Mechanical Product Engineer

Portfolio required. Applications without one will not be reviewed.

Haus Bots designs and manufactures advanced robotics for the inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure: offshore platforms, storage tanks and steel structures in some of the harshest environments on earth.

We're a VC-backed scale-up, around 18 months into a soft launch of our flagship product with real customers, building the use cases and confidence to move into full-scale distribution. The team is small and deliberately lean, which means every engineer here has genuine influence over what gets built and how well it survives the field.

We're looking for a Mechanical Product Engineer to own the design and delivery of industrial hardware across our product range.

We operate more like a fast-moving consultancy than a conventional product company. We design, prototype quickly, test in the real world and iterate hard, rather than perfecting everything on screen before we build.

You'll own individual projects end to end. This is hands-on. You'll design, build and test, not manage from a screen.

• Own delivery. Take projects from brief to completion, managing scope, timelines and resourcing with a bias towards action.
• Design hardware that survives the field. Design mechanical assemblies and product enclosures for genuinely hostile environments: vibration, impact, water ingress, corrosion and temperature. Make the material, process and tolerance decisions that determine whether a part works on the twentieth unit as well as the first.
• Design for manufacture. Bring real DFM discipline to our hardware: selecting processes, designing for the tooling and suppliers we actually use, reducing part count and assembly time, and producing drawings and documentation a manufacturer can build from without guessing.
• Prototype, test, refine. Work iteratively. Build it, break it, learn, revise. We'd rather test early than model indefinitely.
• Support the wider team. Help our junior engineers build good habits around documentation, reasoning and process, and work with our technicians to clear the practical blockers that slow builds and tests.

• 5+ years' mechanical or product engineering experience designing physical hardware that has reached real users
• Strong mechanical design fundamentals: materials selection, tolerances and fits, fastening and joining, structural and loading considerations
• Demonstrable DFM capability. You design for how a part will actually be made, not just for how it looks in CAD
• Working knowledge of manufacturing processes and their constraints (machining, sheet metal, fabrication, moulding, additive)
• Genuine hands-on experience: design, build, test, iterate, not screen-based design alone
• Strong CAD skills and the ability to produce manufacturing-ready drawings and documentation using Solid Works.
• Track record of owning project delivery and managing timelines in a fast-paced, consultancy-style or similarly high-tempo environment
• Strong communicator who gathers information proactively and integrates quickly into a small team
• A portfolio of your hands-on design work. This is non-negotiable.

• Industrial design sensibility: an eye for form, usability and how a product is handled in the field, not just whether it functions
• Harsh-environment, outdoor or industrial equipment design (IP sealing, corrosion resistance, serviceability)
• Robotics or critical infrastructure equipment
• Production handoff, BOM ownership, supplier liaison or change control
• Experience supporting or informally guiding junior engineers

We will not consider any application that arrives without a portfolio. No portfolio, no submission. This isn't a formality. We need to see what you've actually designed and…