Home Robotics Mechanical Design Engineer

Weave Robotics, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Weave Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer in San Francisco to design articulated robotic mechanisms, from concept to production. You will balance torque, speed, stiffness, and durability across a wide range of tasks and operating conditions for home robotics.

You will work with controls, electronics, and industrial design teams, applying first-principles analysis, CAD, prototyping, and testing to deliver reliable, manufacturable mechanisms.

Qualifications

• Articulated mechanism experience: 3+ years designing actuated (or equivalent research experience), multi-DOF electromechanical systems.
• Strong mechanical design fundamentals: motors, gearboxes, bearings, shafts, fasteners, linkages, springs, structural design, friction, wear.
• CAD & detailed design: Onshape/SolidWorks/Creo with complex assemblies, drawings, GD&T and configuration management.
• Actuator & transmission design: experience selecting and integrating BLDC motors, harmonic drives, planetary gearboxes, etc.
• Mechanical analysis: FBDs, load cases, stress/deflection, fatigue, stiffness, inertia, mechanism dynamics.
• Production design: manufacturing processes like CNC machining, injection molding, die casting, sheet metal, additive.

Responsibilities

• Design articulated robotic mechanisms: multi-DOF joints, manipulators, grippers, linkages, actuated assemblies.
• Design for real-world use: withstand repeated impacts, loads, wear, contamination beyond lab conditions.
• Own designs end-to-end: concepts to CAD, analysis, prototyping, testing, production release.
• Engineer for performance: balance torque, speed, stiffness, backlash, mass, thermal and cost targets.
• Analyze and validate designs: first-principles, FEA, tolerance analysis, physical testing.
• Collaborate system-wide: coordinate with controls, electrical, embedded, and industrial design teams.

Skills

Articulated mechanism design

Mechanical design fundamentals

CAD & detailed design

Actuator & transmission design

Mechanical analysis

Production design

Hands-on engineering

Tools

Onshape

SolidWorks

Creo

GD&T

Job description

Weave Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer in San Francisco to design articulated robotic mechanisms, from concept to production. You will balance torque, speed, stiffness, and durability across a wide range of tasks and operating conditions for home robotics.

You will work with controls, electronics, and industrial design teams, applying first-principles analysis, CAD, prototyping, and testing to deliver reliable, manufacturable mechanisms.