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About the Role
Own the mechanical design of the next generation of Moonwalkers, from first sketch and prototype through tooling and mass production. Our product is a wearable robot: motors, gearing, batteries, sensors and electronics packed into a shoe that a person stands, walks and climbs stairs on every day. The mechanical design has to be light, compact, comfortable and tough enough to survive real-world impact, water and wear. You'll work in a small team alongside electrical, firmware and gait-control engineers, and you'll move fast between CAD, the shop and the test bench.
Responsibilities
- Design mechanical systems for wearable robotic footwear, including housings, drivetrains, gearing, wheel and suspension assemblies, battery enclosures and binding/fit components.
- Package motors, sensors, PCBAs, batteries and wiring into a compact, lightweight structure.
- Work with electrical and firmware engineers on thermal, sealing, connector and cable-routing decisions.
- Build fast prototypes with 3D printing, CNC and machining.
- Assemble, test and iterate hardware hands-on in our Austin lab.
- Run tolerance stack-ups and FEA (structural, fatigue, vibration, drop/impact).
- Write and execute test plans for durability, water ingress and user-load cases, and turn results into design changes.
- Design injection-molded, die-cast and machined parts with DFM/DFA in mind.
- Release production drawings with GD&T (ASME Y14.5) and manage BOMs and engineering change orders.
- Work with vendors and contract manufacturers on tooling, first-article inspection, yield and quality issues through EVT, DVT and PVT.
- Design with safety margins, run failure analysis (DFMEA, root cause) and drive fixes from field returns and test failures.
- Keep CAD, drawings, specs and test reports clean and current so the team can build on your work.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience), with 3+ years designing hardware products that reached real users or production.
- Strong production-grade CAD skills in SolidWorks, Siemens NX, Fusion 360, Creo or CATIA, including large assemblies and surfacing.
- Ability to create engineering drawings with GD&T (ASME Y14.5) and run tolerance analysis.
- Hands-on fabrication experience with 3D printing, CNC and machining, and comfort with shop tools and test fixtures.
- Solid understanding of design for manufacturing and assembly, materials selection and common processes such as injection molding and machining.
- Working knowledge of mechanics of materials and engineering hand calculations to size parts and validate designs.
- Ownership and self-drive.
- Get things done with minimal supervision.
- Communicate clearly in writing.
- Comfortable wearing multiple hats on a small team.
- Has taken injection-molded parts from design through tooling and into mass production, including vendor and supplier management.
- FEA with ANSYS, Abaqus or SolidWorks Simulation (structural, fatigue, vibration, drop/impact), and mechanism or dynamics simulation in MATLAB/Simulink/Simscape.
- Weight and topology optimization for compact, high-load structures.
- Experience integrating motors, gearboxes, sensors, batteries and microcontrollers into electromechanical systems; ROS familiarity is a plus.
- Experience with wearables, footwear, sporting goods, micromobility or other high-volume consumer hardware.
- DFMEA, accelerated life testing, ingress protection (IP) and drop testing.
- Owned a product's mechanical design end to end at a startup or small team.
Skills
- SolidWorks
- Siemens NX
- Fusion 360
- Creo
- CATIA
- GD&T (ASME Y14.5)
- 3D printing
- CNC
- Machining
- DFM/DFA
- Injection molding
- Mechanics of materials
- FEA
- ANSYS
- Abaqus
- SolidWorks Simulation
- MATLAB/Simulink/Simscape
- ROS
- DFMEA
- Accelerated life testing
- Ingress protection (IP)
- Drop testing
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Participation in our Employee Options program
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Flexible vacation, sick time and paid holidays
About the Company
- Making the world a more walkable place through intuitive personal mobility.
- Flagship product, Moonwalkers, are the world's fastest robotic shoes, augmenting natural walking with intelligent locomotion assistance.
- Believes the path toward a more human-scale future can be reached on your own two feet.
- Covered in Time, Wired, New Atlas, CNET, Gizomodo, PCMag and many other tech press.
- A collaborative, fast-moving engineering team and a casual work environment.
- The chance to shape the future of personal mobility.