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Applied Intuition is building a robot learning platform (Dana) that provides the data infrastructure and training intelligence for industrial autonomy. The robotics team delivers robot autonomy on customer lines, training, evaluating, and deploying policies on real robots performing real industrial tasks.
As a Hardware Engineer in Mechatronics, you will transform commercially available robots into reliable systems for industrial autonomy and robot learning. This role focuses on integrating and improving existing platforms rather than designing new robots from scratch. You will work hands-on with hardware from CAD through fabrication, troubleshooting, and deployment, seeing your work reach customers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and fabricate camera and gripper mounts, adapters, fixtures, end-effector interfaces, and compute enclosures that are rigid, serviceable, and reproducible
- Integrate arms, mobile bases, lift mechanisms, sensors, compute, power distribution, and cable harnesses into working robot systems with clear interface and load requirements
- Take retrofit kits from requirements and CAD through supplier coordination, assembly, validation, bills of materials, and installation documentation
- Collaborate with safety specialists on cell safeguarding, including guarding, emergency stops, interlocks, and documented checks
- Diagnose mechanical and electrical faults, repair and recommission hardware, and distinguish physical failures from software and integration issues
- Maintain the lab with calibration fixtures, preventive maintenance, spares, configuration records, and clear operating and troubleshooting procedures
- Convert recurring prototype and teleoperation rig requests into reusable, documented hardware
Applied Intuition is a $15 billion Series A company founded in 2017, headquartered in Sunnyvale with global offices. The company powers physical AI for automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture industries. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers and the US military trust Applied Intuition's solutions.
The company operates in-office with an expectation that full-time employees work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week, with flexibility for occasional remote work and schedule adjustments.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Demonstrated design, assembly, and deployment of mechatronic or robotic hardware that has operated reliably outside a CAD model or bench test
- Strong CAD skills and hands-on experience with rapid prototyping, machining or fabrication vendors, mechanical assembly, and design iteration
- Practical understanding of loads, stiffness, tolerances, fasteners, cable routing, and tradeoffs in mounting sensors and actuators
- Experience with low-voltage power, connectors, harnesses, and electrical troubleshooting using multimeter and oscilloscope
- Experience writing test procedures, bills of materials, assembly instructions, and maintenance documentation for physical systems
- Careful judgment around robot hazards and comfort working across mechanical, electrical, controls, and software boundaries
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience integrating industrial arms, mobile manipulators, force and torque sensors, grippers, or dexterous hands
- Experience with robot-cell safeguarding, safety-rated components, or machinery risk assessment
- Experience designing teleoperation devices, camera calibration fixtures, or data collection hardware
- Familiarity with Python, ROS 2, or CAD-to-URDF workflows
