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Salary: USD 115,000 - 150,000 / annual
Mach Industries, founded in 2023, is a rapidly growing defense technology company with ~350 employees developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. The company operates with startup agility while focusing on scalable, decentralized defense systems for the US and its allies.
You will join a small, high-ownership mechatronics and robotics team in San Francisco, operating as a startup within Mach. This role offers end-to-end mechanical systems development from ideation through deployment, with significant technical agency and cross-functional influence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Anticipate and solve challenges in actuation, kinematics, sensor integration, and embedded controls
- Make early technical and design decisions, from part selection through manufacturability tradeoffs
- Contribute to test plans, technical documentation, and engineering reviews
- Validate designs and iterate hardware based on performance feedback
- Build proof-of-concept designs, run experiments, and communicate findings to the team
- Lead technical reviews and influence cross-functional teams on design decisions
You will work on complex mechanical integration challenges, bridging theory and practical engineering to deliver products that scale from prototype to production.
Requirements:
- Foundational understanding of mechatronics, mechanism design, kinematics, and dynamics
- Demonstrated hands-on experience turning ideas into hardware
- Proven ability to tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems and create workable designs with minimal oversight
- Intrinsic curiosity about hard problems and motivation to learn unfamiliar systems
- Ability to lead reviews, influence cross-functional teams, and clearly communicate risks and solutions
- Experience making design decisions around 3D CAD, 2D drawings, material selection, and manufacturability
Preferred Qualifications:
- BA degree or equivalent practical experience in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, robotics, physics, or mathematics
- Experience with rapid fabrication, tolerance analysis, and mechanical simulation
- Ability to collaborate across disciplines and evaluate system-level tradeoffs
- Understanding of high-volume manufacturing processes (injection molding, die casting, stamping, machining, bonding)
- Proven record of mechanically integrating electronics (sensors, PCBs, antennas, batteries) in complex assemblies
- 3+ years of experience taking hardware products from concept to production with a portfolio of shipped mechanical designs
Note: This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws (EAR and ITAR). Employment may be conditioned on authorization to receive controlled software or technology without requiring an export license. Mach participates in E-Verify.
