Principal Mechanical Engineer

Locus Robotics is a leader in the rapidly growing eCommerce order fulfillment optimization space. Our solution helps warehouse owners attain 2-3X efficiency improvement over cart-picking operations, by empowering pickers to work collaboratively with our robots. All this is accomplished while integrating with the operator’s Warehouse Management System, utilizing, and optimizing existing facility infrastructure.

We seek a Principal Mechanical Engineer to support current robot and accessory development. This position will work on various R&D initiatives regarding our current portfolio of robots. The candidate must be capable of a great deal of autonomy with respect to designing, fabricating, and testing new designs, as well as launching new products into production and supporting systems fielded at customer sites. Managing technical progress at contract manufacturers and their suppliers will be involved as well.

Job Description

• Take the inputs from both internal and external customers and generate sub-system requirements for new and existing robots.
• Utilize a set of requirements to design elegant solutions both quickly and carefully, independently preempting issues of manufacturability and future maintenance.
• Design, model, and detail draft elements of autonomous mobile robots and their supporting accessories using SolidWorks.
• Evaluate designs for strength, stiffness and long life, including fatigue analysis of static components and life estimation for bearings or gears.
• Design components and systems that reduce assembly effort; work with the operations team to verify these approaches and incorporate their feedback.
• Design individual components that can be manufactured in high volume at low cost while meeting functional requirements.
• Proactively engage with suppliers to determine competitive manufacturing strategies for new and existing designs.
• Work with manufacturing and procurement teams inside Locus Robotics to meet development and production timelines.
• Develop test plans for validation of designs.
• Accurately document work and present this work to peers, customers, and company leadership.
• Additional duties as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 10+ years’ experience designing mechanical and electromechanical products.
• Experience with custom machined parts.
• Experience with the design of thermoplastic components for volume production.
• Experience with the design of metallic components for volume production.
• Experience in the design of sheet metal components.
• Experience developing tolerance stack analyses.
• Familiarity with DFM and DFA practices.
• The ability to interpret and apply GD&T.
• Experience with prototyping methods used to accelerate development cycles.
• Experience with requirements development and evaluation against the same.
• Experience with hazard and risk analysis techniques, e.g. “What-if” or FMEA techniques.
• Excellent team player, with a hands-on approach and collaborative attitude.
• Effective verbal and written English communication skills.

Additional Information

Locus Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer