Mechanical Design Structures Engineer

Rhoda; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI in Mountain View is seeking a Structures Engineer to design the structural skeleton of the hand system, including palms, fingers, linkages, and housings that endure real-world use while supporting precision manipulation.

You will own design-for-manufacturing for die-cast and injection-m molded parts, integrate thermal paths with actuators, and help ensure robustness and repeatable grasping in wearable devices.

Qualifications

• Experience with die-cast and injection-mold part design with DFM for volume production.
• Thermal design experience, especially integrating heat paths with actuators in dense packages.
• Strong background in linkage, pivot, and small-mechanism design.
• Proven ability to design robust systems that tolerate impact and sustained abuse.
• Ability to design for precision where it matters, enabling fine motor control and reliable grasping.

Responsibilities

• Design the structural architecture of the hand — palm, fingers, linkages, and pivots.
• Own design-for-manufacturing of structural parts, including die-cast and injection-molded components, from prototype through production.
• Integrate thermal paths with the actuation system so dense actuator packages stay within limits.
• Engineer for robustness: the hand must tolerate impacts, drops, and sustained real-world abuse.
• Hold the precision required for fine motor control and repeatable grasping.
• Design lightweight, body-safe structures for wearable devices.

Skills

DFM for volume production

Thermal design with actuators

Linkage & small-mechanism design

Robust systems design

Precision for fine motor control

Job description

At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.

Structures Engineer

You will design the structural skeleton of the hand system — the palms, fingers, linkages, and housings that must survive real-world abuse while holding the precision that fine manipulation demands.

What You’ll Do

• Design the structural architecture of the hand — palm, fingers, linkages, and pivots

• Own design-for-manufacturing of structural parts, including die-cast and injection-molded components, from prototype through production

• Integrate thermal paths with the actuation system so dense actuator packages stay within limits

• Engineer for robustness: the hand must tolerate impacts, drops, and sustained real-world abuse

• Hold the precision required for fine motor control and repeatable grasping

• Design lightweight, body-safe structures for wearable devices

What You Bring

• Experience with die-cast and injection-mold part design, including DFM for volume production

• Thermal design experience, especially integrating heat paths with actuators in dense packages

• Strong background in linkage, pivot, and small-mechanism design

• Proven ability to design robust systems that tolerate impact and sustained abuse

• Ability to design for precision where it matters, enabling fine motor control and reliable grasping

Nice to Have

• Experience with wearable or body-worn product structures

• Familiarity with GD&T and tolerance-stack analysis for small mechanisms