Robotics Hardware Design Intern

Mind Robotics; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Mind Robotics seeks a Hardware Engineering Intern to work alongside senior hardware engineers on real-world robotic systems. You will model and route 3D harnesses, create 2D drawings, select components, and build prototype harnesses tested on the robot.

You’ll translate schematics to physical layouts, apply routing rules, and contribute to BOMs and PLM documentation while learning in a hands-on environment on the factory-ready hardware.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related program.
• Comfort reading electrical schematics, block diagrams, and pinout tables.
• Hands-on build skills: soldering, crimping, and assembling something electromechanical that had to work.

Responsibilities

• Model and maintain 3D wire harness routing in 3DEXPERIENCE/CATIA within system-level robot assemblies — clearances, service loops, tie-down and clamp locations
• Create 2D harness drawings and flattened formboard layouts, including wire run lists, connector tables, detail views, and general notes
• Select connectors, contacts, backshells, strain reliefs, grommets, and sleeving; build and maintain the associated BOMs
• Work with electrical engineering to translate schematics and pinout tables into physical harness architecture
• Apply routing rules: minimum bend radius, shield termination, power/signal separation, abrasion protection, and strain relief at every breakout
• Build prototype harnesses on the board — cut, strip, crimp, terminate shields, apply sleeving and heat shrink — then continuity- and pinout-test everything before it goes on a robot
• Install harnesses into robot assemblies and drive what you learn back into the model and drawing: interference, insufficient slack, connectors you can’t reach with a hand tool
• Package DFM/RFQ documentation for harness suppliers and contract manufacturers, and help resolve their feedback
• Maintain revision control and release documentation in our PLM system

Skills

Hands-on build skills

Attention to detail

Engineering curiosity

Education

Currently enrolled in Mech Eng / Elec Eng / Mechatronics program

Tools

3DEXPERIENCE/CATIA

SolidWorks

Creo

NX

Job description

Mind Robotics seeks a Hardware Engineering Intern to work alongside senior hardware engineers on real-world robotic systems. You will model and route 3D harnesses, create 2D drawings, select components, and build prototype harnesses tested on the robot.

You’ll translate schematics to physical layouts, apply routing rules, and contribute to BOMs and PLM documentation while learning in a hands-on environment on the factory-ready hardware.