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San Francisco, California, United States
Onsite
We're building a helpful robot for every home.
We're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.
Our team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.
All roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:
Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.
Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.
High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.
You’ll design the mechanical systems, structures, and mechanisms that bring our robots to life. This role is for someone with exceptional mechanical intuition, the ability to prototype rapidly, and a track record of shipping reliable hardware at scale.
Extremely strong mechanical intuition — you understand how parts, forces, tolerances, and mechanisms behave instinctively.
Ability to design and prototype on aggressive timelines, moving quickly from concept to functional hardware.
Experience building reliable products that shipped at scale, with a clear understanding of manufacturing constraints and real-world robustness.
Experience working directly with contract manufacturers (CMs) and personally designing components for volume processes:
Injection molding
Die casting
Stamping / sheet metal
Extrusion
Powder metal / MIM
Deep experience designing custom mechanisms and actuators, from kinematics and linkage design to motor selection, gearing, and tolerancing.
Proven ability to own complex electro-mechanical systems with moving parts, integrating mechanical, electrical, and firmware constraints into a cohesive design.
Own mechanical design for core subsystems, from initial concept through high-volume production.
Prototype rapidly and iterate based on real-world testing and failure analysis.
Design custom mechanisms, actuators, and assemblies for high-performance robotic behavior.
Collaborate closely with electrical, firmware, and manufacturing teams to integrate full electro-mechanical systems.
Drive DFM, tolerance analysis, material selection, and vendor coordination for volume manufacturing.
Move quickly and independently to deliver robust, production-ready hardware.
You’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here.