Senior Mechatronics Engineer — Lead Mobile Robot Hardware

Parametric (YC F25); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Parametric is hiring our second senior hardware engineer in San Francisco to own the electrical architecture of our mobile manipulation platform, focusing on power, wiring, and the buses that tie actuators, sensors, and compute into one working robot.

You will write bring-up and validation code for the subsystems you build and hand off clean, working interfaces to software engineers. This is an in-person role at our SF office, with visa sponsorship not available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in robotics or electromechanical systems with ownership of electrical architecture on a fielded system.
• Experience integrating motor controllers, encoders, and sensors on real hardware.
• Ability to write the code that brings hardware up and proves it works.
• Proficient at making things: CAD, 3D printing, and general fabrication.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration, and full ownership at an early-stage startup.

Responsibilities

• Own the power system of a mobile robot.
• Design electronics layout, harnessing, and cable routing for systems that move.
• Integrate actuators, sensors, and compute.
• Write bring-up, validation, and diagnostic code for the hardware you build.
• Debug electromechanical issues at the bench and on the robot.
• Work with vendors as we move toward production.

Skills

Electrical architecture ownership

Power system design

Motor controllers integration

Encoders and sensors integration

Hardware bring-up and validation

CAD / 3D printing / fabrication

Ambiguity tolerance and fast iteration

Tools

CAD

3D printing

Job description

Parametric — San Francisco (in-person, full-time)

About Us

Parametric is building robots to automate physical labor in the real world. We're a small team of staff-level engineers moving fast from prototype to product, and we're hiring our second senior hardware engineer.

About The Role

You'll own the electrical architecture of our mobile manipulation platform: power, wiring, and the buses that tie actuators, sensors, and compute into one working robot. You'll write the bring-up and validation code for the subsystems you build and hand off clean, working interfaces to software engineers.

This is an in-person role in our San Francisco office. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

What You'll Do

• Own the power system of a mobile robot
• Design electronics layout, harnessing, and cable routing for systems that move
• Integrate actuators, sensors, and compute
• Write bring-up, validation, and diagnostic code for the hardware you build
• Debug electromechanical issues at the bench and on the robot
• Work with vendors as we move toward production
  
  

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years in robotics or electromechanical systems, with ownership of electrical architecture on a fielded system
• Experience integrating motor controllers, encoders, and sensors on real hardware
• Ability to write the code that brings hardware up and proves it works
• Proficient at making things: CAD, 3D printing, and general fabrication
• Comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration, and full ownership at an early-stage startup
  
  

The strongest applications show us what you've built. Include a portfolio, photos, or links to your work.

Parametric PBC is a public benefit corporation building robots to benefit all humans. We're a proud equal-opportunity employer and encourage applications from all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. We encourage you to apply even if you don't strictly meet all the requirements.