Senior Mechanical Engineer

Requirements

• Onsite position is located at our Wilmington, MA headquarters, requiring five (5) days per week onsite. Only local candidates will be considered
• BSME or MSME with at least 7+ years of relevant industry experience
• Academic or hands‑on experience in robotics, mechanical, or electromechanical design
• Familiarity with design for manufacturability (machined parts, sheet metal, castings, thermoplastics)
• Ability to design and execute experiments to validate robot performance
• Hands‑on prototyping experience (machining, 3D printing, rapid iteration methods)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of GD&T and engineering drawing standards
• Experience generating RFQs and collaborating with suppliers
• Exposure to risk analysis methods (e.g., What‑if analysis, FMEA)
• Collaborative, hands‑on team player mindset
• Comfortable with occasional customer interaction

• Locus Robotics is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to support the development of our autonomous mobile robots and related accessories
• This role sits within the Hardware R&D group and focuses on design, analysis, and cross‑functional collaboration to bring scalable, cost‑effective hardware solutions to production
• Take the inputs from both internal and external customers and generate sub‑system requirements for new and existing robots
• Design, model, and detail draft elements of autonomous mobile robots and their supporting accessories using Solid Works
• Utilize a set of requirements to design elegant solutions both quickly and carefully, independently preempting issues of manufacturability and future maintenance
• Evaluate designs for strength, stiffness and long life, including fatigue analysis of static components and life estimation for bearings or gears
• Design components and systems that reduce assembly effort; work with the operations team to verify these approaches and incorporate their feedback
• Design individual components that can be manufactured in high volume at low cost while meeting functional requirements
• Proactively engage with suppliers to determine competitive manufacturing strategies for new and existing designs
• Build and test prototype and pre‑production robots and sub‑assemblies
• Work with manufacturing and procurement teams inside Locus Robotics to meet development and production timelines
• Develop test plans for verification and validation of designs
• Accurately document work and present this work to peers, customers, and company leadership