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Mechatronics Engineer, Intern (Fall/Winter '26)

Parametric· Engineering, Hardware
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$6k/mo - $10k/moInternPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Parametric is hiring a fall/winter internship for a Mechatronics Engineer to design the electrical architecture and bring-up hardware for a mobile manipulation platform, with in-person work in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • Previous internships or club experience in robotics or electromechanical systems
  • 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

Skills

Required:Electronics designActuator and sensor integrationProgramming for hardware bring-upCAD / 3D printing / fabrication
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Robots for frontline physical labor — starting with laundry

Existing robots learn generic averages from massive datasets. Our robots learn from customer feedback. We solve the RL feedback loop for robotics, allowing our robots to learn from your specific standards via an automated reward pipeline that combines customer feedback with an intelligent judge model. This is the only way to capture the multi-trillion dollar “long tail” of unique, high-aggregate-value business tasks.

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