Mechanical Engineer - Dexterous Robotics Prototyping

Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation is seeking a full-time Mechanical Engineer to join their team. You will own projects end-to-end, from problem discovery to design, fabrication, testing, and deployment, with significant ownership and flexibility.

You’ll work on dexterous robotic hands, diagnose failures, and build the hardware infrastructure for internal and external deployments, partnering with software/controls to elevate overall performance in a fast-paced, early-stage environment.

Qualifications

• Mechanical design and CAD proficiency required or strongly preferred.
• Ability to design, prototype, test, and iterate mechanical systems.
• Experience with manufacturing or higher-volume production is a plus.
• Comfort working in an early-stage environment with evolving priorities.
• Willingness to own problems that span mechanical, electrical, and software domains.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, test, and refine subsystems on dexterous robotic hands.
• Diagnose failures in test cells and deployed systems; design fixes.
• Build hardware infrastructure to deploy robotic systems and collect data.
• Rapid fabrication via 3D printing, desktop CNC, hand tools.
• Design exogloves, test rigs, perception mounts, tooling, fixtures for the system.
• Collaborate with software and controls to improve overall machine performance.
• Take projects from idea through CAD, fabrication, assembly, testing, deployment.
• Evolve designs from prototypes toward manufacturable products.

Skills

Mechanical design

CAD

3D modeling

Prototype fabrication

Problem solving

Coding basics

Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CAD software

3D printing

CNC machining

Job description

Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation is seeking a full-time Mechanical Engineer to join their team. You will own projects end-to-end, from problem discovery to design, fabrication, testing, and deployment, with significant ownership and flexibility.

You’ll work on dexterous robotic hands, diagnose failures, and build the hardware infrastructure for internal and external deployments, partnering with software/controls to elevate overall performance in a fast-paced, early-stage environment.