Mechanical Engineer

About Machina Labs:

Engineering moves at software speed. Manufacturing doesn't. Yet. 

Machina Labs is changing that. We build intelligent, software-defined factories that produce complex metal structures directly from digital design. By integrating advanced metal forming, robotics, and automated production inside a flexible factory architecture, we enable customers to move from prototype to production in weeks, not years. 

Backed by Lockheed Martin, Toyota, and NVIDIA, we're building the manufacturing infrastructure that defense, aerospace, and advanced mobility programs will run on. 

If you want to work on hard problems that matter and see them fly, drive, and defend, this is the place. 

Job Description:

Machina Labs is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to own mechanical hardware design for our robotic sheet forming cells, taking designs from concept through release and into production.

You will own the design of machine subsystems, make and defend the design decisions that set how that hardware performs, lasts, and is serviced, and work closely with Robotics, Forming Process, Electrical, Controls, and Production to get it built and running reliably. As the machine and the company grow, the areas you own will grow and shift with them.

The ideal candidate has owned a complex mechanical subsystem on industrial machinery, robotics, CNC, or automation equipment, and is comfortable taking it from first concept to hardware running in production.

What you will own:

Mechanical hardware design:

• Own the design of machine hardware through release. Examples include robot end-of-arm tooling (forming end effectors, spindle assemblies, heated forming end effectors, scan and calibration tool mounts), machine frame and structural hardware, and other robot-mounted and cell subsystems.

• Define mechanical, fluid, and electrical interfaces to the robot and machine, and hold them under change control.

• Design integrated fluid and thermal systems: cooling, lubrication, material transport, vacuum, and actuation.

• Integrate sensing (load, pressure, temperature) with the electrical and controls teams.

• Set the manufacturability approach for the assemblies you own, and lead design and manufacturability reviews with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and Production.

Analysis, verification, and documentation:

• Perform and document analyses for release (tolerance, structural, thermal, etc.).

• Write and execute design verification plans, and use test data to drive designs to performance, life, and serviceability targets.

• Produce and maintain release documentation: CAD, fabrication-ready drawings with GD&T, BOMs, revision history, and capability specs. Own engineering changes for your hardware.