Mechanical Design Engineer

3 Hours ago • 2-5 Years • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Matic is developing fully autonomous, useful, elegant, and affordable home robots to automate household chores, aiming to recapture wasted time and economic value. They are reimagining floor-cleaning robots as their first product, with a focus on privacy-first design. They are a consumer robotics product company, not a research lab. This role is for a Mechanical Design Engineer to contribute to end-to-end design, manufacturing, prototyping, and testing of parts and sub-assemblies for high-volume production.
Must have:
  • Work on end-to-end design and manufacturing of parts and sub-assemblies
  • Fabricate prototypes, iterate rapidly, advance concepts through to high volume production
  • Develop specifications and accelerated test plans to validate product for its determined lifetime
  • Component-level testing for performance, durability, reliability, and variability
  • Complete and release component designs and documentation, including 2D drawings
  • Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of subject matter experts to create a cohesive and balanced product
  • Establish relationships with vendors, suppliers, and CMs in a startup environment
Good to have:
  • Genuinely motivated to help those around you
  • Passionate about learning outside of your normal comfort zones
  • Love diagnosing complex technical issues
  • Excited to do great work

Job Details

Overview

Matic is bringing families out of the stone age of remarkably dumb disc home robots. Humanity spends ~2.5 trillion hours annually on home chores, worth $25 trillion in wasted economic value. We are on a mission to recapture this time and value with fully autonomous, useful, elegant, and affordable Wall-E-esque home robots that families love and cannot fathom their lives without.

Our approach

In 2017, we observed 200+ self-driving car startups and an equal number of industrial robotics startups, but the home autonomy and robotics space had been dramatically overlooked. While AI is becoming more ubiquitous, families are still stuck spending dozens of hours per week on repetitive household chores.

At Matic, we're leveraging advanced technology to address this problem. We've started by reimagining our first product in fully autonomous floor-cleaning robots. Just like consumers adopted Cell Phones, then PDAs, then iPods and Blackberries before adopting the iPhone to replace all, we believe that consumers will adopt single-purpose, elegant, and affordable robots that belong and become part of their homes first before we get one-robot-to-rule all chores.

Our goal is to continue automating other forms of household labor, shipping useful, affordable, and privacy-first robots to our users that solve real problems while building iteratively toward more complex tasks and capabilities over time.

Privacy first

Our robots are also private by design, with all the computes on the edge device. We believe that families shouldn't have to jeopardize their privacy just to get some help with the constant drudgery of home chores.

Who we are

We are a consumer robotics product company solving real customer problems. We start with a problem, think of an elegant solution in the form of robots, and conduct necessary research to build products that just work. We believe families want solutions to their problems, and AI & robots enable us to solve them.

Who we are NOT

We are NOT a Robotics Foundation Model research lab, a humanoid builder, or a robotics software platform company. We build fully autonomous, useful, elegant, and affordable Wall-E-esque robotic products that kids, pets, and families love!

About the role

We're looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer to join us on the ground floor, with runway for huge and immediate impact.

What you'll do

  • Work on end-to-end design and manufacturing of parts and sub-assemblies
  • Fabricate prototypes, iterate rapidly, advance your concepts through to high volume production
  • Develop specifications and accelerated test plans to validate the product for its determined lifetime
  • Component-level testing for performance, durability, reliability, and variability
  • Complete and release component designs and documentation, including 2D drawings
  • Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of subject matter experts to create a cohesive and balanced product
  • Establish relationships with vendors, suppliers, and CMs in a startup environment

What we look for

  • Technical degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
  • 2 - 5 years of professional mechanical design engineering experience on a product (preferably B to C) that is shipping in high volume
  • Understanding of materials and high-volume manufacturing methods such as Injection Molding
  • Proficiency in using Solidworks modeling 3D CAD design software
  • Comfort with PDM, PLM and Engineering Change Management and Quality Management systems
  • Knowledge of GD&T, finite element analysis and design for reliability concepts
  • Comfort with fast-paced, startup atmosphere -- you don’t shy away from the hard work
  • High level of maturity, ownership, and pride in your work

We'd love to hear from you if...

  • You are genuinely motivated to help those around you
  • You are passionate about learning outside of your normal comfort zones
  • You love diagnosing complex technical issues
  • You are excited to do great work

Our team

Matic is a tight-knit and collaborative team, singularly focused on building products our customers will cherish. We’re ultra-hardworking people committed to solving tough problems that save our precious time and energy.

At Matic, we're eager to take risks and test convention. We love diving headfirst into hard problems — even if it means some failures along the way. We work smart, hard, and long (in that order), chasing innovation and human impact. We highly value individual ownership and take meticulous pride in the work we do, knowing our efforts affect both one another and our customers.

Those who value curiosity and learning and who don’t shy away from hard problems thrive at Matic. If you are genuinely committed to innovation and improving the lives of others, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply

If you're feeling excited about this opportunity at Matic, then apply, even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement. We're eager to meet people who are keen to learn and are passionate about what Matic is building. We want to hear how you can contribute to our team in a variety of ways – not just the above boxes.

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About The Company

Matic is bringing families out of the stone age of remarkably dumb disc home robots. Humanity spends ~2.5 trillion hours annually on home chores, worth $25 trillion in wasted economic. We are on a mission to recapture this time and value with fully autonomous, useful, elegant, and affordable Wall-E-esque home robots that families love and cannot fathom their lives without. Our robots are also private by design, with all the computes on the edge device. We believe that families shouldn't have to jeopardize their privacy just to get some help with the constant drudgery of home chores.

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