Mechanical Engineer

Samson Rose; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Samson Rose in San Francisco is seeking a strong, hands-on mechanical engineer to design, build, and deploy robotic grinding and finishing cells for metal parts used across buildings, planes, cars, and spaces. You’ll collaborate with the hardware team to take concepts from CAD to fabricated assemblies and real-world deployment.

You’ll gain hands-on experience on the factory floor, deploying cells in customer facilities and learning processes from the parts up.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in mechanical engineering.
• Solid mechanical engineering fundamentals and strong CAD skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build real hardware and hands-on fabrication.
• Desire to learn robotic grinding and surface finishing from the ground up.
• Comfort on a factory floor and willingness to learn from early mistakes.

Responsibilities

• Design and build parts of grinding and finishing cells (fixturing, end effectors, mounts, guarding, mechanical guts).
• Turn designs into real hardware: CAD, fabrication, assembly, and iterative refinement.
• Deploy and debug cells on customer floors to learn processes from the parts up.
• Grow into ownership of increasingly challenging mechanical problems.

Skills

CAD

Mechanical fundamentals

Hands-on fabrication

Factory floor experience

Robotics exposure

Job description

The role:

We're looking for a strong, hands-on mechanical engineer to join our client's hardware team. You need to be a genuinely good builder who's hungry to learn a hard, physical problem and get your hands dirty doing it. You'll work alongside the existing mechanical engineers designing, building, and deploying the robotic cells that finish metal parts in real factories. The impact is tremendous. All of these parts go on to exist inside buildings, planes, cars, streets, robots, data centers, other factories, and even things that go into space.

What you'll do:

• Design and build parts of the clients' grinding and finishing cells (fixturing, end effectors, mounts, guarding, the mechanical guts of a working machine).
• Turn designs into real hardware: CAD, fab, assembly, and the iteration in between.
• Get on the floor. You'll help deploy and debug cells in customer facilities and learn the process from the parts up.
• Grow into ownership of harder mechanical problems as you go.

What we're looking for:

• 2+ years of experience
• Solid mechanical engineering fundamentals and strong CAD skills.
• Someone who actually builds things and can prove they've made real hardware.
• Hunger to learn robotic grinding and surface finishing from the ground up.
• Comfort being on a factory floor, and being wrong on the way to being right.
• Low ego, high output, and deep care in transforming the way America builds things.

Nice to have:

• Worked at a startup and/or been on deployments
• Experience with robot integration, fixturing, or automation.
• Hands-on fabrication skills (machining, welding, etc.).
• Exposure to manufacturing or foundry environments.