Motor Test & Industrialization Engineer

Enact; Zürich; On-site; CHF 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Relocation assistance

Equity participation

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Enact in Zürich is seeking a hands-on Engineer to drive next-gen robotic actuators from prototyping to manufacturing, turning real-world insights into the next evolution of actuation. You will design test setups, build rigs, and contribute to fast iteration on hardware.

You will own motor quality and reliability, perform FMEA and life/thermal testing, investigate failures, and define acceptance criteria and KPIs to gate every unit shipped.

Qualifications

• Degree (BSc/MSc) in mechanical, mechatronic, or electrical engineering/equivalent hands-on experience.
• Experience in testing, characterization, or quality and reliability engineering.
• Hands-on design and build of test rigs: torque sensors and load cells, dynamometers, encoders, thermocouples etc.
• Fluency with measurement uncertainty and setup calibration
• A rigorous, data-driven approach to root-cause analysis and improving both product and process.
• Strong CAD skills for fixtures and test hardware.
• Language: We are an international team, fluency in English is a must have.

Responsibilities

• Drive our next-gen robotic actuators from prototyping to manufacturing and characterization.
• Design and build actuator test setups and rigs; characterize motor performance.
• Own motor quality and reliability: FMEA, and life and thermal-cycle testing.
• Investigate failures and performance drift; drive corrective actions in design and production.
• Run systematic data collection and technical reporting; define acceptance criteria and KPIs.

Skills

Engineering degree

Testing & characterization

Test rigs design

Torque sensors & load cells

Encoders & thermocouples

Measurement uncertainty

Data-driven root cause analysis

CAD skills

English fluency

Education

BSc/MSc in mechanical, mechatronic, or electrical engineering

Tools

CAD software

Job description

About Enact

The next defining technological breakthrough will be in the physical world. We stand at a historical inflection point: bringing general-purpose intelligence into robotics.

At Enact we rethink the entire robotic tech stack from model architectures and data pipelines, to the actuators and sensors that feed the model. Pushing beyond pure vision and language approaches, we build a proprioceptive nerve system, and the cortex that makes sense of it, to solve dexterity through whole-body force-awareness and deploy robots for thousands of tasks in industry and beyond.

We are shaping a company where brilliant and unconventional people thrive together on solving the hardest challenges of our time. We are truth seekers. We reason from first principles, test our beliefs against reality, and trust that the best ideas can come from anyone. We move fast. We care deeply about our work and colleagues and are driven by passion to change the status quo.

If this resonates, we're excited to hear from you.

In This Role

You will drive our next-gen robotic actuators from prototyping to manufacturing and characterization, working together with our team to turn real-world insights and design feedback into the next evolution of robotic actuation. You'll be hands-on, developing test setups and process improvements, turning ideas into working systems fast.

• Motor Test & Characterization: You will design and build our actuator test setups and rigs, and characterize motor performance: parameters, torque-ripple, cogging, efficiency, and thermal behavior, for our actuators.

• Quality & Reliability: You will own motor quality and reliability: FMEA, and life and thermal-cycle testing to prove our actuators survive real use.

• Root-Cause Analysis & Improvement: You will investigate failures and performance drift, drive corrective actions, and feed findings back into our design and production process.

• Data, Reporting & Acceptance Criteria: You will run systematic data collection and technical reporting, and define the acceptance criteria and KPIs that gate every unit we ship.

What We’re Looking For

• Degree (BSc/MSc) in mechanical, mechatronic, or electrical engineering/equivalent hands-on experience.

• Experience in testing, characterization, or quality and reliability engineering.

• Hands-on design and build of test rigs: torque sensors and load cells, dynamometers, encoders, thermocouples etc.

• Fluency with measurement uncertainty and setup calibration

• A rigorous, data-driven approach to root-cause analysis and improving both product and process.

• Strong CAD skills for fixtures and test hardware.

• Language: We are an international team, fluency in English is a must have.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Supplier quality experience: incoming inspection

• Familiarity with motor control, motor drives and current sensing

• Familiarity with high degree of freedom robotic systems

• Applied statistics in production context

What we offer

• The opportunity to make a real impact working on some of the biggest challenges of our time

• A fast-paced learning environment alongside an outstanding, driven team

• Ownership from day one, with the ability to iterate quickly and see your impact firsthand in an early-stage startup

• Visa sponsorship & relocation benefits to hire the best in the world

• A world-class in-person setup in central Zürich, with excellent prototyping, robotics, and technical infrastructure for hands‑on builders

• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation