Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Humanoid Robotics

Engineered Arts LLC; Falmouth; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Engineered Arts LLC in Falmouth, England, is seeking a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to design mechanical components and subsystems for humanoid robots, driving A to production readiness from concept to production. You’ll collaborate across teams, optimize for manufacturability, and push for real-world reliability and performance.

The role covers concept through testing, with an emphasis on integration with electronics and software, materials selection, and detailed documentation.

Qualifications

• Strong real-world experience in mechanical design.
• Advanced CAD skills with Autodesk Inventor.
• Solid GD&T and tolerance stack-up analysis knowledge.
• Experience in mechanism design, linkages, bearings, power transmission, and actuator integration.
• Hands-on prototyping experience.
• Experience with materials ranging from aluminum and steel to acetal and polymers.
• Experience designing for manufacturability (DFM) and assembly (DFA).
• Ability to work cross-functionally with electrical and controls teams to integrate motors, sensors, wiring, and embedded systems.
• Proven ability to take hardware from concept through validation and into production.
• Direct experience developing legged or humanoid robotic systems.
• Experience in design combining aesthetics and function (animatronics, effects).
• Experience designing bespoke actuators and complex mechanisms.
• Knowledge of thermal management for compact electromechanical assemblies.
• Familiarity with motion control systems and basic control theory.
• Understanding of safety standards for robotic systems.
• Startup or fast-paced hardware development experience.
• Experience transitioning from prototype to volume manufacturing.
• Experience with organic mesh modelling (Blender, Z-Brush).

Responsibilities

• Design mechanical components and subsystems for humanoid robots, including novel and intricate mechanisms, actuation solutions and aesthetic shells and skins.
• Take designs through all stages of lifecycle, including concept, prototype, testing, iteration, production and maintenance.
• Balance design constraints across aesthetics, performance, durability, availability and manufacturability.
• Design for the real world - identify materials and manufacturing processes that balance strength, weight, cost, and scalability to ensure both prototype feasibility and production readiness.
• Collaborate with both in-house and external manufacturing teams for prototype and production across technologies including additive manufacturing, CNC machining and various casting and moulding techniques.
• Solve problems without limits - no matter whether it’s a tricky new design, a reliability issue in the field or a need for improving our internal design data tooling, you roll up your sleeves and find effective and efficient solutions.
• Collaborate closely with our Electronics and Software engineering teams to integrate mechanical systems with sensing, actuation, control, and embedded hardware architectures.
• Validate and improve the real-world performance and reliability of designs by designing and implementing relevant testing, supported where necessary by analysis and calculation.
• Generate and maintain detailed engineering documentation, including production drawings (GD&T), assembly documentation, tolerance analyses, specifications and bills of materials.
• Contribute to product compliance as required, including risk assessments, material safety, functional safety and supporting documentation to meet applicable regulatory and operational safety standards.

Skills

Mechanical design

Autodesk Inventor

GD&T analysis

Mechanism design

Prototyping

Materials selection

DFM/ DFA

Cross-functional with EE/controls

Hardware validation

Humanoid robotics

Actuators & mechanisms

Thermal management

Motion control basics

Robotics safety standards

Startup experience

Mesh modelling (Blender, Z-Brush)

Tools

Autodesk Inventor

Blender

Z-Brush

Job description

Engineered Arts LLC in Falmouth, England, is seeking a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to design mechanical components and subsystems for humanoid robots, driving A to production readiness from concept to production. You’ll collaborate across teams, optimize for manufacturability, and push for real-world reliability and performance.

The role covers concept through testing, with an emphasis on integration with electronics and software, materials selection, and detailed documentation.