Staff Mechanical Engineer

Akkar; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive pay

Benefits

Job summary

Akkar is seeking a Staff Mechanical Engineer to lead the mechanical design and development of battery and charging systems for a next-generation humanoid robot.

You will own battery enclosures, thermal management, docking interfaces, and work across manufacturing, quality, and suppliers to deliver production-ready hardware.

This role offers impact as robots scale toward real-world deployment, with equity and strong benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in mechanical design and development of complex electromechanical products.
• Experience with battery hardware, battery enclosures, charging systems, connectors, or power electronics packaging.
• Experience taking products from concept through prototype, validation, and production.
• Strong understanding of mechanical design, tolerance analysis, manufacturing processes, and validation.

Responsibilities

• Design advanced battery systems including enclosures, mounting structures, retention mechanisms, and service interfaces.
• Develop reliable charging systems with precise alignment, battery engagement, and repeated charging cycles.
• Solve integration challenges across battery, charging, connectors, thermal management, and robotic hardware.
• Use structural, thermal, and tolerance analysis to validate and optimize designs.
• Take concepts through prototyping, testing, root-cause analysis, and design iteration.
• Work closely with manufacturing, quality, and suppliers to develop production-ready hardware.
• Drive DFM/DFA, cost optimization, reliability, and serviceability as designs scale.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers across battery and charging hardware development.

Skills

Mechanical design

Battery hardware

Thermal management

DFM/DFA

Mentor engineers

Tools

Tolerance analysis

Job description

Ready to design the systems that keep next-generation humanoid robots powered and working?

We’re partnering with a cutting-edge robotics company developing advanced humanoid systems for real-world deployment. As they scale toward commercial production, they’re looking for a Staff Mechanical Engineer – Battery & Charging Systems to lead the mechanical development of battery hardware and charging infrastructure.

This is a high-impact opportunity to solve some of the most important challenges in robotic uptime, from battery packaging and thermal management to charging interfaces, autonomous docking, reliability, and serviceability. With the platform designed for real-world work and extended operation, battery and charging systems are critical to keeping robots productive.

Why Join?

• Design the hardware that keeps humanoid robots powered and productive.
• Lead critical mechanical systems from architecture through prototype, validation, and production.
• Solve complex challenges across battery packaging, charging, docking, thermal management, and robotics.
• Work across mechanical, electrical, controls, manufacturing, and systems engineering.
• See your designs become part of a humanoid platform being developed for real-world deployment at scale.
• Join a rapidly growing robotics company backed by significant investment and focused on commercializing humanoid robotics.
• Competitive compensation, equity, and strong benefits on offer.

The Role

As a Staff Mechanical Engineer, you’ll lead the mechanical design and development of battery and charging systems for a next-generation humanoid robot.

What You’ll Do

• Design advanced battery systems including enclosures, mounting structures, retention mechanisms, and service interfaces.
• Develop reliable charging systems that enable precise alignment, battery engagement, and repeated charging cycles.
• Solve complex integration challenges across battery, charging, connectors, thermal management, and robotic hardware.
• Use structural, thermal, and tolerance analysis to validate and optimize designs.
• Take concepts through prototyping, testing, root-cause analysis, and design iteration.
• Work closely with manufacturing, quality, and suppliers to develop production-ready hardware.
• Drive DFM/DFA, cost optimization, reliability, and serviceability as designs scale.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers across battery and charging hardware development.

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of experience in mechanical design and development of complex electromechanical products.
• Experience with battery hardware, battery enclosures, charging systems, connectors, or power electronics packaging.
• Experience taking products from concept through prototype, validation, and production.
• Strong understanding of mechanical design, tolerance analysis, manufacturing processes, and validation.

Backgrounds in robotics, automotive, EV, aerospace, consumer electronics, or other complex electromechanical products are highly relevant.