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Senior Mechanical Engineer - Robotics

Watney Robotics· Engineering
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior mechanical engineer responsible for designing components and assemblies for Watney's production robots, from concept to production, onsite at San Francisco headquarters.

Responsibilities

  • Design custom mechanical components for advanced robotics and teleoperations systems, including end-effectors, grippers, manipulators, mounts, etc.
  • Develop and implement rapid prototyping solutions to ensure performance, reliability and manufacturability of hardware designs.
  • Integrate mechanical components within larger hardware systems to meet performance and project goals.
  • Provide technical leadership and advise on technology strategy and decision-making.
  • Collaborate with Hardware Engineers and Ops team to support overall product development for autonomous robotics solutions.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of mechanical design experience.
  • Hands-on experience owning end-to-end mechanical design of components and assemblies for robotics systems, medical devices, rockets, drones, automotive systems or similar

Skills

Required:Mechanical design3D modelingCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:GD&T
Last updated Sep 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Watney Robotics

Watney develops autonomous robotics systems to operate datacenter and supercomputing infrastructure.

Autonomous Physical Infrastructure

autonomous roboticsdatacentersupercomputinginfrastructurehyperscalerscompute scaling
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