Staff Mechanical Engineer: Battery & Charging Systems

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

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.