Senior Mechanical Engineer

At Cargo, we’re backed by some of the best robotics investors in the Valley to transform a massive legacy industry and we’re more than doubling our engineering team to satisfy overwhelming customer demand. If you’re an exceptional mechanical engineer with a passion for robotics, we want to talk to you. See the JD and instructions on how to get in touch with us below.

Cargo Robotics is creating the logistics infrastructure of the next 100 years by automating the entire delivery chain with containerized physical AI, starting at the delivery van.

Every day, millions of delivery drivers spend hours loading, organizing, and searching for packages in their vehicles. It's physically brutal, wildly inefficient, and one of the most important unsolved problems in global logistics. Our founders worked undercover at UPS and Fed Ex before starting Cargo, and their experience living these problems firsthand shapes everything we build.

Our first product is the X1 Robotic Cargo Bay, which turns every delivery vehicle into a robotic warehouse. This is the first step to build fast, flawless, and fully automated logistics networks of the future.

We’re backed by leading robotics investors and building alongside teammates from Tesla, NASA JPL, Lockheed Martin, Saildrone, Machina Labs, Roam Robotics, Stanford AI Lab, Stanford, Georgia Tech, and Caltech. We are doubling our engineering team and accelerating to meet overwhelming demand from some of the world’s largest logistics companies.

We're looking for a versatile Senior Mechanical Engineer who loves building real hardware and takes ownership of their work from concept to customer deployment. You’ll play a central role on our hardware team developing key mechanical subsystems from concept through prototype and test through manufacturing, deployment, and production scale up. We are a small team, and every engineer owns significant portions of the product.

We’re also a user and product-centric company, so expect to deliver some actual parcels in your first week at work!

Get ready, there’s lots to build :)

Develop core mechanical subsystems from concept through production: including end effectors, transmissions, actuated structures, and user-facing mechanical systems

Collaborate with electrical, software, controls, manufacturing, and operations

Codify promising designs with detailed engineering analysis, develop functional requirements and test plans, anticipate and eliminate failure modes before they occur

Refine designs to increase reliability while cutting cost and weight.

Drive transition to production: lead pilot builds, develop production-level manufacturing and assembly documentation, visit and qualify international suppliers

Help recruit, mentor, and manage as we scale up the team

Work hard and ship fast modeling ownership, integrity, hands-on building, and a production mindset

Directly support and debug our pilots and customer deployments in the US and abroad, and tackle any and all mechanical and production issues on the way to 10’s, 100’s and 1000’s of X1 units operating continuously

• Biased toward action: take initiative and get stuff done
• Driven and gritty: can take punches and keep on going
• A quick study: learn fast and teach those around you
• Calm in chaos: keep your composure and work through the hurricane
• Self-aware and low ego: take and give feedback with grace

• BS or higher in ME, 5+ years experience developing complex mechanical systems
• At least one cycle owning a complex mechanical system from prototype to volume production
• Expert-level CAD (Solid Works preferred)
• Strong mechanical intuition and hands-on build skills (machine and wood tools, etc.)
• Significant analytical depth: statics, dynamics, FEA, tolerance analysis, fatigue, vibration
• DFM/DFA, BOM ownership, production documentation, and manufacturing processes
• Experience driving transition from prototype to production including FMEA, DFM/A, BOMs, drawings, test and qualification procedures
• Experience diagnosing real-world failures and working with manufacturers to redesign systems for increased reliability, serviceability, and…