Rhoda AI
Senior Design Engineer - Actuators
$175K–$250K
Mountain View · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of mechanical design experience, including at least one full-cycle product launch of precision electromechanical hardware.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
About the job
Own the mechanical design of robotic motors, gear trains, and actuator housings from concept through production, ensuring performance, manufacturability, cost, and reliability.
What you'll do
- Create CAD models and engineering drawings, including GD&T, datum strategies, and tolerance stack-ups.
- Coordinate suppliers and production builds; define test plans and support actuator characterization and design iteration.
- Integrate actuator components with modeling, test, electronics, controls, and systems teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of mechanical design experience, including at least one full-cycle product launch of precision electromechanical hardware.
- Strong machine design fundamentals, including bearings, gears, shafts, fits, fasteners, and rotating assemblies.
- Deep CAD proficiency and ability to define production tolerances and datum strategies; able to interpret structural, modal, and thermal FEA.
Nice to have
- CATIA; experience with harmonic, cycloidal, or precision planetary gear systems.
- PMSM/BLDC motor mechanical design, precision manufacturing, reliability engineering, or robotics/high-cycle actuator experience.
Pay
USD $175K – $250K base salary
Tools
CAD, CATIA, GD&T, FEA, PMSM/BLDC
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