Robotics Structures Engineer: Precision Hand & Wearables

Rhoda AI; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI is seeking a Structures Engineer to shape the hand architecture, ensuring robust, precise, and manufacturable designs for wearable robotics. You will own the design from concept through production, integrating thermal paths with dense actuator packages to meet real-world use cases.

The role emphasizes light-weight, body-safe structures and excellent tolerance for impact and abuse, with a focus on precision where it matters for reliable grasping.

Qualifications

• DFM for volume production including die-cast and injection-molded parts.
• Thermal design experience, integrating heat paths with actuators in dense packages.
• 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 for fine motor control and reliable grasping.
• Nice-to-have: experience with wearable or body-worn product structures.
• Nice-to-have: familiarity with GD&T and tolerance-stack analysis for small mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Design the structural architecture of the hand — palm, fingers, linkages, and pivots.
• Own design-for-manufacturing of structural parts, from prototype through production
• Integrate thermal paths with the actuation system so dense actuator packages stay within limits
• Engineer for robustness to 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

Linkage/pivot/small-mechanism design

Robust systems design

Precision design

Wearable product structures

GD&T and tolerance-stack analysis

Job description

Rhoda AI is seeking a Structures Engineer to shape the hand architecture, ensuring robust, precise, and manufacturable designs for wearable robotics. You will own the design from concept through production, integrating thermal paths with dense actuator packages to meet real-world use cases.

The role emphasizes light-weight, body-safe structures and excellent tolerance for impact and abuse, with a focus on precision where it matters for reliable grasping.