Lead Mechatronics Engineer — Robotics Hardware

Meta Careers; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Reality Labs Research in Redmond, WA seeks a Principal Mechatronics Engineer to lead the system architecture, detailed design, integration, and measured characterization of advanced robotic hardware. You will own dynamic hardware platforms from concept through validation, collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams.

The role requires 12+ years in mechanical, robotic, or electromechanical systems, strong expertise in 3D CAD, kinematics, dynamics, and sensor integration, and hands-on proficiency

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years of experience developing complex mechanical, robotic, or electromechanical systems, including setting technical direction across multiple teams or programs from architecture through hardware validation
• Experience owning a dynamic hardware system through architecture, detailed design, build, integration, test, and design iteration
• Experience applying kinematics, statics, dynamics, structural analysis, and first-principles calculations to mechanisms, transmissions, and actuator sizing
• Experience integrating motors, transmissions, position or force sensors, wiring, and electronics into compact mechanisms
• Working knowledge of feedback-controlled systems, sensors, timing, and operating limits, with experience characterizing dynamic hardware well enough to make sound mechanical decisions and debug integrated systems
• Experience integrating tactile, force/torque, position, current, temperature, or other sensing into tightly packaged mechanisms
• Experience designing for rapid research iteration, manufacturability, serviceability, and repeatable assembly
• Experience designing flex and harness routing, calibration features, and durable sensor integration
• Experience correlating multibody, structural, or simplified dynamic models with physical measurements
• Experience identifying inertia, friction, compliance, backlash, resonance, or temperature-dependent behavior from test data

Responsibilities

• Lead system architecture, detailed design, integration, and measured characterization of complex robotic hardware
• Own dynamic hardware system through architecture, design, build, test, and iterations
• Collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams to drive hardware validation and deployment
• Apply modeling and experimental analysis to guide mechanical decisions and debugging of integrated systems
• Design for manufacturability, serviceability, and repeatable assembly

Skills

System architecture

Mechanical design

Robotics hardware integration

3D CAD

Kinematics & dynamics

Sensor integration

Python / MATLAB

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or related field

Tools

Python

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

Reality Labs Research in Redmond, WA seeks a Principal Mechatronics Engineer to lead the system architecture, detailed design, integration, and measured characterization of advanced robotic hardware. You will own dynamic hardware platforms from concept through validation, collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams.

The role requires 12+ years in mechanical, robotic, or electromechanical systems, strong expertise in 3D CAD, kinematics, dynamics, and sensor integration, and hands-on proficiency