Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Tailor your resume to this Mechanical Design Engineer, Actuators role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Weave Robotics's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this Mechanical Design Engineer, Actuators role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Weave Robotics's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Mechanical Design Engineer, Actuators posting at Weave Robotics — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Mechanical Design Engineer, Actuators posting at Weave Robotics — free, in seconds.
About the Role
This role owns the mechanical heart of the actuator program, focusing on transmissions, structures, and thermal design to determine the strength, precision, quietness, and durability of robot joints.
Responsibilities
- Design planetary, harmonic, and cycloidal transmission stages, focusing on torque density, stiffness, backlash, efficiency, and noise.
- Collaborate with Mechanical and Hardware teams on motor integration, including magnetic and thermal interactions and long-term encoder calibration.
- Design actuator packages, considering structural integrity, bearings, sealing, and thermal/load paths.
- Define and execute life testing protocols, including cycle tests, load spectra analysis, teardown analysis, and setting design margins.
- Design for in-house subassembly, calibration, and testing of actuators.
- Drive the actuator performance envelope in collaboration with controls, firmware, and mechanical teams.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience designing actuators or precision transmissions, or equivalent research experience, for products that have shipped.
- In-depth knowledge of geartrain design, material and part selection, manufacturing methods, and Design for Manufacturability (DFM).
- Strong mechanical fundamentals including bearings and preload, shaft and housing design, tolerance stack-ups, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), fatigue, and thermal design.
- Proficiency in CAD software (e.g., SolidWorks), FEA with sound judgment, and performing hand calculations.
- Experience designing, instrumenting, and iterating on designs based on life test results and teardown analysis.
Skills
- Planetary gear design
- Harmonic drive design
- Cycloidal drive design
- Torque density analysis
- Stiffness analysis
- Backlash analysis
- Efficiency analysis
- Noise analysis
- Motor integration
- Rotor/stator integration
- Magnetic interaction analysis
- Thermal interaction analysis
- Structural design
- Bearing design
- Preload calculation
- Sealing design
- Life testing
- Cycle testing
- Load spectra analysis
- Teardown analysis
- Design for Assembly (DFA)
- Test design
- CAD (SolidWorks-class)
- FEA
- Hand calculations
- Acoustic analysis
- QDD Actuation
- EVT/DVT/PVT
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
About the Company
- Founded to build home robots that transform everyday life by enabling people to do more and reclaim time.
- Believes in shipping robots and improving them through real-world experience.
- Experiencing a stage of growth with a growing team, strong customer demand, and capital for expansion.
- Aims to bring home robotics to millions of households.