Senior Mechanical Engineer

Clone Robotics; Wrocław; On-site; PLN 152,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

End-to-end ownership

Meaningful hardware

Close-knit team

Project guidance

International team

Job summary

Clone Robotics in Wrocław is seeking a strong all-around mechanical engineer to own parts from concept to production geometry. You will design organic, manufacturable components and drive projects with senior guidance, collaborating closely with design, validation, and assembly teams.

The role emphasizes SolidWorks surface modeling, electronics integration, and DFx for 3D printing, machining and injection molding.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of mechanical design work — robotics or motion-driven systems preferred.
• Excellent complex surface modeling in SolidWorks — organic surfaces, lofts, curvature continuity, and clean transitions.

Responsibilities

• Design complete mechanical parts from internal mechanism to finished, manufacturable geometry.
• Create complex, organic surface geometry in SolidWorks to a high standard.
• Integrate electronics and standard components into the hardware.
• Validate designs with FEA and hand calculations — loads, stresses, and friction losses.
• Design for manufacturing across 3D printing, machining, and injection molding.

Skills

Complex surface modeling

SolidWorks

Mechanical design

Electronics integration

Motors/actuators

DFx for manufacturing

GD&T

Polymers knowledge

FEA & hand calculations

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

SolidWorks API

Job description

You'll own mechanical parts end-to-end — from the internal mechanism to finished, manufacturable hardware — working across design, validation, and iteration with the broader team.

• Design complete mechanical parts — from the internal mechanism to finished, manufacturable geometry.
• Createcomplex, organic surface geometry in SolidWorksto a high standard.
• Integrate electronics and standard components into the hardware.
• Validate designs withFEA and hand calculations— loads, stresses, and friction losses.
• Design for manufacturing across3D printing, machining, and injection molding(at a basic level).
• Iterate closely with the mechanics and assembly teams.

Requirements

We're looking for a strong all-around mechanical engineer with a portfolio you can show us and excellent complex surface modeling skills in SolidWorks. One or two strong projects are enough — as long as the mechanical design was largely your own.

Required

• Astrong portfolioof mechanical design work — ideally mechanics designed for robotics or other demanding, motion-driven systems.
• Excellent complex surface modeling in SolidWorks— organic surfaces, lofts/boundary/fill, curvature continuity, clean transitions. This is our most important requirement; we won't consider candidates without it.
• Strong all-around mechanical design skills.
• A solid working knowledge ofpolymers and their mechanical behavior— material selection, stiffness, creep, fatigue, and the anisotropy and layer adhesion of printed parts.
• Strong ability todesign and integrate electronicsinto hardware, with some hands-on electronics experience.
• Experience withmotors, gearboxes, actuators, and encoders, and integrating these and other sensors (such as load cells) into mechanisms.
• Design-for-manufacturingexperience — primarily 3D printing (FDM, MSLA) and machining, with at least a basic understanding of injection molding.
• Broad knowledge ofstandard components— bearings, bushings, fasteners, rope hardware such as eyelets and crimps, and parts for tendon routing and attachment — and the ability to select and integrate them quickly.
• Parametric modeling and building tools/configurations for high-variation parts.
• A solid grasp of the underlying mechanics —calculating forces, load paths, and friction losses.
• FEA inSolidWorks Simulation.
• The ability totolerance parts properly, with a strong command of GD&T.
• Strong self-organization, with realistic ETAs for milestones.
• Good teamwork, communication, andfluent English.
• A Bachelor's degree or higher in mechanical engineering or a related field — though a very strong portfolio can substitute.
• Ability to work from the office in Wrocław.

Nice to have

• Experience with cable/tendon-driven mechanisms, pulleys, and routing.
• Experience with composites.
• Experience with novel actuation methods.
• Experience in hydraulics.
• Familiarity with tribology — friction, wear and contact behavior between materials.
• Topology optimization or lightweighting experience.
• Interest in humanoid robotics or mechatronics.
• Experience with elastomers and silicone.
• Scripting and design automation — SolidWorks API, macros, or Python.

What We Offer

You'll be working on one of the hardest mechanical design problems in robotics — parts that have to be organic, precise, manufacturable, and capable of surviving real use on a muscle-driven android.

• End-to-end ownership.You design the part from concept to production geometry — no hand-offs mid-way through.
• Meaningful hardware.Your work goes directly into Clone's androids, not into prototypes that sit on a shelf.
• Close-knit team.
• Project guidance.Senior engineers who care about craft — surfacing, tolerancing, and getting hardware to work in real world.
• Scaling. Our company is constantly growing. You will become part of an international team with wide development opportunities

Contract

• B2B contract with 20 days of paid holidays + 5 days of sick leave + 8 unpaid days off
• Hourly rate: 110-150 PLN netto on invoice + VAT

Recruitment Process

• CV and portfolio review