Mach Industries
Robotics Engineer, Hands
$100K–$175K
Huntington Beach, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- No minimum years required; preferred: 3+ years taking robotic or electromechanical hardware from concept through validation and deployment.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a listed or related engineering discipline; no equivalent-experience alternative stated.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations. Employment may be conditioned on export-control authorization without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Designs and integrates robotic hands for a consumer robotics program, developing mechanisms and controls for dexterous, reliable handling of everyday objects.
What you'll do
- Make architecture and component decisions with safety, manufacturability, reliability, and serviceability in mind; own mechanism decisions affecting dexterity, strength, and range of motion.
- Develop and tune hand controls for secure grasping and handling fragile or unfamiliar objects; integrate the hand system with cross-functional peers.
- Test reliability, investigate failures, and use experiments and analysis to guide design improvements.
What they ask for
- Experience designing robotic hand mechanisms and actuator control systems.
- Hands-on experience turning ideas into hardware and bridging theory and practice.
- Experience creating workable designs for ambiguous, open-ended problems.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, computer science, robotics, physics, or a related engineering discipline.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of experience taking robotic or electromechanical hardware from concept through validation and deployment.
- Experience with hand mechanisms, kinematics, dynamics, motion and force control, prototyping, hardware troubleshooting, FEA, or 3D CAD tools.
Pay
$100,000 — $135,000 USD (base salary); $135,000 — $175,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Onshape, SolidWorks, Creo, NX, CATIA, FEA, GD&T
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