What you need

Strong CAD skills (Onshape/SolidWorks)
Hands-on manufacturing & rapid prototyping experience
Track record: CAD to physical prototypes quickly
Practical knowledge of materials, tolerances, fasteners
Robotics experience & product aesthetics sense

What you'll do

Design robot parts, mechanisms, enclosures in CAD
Build & iterate prototypes using 3D printing, laser cutting
Design for manufacturing & assembly (DFMA)
Create fixtures, jigs, drawings, assembly instructions
Test parts on robots, collaborate with EE/SW engineers

Nori Robotics (YC S26) builds affordable humanoids whose intelligence scales with our fleet. We're looking for a hands-on mechanical engineer who can turn ideas into well-designed, manufacturable robot hardware quickly.

What you'll work on

• Design robot parts, mechanisms, enclosures and assemblies in Onshape, SolidWorks or equivalent CAD software.

• Build and iterate prototypes using 3D printers, laser cutters, vacuum forming, molds and other fabrication processes.

• Design for manufacturing and assembly, balancing appearance, durability, cost and ease of repair.

• Develop fixtures, jigs, drawings and assembly instructions that help our production team build consistently.

• Test parts on real robots and work with electrical and software engineers to resolve integration issues.

Requirements

• Strong CAD skills and hands-on manufacturing experience.

• A track record of quickly taking designs from CAD to physical prototypes, testing them and improving them.

• Practical understanding of materials, tolerances, fasteners and manufacturing processes.

• Some robotics experience and a good eye for proportion, finish and product aesthetics.

• A portfolio showing things you personally designed and built.

Nice to have

Experience designing a complete robot, bringing products into production, working with suppliers, or integrating basic electronics, wiring, motors and sensors.

Full-time, onsite at our San Francisco warehouse. Part-time arrangements may be considered, with compensation adjusted for hours.

Compensation

Base salary: $100,000–$120,000 per year, depending on job-related skills and experience. Please include a portfolio with your application.

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About Nori

We manufacture Nori: A sub-$2000 bimanual mobile manipulator that can clean rooms, restock shelves, and fold clothes. Nori can handle basic tasks out of the box, and its software lets anyone teach Nori to automate work specific to their home or business. Nori aims to solve the robotics data bottleneck. By deploying affordable robots to customers around the world, we can gather the diverse data required to train the next generation of generalist robotic policies. Every user of Nori makes Nori smarter. Since launching 6 weeks ago we have already deployed our first robot and have over $440k+ in sales. We can bring general-purpose robotics to homes and businesses that could never afford it before. There are 132.7 million households and 8.4 million employer business locations in the U.S. At $1,688 per robot, selling just one Nori to 0.5% of them represents a $1.2B market opportunity in the U.S. alone.

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