Dexmate
Mechanical & Durability Test Engineer
Fremont Office · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 4, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years.
- Education
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
About the job
Own hands-on mechanical validation and durability testing of Dexmate robots, from test planning and fixture building through failure analysis and ship/no-ship recommendations.
What you'll do
- Define and execute mechanical, durability, and environmental tests across components, subsystems, and full robots; instrument tests and analyze results.
- Build test fixtures, investigate failures, identify root causes, and verify corrective actions.
- Translate test results into reliability assessments and shipping recommendations; coordinate with suppliers, labs, technicians, and design engineers.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of hands-on mechanical test, validation, or reliability engineering experience in robotics, automotive, aerospace, industrial equipment, or consumer hardware.
- Hands-on experience with shop tools, test setup construction, instrumentation using strain gauges, load cells, and DAQ systems, and fatigue, durability, or accelerated life tests.
- Proficiency in CAD (SolidWorks, Onshape, or equivalent) for fixture design.
- Strong root-cause analysis skills and clear technical writing.
Nice to have
- Experience testing actuators, gearboxes, or legged/wheeled robots; environmental testing or reliability methods.
- Familiarity with FEA and test-to-simulation correlation, data-analysis tools, failure-analysis tools, or contract manufacturers and suppliers in Asia.
Tools
SolidWorks, Onshape, DAQ, FEA, CAE, Python, MATLAB, JMP
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