Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Company Overview

Each year, 2.5 trillion hours are spent on household chores. At Matic, we’re on a mission to recapture that lost time, and we’re doing it by revolutionizing home robotics.

Our first product, also called Matic, is a Wall-E-esque floor cleaning robot. We've built what amounts to "full self-driving in the home” with real-time 3D mapping, adaptive path-tracking, and a precise semantic understanding of the home. Our breakthroughs in spatial AI allow Matic to work reliably in real homes, using only RGB cameras and neural networks running on-device.

What happens in the home, stays in the home. Our robots are private by design, with all data processing performed by the robot itself, not in the cloud.

Before the iPhone, consumers adopted several distinct devices; cell phones, PDAs, and portable music players each served a particular need. We believe in a similar progression for home robotics, starting with single-purpose robots and building iteratively toward more complex capabilities over time.

Matic is a tight-knit and collaborative team, singularly focused on building products our customers will cherish. We're ultra-hardworking people committed to solving tough problems that save precious time and energy.

As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, you’ll lead the design of critical subassemblies of our products and work closely with team members from our hardware, software, and product teams to help us realize our vision of full home autonomy.

If you’re passionate about great design and obsessed with getting the details right, we’d love to talk to you about how you can work with us to pioneer innovations in the home robotics space.

• Own a critical subsystem end to end: requirements, architecture, detailed design, validation, tooling, and ramp
• Turn a vague product goal into a set of engineering requirements and defend the ones that matter when they conflict
• Make and own tradeoffs across cost, mass, acoustics, serviceability, manufacturability, and reliability, and explain the reasoning to people outside your discipline
• Own the tolerance budget for the full assembly, not just individual stacks
• Decide where to spend analysis, where to spend test, and where to just build it
• Drive suppliers from tooling kickoff through T1 and T2 to a qualified process, and hold the line on quality when the schedule pushes back
• Own the failure investigations in your area, from field returns back to root cause and corrective action
• Raise the technical level of the engineers around you through design reviews, mentorship, and the standard you set on your own drawings

Evidence of independent technical judgment at subsystem scale:

• A subsystem you owned that shipped in volume, where you can walk through the architecture decisions, what you rejected, and what you got wrong
• You've been through at least one full production ramp and can talk about what broke between T1 and mass production
• Deep command of high volume manufacturing, particularly injection molding, at the level of tool design conversations with a supplier
• You've built a tolerance and variation strategy for an assembly, including how you decided what to control and what to leave open
• Test design judgment: you've built accelerated test plans that correlated to field data, and you know when an acceleration model does not apply
• You've made a call under uncertainty, been wrong, caught it, and fixed it. We will ask about this
• You are still hands-on. Tell us the last thing you personally built, measured, or debugged yourself rather than delegating
• You've owned something outside your discipline because the company needed it done and you were the one available
• You make other engineers better without needing a title to do it
• Comfort in a fast-paced startup where you are the escalation point, not the escalator

A technical degree in mechanical engineering or related field. Most people who can do this job have 5+ years of professional design experience on shipping high volume products, but we hire on demonstrated capability. If you're earlier in your career and can show the above.

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