Lead Mechanical Engineer, Autonomous Coffee Robotics

p!ng; Hudson (NH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

p!ng is building the fastest autonomous coffee drive-thru, and we seek our first mechanical engineer to own the transformation from drink-making robotics to scalable hardware. You’ll design, prototype, test, and iterate end-to-end, taking concepts through production-ready hardware in the field.

This role blends hands-on fabrication with system-level thinking, collaborating with software and electrical teams to ensure reliable, fast, and cost-efficient equipment for early-stage hardware

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in mechanical design, mechanisms, materials, tolerancing, and design for manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Own the core mechanical systems of our robotic coffee platform.
• Reliability and throughput: identify failure modes, design tests, analyze root causes, and improve cycle time and uptime.
• Rapid development: translate imperfect information into CAD, prototypes, experiments, and decisions.
• Production readiness: select components, create drawings and tolerances, design for manufacturing and assembly, and reduce cost and complexity, working with vendors and fabrication partners
• Field performance: support the live system, diagnose failures quickly, and turn one-off fixes into durable design improvements.
• Cross-functional integration: work closely with software and electrical engineering so sensors, actuators, controls, and mechanical systems operate as one machine.
• Mechanical engineering foundations: establish practical processes, documentation, testing, design-review, and release standards for the team that follows you.

Skills

Mechanical design

Mechanisms

Materials

Tolerancing

Design for manufacturing

Prototyping

Shop tools

Problem solving

Tools

CAD

Job description

p!ng is building the fastest autonomous coffee drive-thru, and we seek our first mechanical engineer to own the transformation from drink-making robotics to scalable hardware. You’ll design, prototype, test, and iterate end-to-end, taking concepts through production-ready hardware in the field.

This role blends hands-on fabrication with system-level thinking, collaborating with software and electrical teams to ensure reliable, fast, and cost-efficient equipment for early-stage hardware