Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
WE ARE HIRING A MECHANICAL ENGINEER
- ⏰ Start date: ASAP
- 📍Zürich, Switzerland (on-site, remote not possible)
- 🦾 Full-time (100%)
You’ll ideate, design, manufacture, and deploy core mechanical systems on our robot. By joining the first team in the world desiging from first principles how a robot should clean commercial spaces, you are going to heavily rely on your creativity and determination to solve problems in unconventional ways.
What you should have
- 3+ years in a professional Mechanical Engineering environment, preferably Robotics, Automotive, or Aerospace
- Strong CAD modeling experience (e.g. Onshape)
- Experience with metals and plastics manufacturing processes
- Experience in robotics actuation systems (e.g. BLDC motors, gearboxes, encoders, torque sensors)
- Experience in fluid systems (e.g. water pumps, valves, nozzles)
- Experience writing basic software for test benches independently (Python, C++)
Responsibilities
- Build custom electromechanical systems from a robot arm and grippers to automatic tool changers, to a docking station
- Build cleaning-specific mechanical systems like cleaning end-effector tools and fluid systems
- Drive our HIL testing efforts to prove effectiveness and durability of our mechanical systems
- Contribute to the industrialization efforts required to manufacture hundreds of robots
Requirements
These skills are a plus
- Experience building custom PCBs
- You have built articulated robots before (e.g. a robot arm or robot leg, quadruped, humanoid)
- You have contributed building a hardware product shipped in the hundreds of units to customers
Don't worry if you don't hit every check-mark. We value people who learn fast and care about building great products. Just give it a go and apply.
- Role:
- Senior Mechanical Engineer (Zürich, 100%)
- Job Type:
- FullTime
Company profile
Loki Robotics
lokirobotics.coLoki Robotics builds robots that keep facilities clean and functional, with the goal of saving people time. Its robot, Loki, is designed to clean like a person in high-contact, high-variation environments, swapping tools, applying cleaning agents with precision and physically interacting with fixtures and objects. The company describes its work as building an autonomous backbone for facilities, with tasks that include deep overnight restroom cleaning.