Mechatronics Engineer | Next-Gen Defense Robotics + Equity

Mach Industries; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Mach Industries is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our San Francisco‑based team, building mechatronics and robotics products with a small, highly autonomous group. You will own mechanical systems end‑to‑end, from ideation through deployment, collaborating across disciplines to make design decisions early in product development.

Responsibilities include tackling actuation, kinematics, sensor integration, and manufacturability, with emphasis on rapid prototyping, test planning, and clear

Qualifications

• Foundational understanding of mechatronics, mechanism design, kinematics and dynamics.
• Demonstrated hands-on turning ideas into hardware, bridging theory and practicality
• Experience taking ambiguous, open-ended problems and creating workable design with minimal oversight
• An intrinsic curiosity about hard problems and the motivation to learn unfamiliar systems
• Ability to lead reviews, influence cross-functional teams, and convey risks and solutions clearly
• Experience making design decisions around 3D CAD, 2D drawings, material selection, and manufacturability.

Responsibilities

• Anticipate challenges in actuation, kinematics, sensor integration and embedded controls in order to help keep the team moving forward
• Make early technical and design decisions, from part selection through tradeoffs to ensure we can build and manufacture at scale
• Contribute to test plans, technical documentation, and engineering reviews.
• Validate design and iterate hardware based on performance feedback
• Build proof-of-concept designs, run experiments, and communicate findings

Skills

Mechatronics

Mechanism design

Kinematics

Dynamics

3D CAD

Embedded controls

Cross-functional leadership

Education

BA degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

3D CAD

Mechanical simulation

Tolerance analysis

Job description

Mach Industries is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our San Francisco‑based team, building mechatronics and robotics products with a small, highly autonomous group. You will own mechanical systems end‑to‑end, from ideation through deployment, collaborating across disciplines to make design decisions early in product development.

Responsibilities include tackling actuation, kinematics, sensor integration, and manufacturability, with emphasis on rapid prototyping, test planning, and clear