About Mind

Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Mechanical Design Engineer to lead the physical design, material selection, and integration of our next-generation tactile sensing systems that allows our robots to feel, manipulate, and interact with the physical world in real time. In this role, you will bridge the gap between hard mechanical architecture and soft, compliant material interfaces, building robust sensory "skins" for robotic hands, grippers, and contact-rich interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop mechanical components, assemblies, and skins for tactile sensors integrated into robotic end effectors (fingertips, palms, gripper surfaces) , data collection gloves and other contact-rich subsystems.

• Own the tactile sensor stack mechanically from transducer packaging and skin/elastomer design through integration into volume-constrained, cable-routed assemblies.

• Develop and tune elastomer / compliant materials (silicone, urethane, gels) including durometer selection, embedded markers or particles, surface texturing, and durability under shear and cyclic loading.

• Rapidly build, test, and break prototypes. Use 3D printing and manual fabrication to validate designs.

• Perform analyses (FEA, contact mechanics, tolerance, thermal) to validate sensor performance, predict failure modes, and guide design decisions.

• Design characterization fixtures and accelerated test plans — indenters, force/torque ground truth setups, shear testers, life-cycle rigs — to validate tactile performance under realistic contact conditions.

• Contribute to DFM/DFA efforts so sensor designs scale from low-volume prototypes to high-volume production.

• Source components and work closely with machine shops, materials suppliers, and contract manufacturers to ensure parts are manufactured and shipped to spec and on time.

• Develop specifications and accelerated test plans to validate the product for its lifetime.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with electrical, firmware, controls, and ML teams to translate raw sensor signals into usable manipulation feedback.

Qualifications

• Exceptional Mechanical Intuition. You understand how forces, materials, and contact mechanics behave instinctively.

• 5+ years of experience (or equivalent "hard tech" projects) building complex electromechanical systems, sensors, or tactile/haptic devices.

• Direct experience with at least one tactile sensing modality — capacitive, resistive, optical/vision-based, magnetic, , piezoelectric, MEMS, or barometric.

• Strong materials intuition, particularly with elastomers - hands-on experience with casting, molding, surface treatments, and characterization.

• Familiarity with rapid prototyping techniques such as 3D printing, machining, soft lithography, etc.

• High proficiency in SolidWorks, Catia, or similar CAD tools.

• Hands-on problem-solving approach with ability to iterate quickly.

• Experience designing for volume processes (injection molding, casting, CNC, etc.) and working with contract manufacturers.

• You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an "engineering curiosity" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.

Bonus

• PhD or research experience in tactile / haptic sensing, soft robotics, or contact-rich manipulation.

• Experience designing sensor characterization rigs and analyzing the resulting data.

• Working knowledge of sensor electronics and analog front-ends sufficient to collaborate deeply with EE.

• Prior work on humanoid hands, dexterous grippers, or prosthetics.

About Mind

Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Safety Engineer who can own functional safety end-to-end for our humanoid platform: hazard analysis, architectural decisions, component selection, certification, and the messy real-world testing in between.

Standards like ISO 3691-4, and ISO 10218 tell you what outcomes you must achieve. ISO 25785-1 is currently under development requiring robot dynamic stability control including zero-energy pose protocols, and fall zone markings. They do not tell you how to get there with a bipedal, dynamically balancing, multi-DOF system that doesn't fit cleanly into the assumptions those standards were written under. We need someone who treats that gap as the interesting part of the job — not a blocker.

Responsibilities

• Lead the safety lifecycle for our humanoid platform: hazard analysis, risk assessment, SIL/PL determination, safety requirements specification, and validation.

• Design safety architectures (E-stops, safety-rated monitored stops, power and force limiting, speed and separation monitoring) appropriate to a mobile, dynamically balancing robot.

• Select and justify safety-rated components : controllers, sensors, contactors, and where no off-the-shelf component fits, design or specify alternatives that achieve equivalent safety integrity.

• Drive certification efforts , and own the technical file.

• Partner with mechanical, electrical, controls, and AI teams to bake safety into the design rather than bolt it on.

• Build the test fixtures, procedures, and evidence needed to prove our safety claims.

• Stay ahead of evolving standards (ISO 25785-1, the in-progress humanoid-specific work, etc.) and translate them into engineering decisions..

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of safety engineering experience on industrial robots, collaborative robots, AGVs/AMRs, or comparable machinery.

• Deep working knowledge of ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61508, and ISO 10218 (or ANSI/RIA R15.06); familiarity with ISO/TS 15066 for collaborative applications.

• Software safety experience (IEC 61508-3) in addition to systems-level work.

• Hands-on experience taking a product through safety certification — not just supporting it, but owning the technical narrative and defending it to assessors.

• Comfort with the full toolkit: FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, STPA, and the judgment to know which to reach for.

• A creative mindset. Standards rarely dictate components; they dictate outcomes. We want someone who can architect a novel solution, justify it against the standard's intent, and convince a notified body it meets the bar.

• Strong communication — you'll be explaining safety tradeoffs to executives, engineers, and external assessors who all need different versions of the same story.

About Mind

Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.

About the Role

As a Motor Designer on our team, you will own the electromagnetic design of custom motors and, together with mechanical, controls, and manufacturing partners, rethink what a motor can look like when every cubic millimeter matters. You will move fluidly between simulation, prototype, and bench, and your designs will end up inside robots that interact with the physical world.

Responsibilities

• Design novel electric motor architectures (BLDC, PMSM, unconventional topologies: axial flux, slotless, coreless and etc. ) optimized for extreme torque density and compact packaging.

• Perform electromagnetic simulation and analysis (2D/3D FEA) to evaluate torque, efficiency, thermal behavior, cogging, back-EMF, and loss breakdown across operating points.

• Drive the full design loop from concept through prototype: winding configuration, magnet selection and layout, stator and rotor geometry, lamination and airgap design.

• Produce mechanical designs in CAD AND/OR partner closely with suppliers and mechanical engineers to translate electromagnetic concepts into manufacturable assemblies.

• Specify and review motor components with external vendors, including reviewing their drawings, tolerances, materials, and process capabilities.

• Define and execute dynamometer and characterization testing; correlate simulation to measured performance and iterate designs based on data.

• Collaborate with motor controls, firmware, and mechanical integration engineers to make sure the motor performs well as part of a complete actuator and robot system.

Qualifications

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• Strong electromagnetic simulation skills using tools such as Ansys Maxwell, Motor-CAD, or equivalent, including 2D/3D FEA and parametric studies.

• Deep understanding of electric machine fundamentals: torque production, winding design, magnetic materials, losses, thermal limits, and control interactions.

• Experience taking at least one custom motor from concept through prototype and test.

• Either (a) proficiency in mechanical CAD (CATIA, NX, or similar) to produce your own motor mechanical designs, or (b) demonstrated experience working closely with suppliers and mechanical engineers to deliver manufacturable motor assemblies.