredible timelines. We push ourselves to go faster.
- First principles. No ego. No hierarchy. Challenge every assumption.
- Passion. Solving the energy problem is one of the largest challenges that faces the world now and in the future.