Matic Robots
Reliability Design Engineer - Motors, Mechanisms and Electronics
$120K–$200K
Menlo Park, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jun 27, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of hardware design engineering experience; experience on a physical product shipped in volume is described as ideal.
- Education
- Technical degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related hardware discipline.
About the job
Build and scale hardware test infrastructure to reproduce failures, validate motors, mechanisms, and electronics, and improve the reliability of home robots before they ship.
What you'll do
- Design, fabricate, and run electromechanical rigs and accelerated tests that reproduce field failures and stress designs.
- Integrate actuators, motor drivers, sensors, and data acquisition; automate test execution and data logging with scripts.
- Support failure analysis and collaborate across engineering, quality, production, and supply chain to guide design fixes and scale the reliability lab.
What they ask for
- Technical degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related hardware discipline.
- 2+ years of hardware design engineering experience.
- Ability to build, fabricate, and rapidly iterate physical prototypes and test setups; proficiency in CAD.
- Hands-on electromechanical skills and working proficiency with a scripting language such as Python.
Nice to have
- Experience with a physical product shipped in volume.
- Exposure to reliability and test concepts such as accelerated testing, fatigue, life testing, DOE, or FMEA.
Pay
$120,000 - $200,000 USD base salary
Tools
CAD, Python, actuators, motor drivers, sensors, data acquisition
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