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Menlo Park, California, United States
Onsite
Each year, 2.5 trillion hours are spent on household chores. At Matic, we’re on a mission to recapture that lost time, and we’re doing it by revolutionizing home robotics.
Our first product, also called Matic, is a Wall-E-esque floor cleaning robot. We've built what amounts to "full self-driving in the home” with real-time 3D mapping, adaptive path-tracking, and a precise semantic understanding of the home. Our breakthroughs in spatial AI allow Matic to work reliably in real homes, using only RGB cameras and neural networks running on-device.
What happens in the home, stays in the home. Our robots are private by design, with all data processing performed by the robot itself, not in the cloud.
Before the iPhone, consumers adopted several distinct devices; cell phones, PDAs, and portable music players each served a particular need. We believe in a similar progression for home robotics, starting with single-purpose robots and building iteratively toward more complex capabilities over time.
Matic is a tight-knit and collaborative team, singularly focused on building products our customers will cherish. We're ultra-hardworking people committed to solving tough problems that save precious time and energy.
You'll own parts and sub-assemblies with support from experienced engineers, contributing from concept through high volume production. Our robots are shipping to customers today, which means the parts you work on get tooled, built at volume, and used daily in someone's home. You'll have the opportunity to see your work in the field within months, not years.
This is an internship for someone who wants to get their hands on real hardware immediately and build the judgment that comes from watching designs succeed and fail in production.
What you'll do
Design parts and sub-assemblies within a defined architecture, and help carry them through to mass production
Build your own prototypes, break them, and iterate fast
Run component level testing for performance, durability, and part to part variability
Help write and execute accelerated test plans that predict field behavior
Create production-ready 2D drawings with guidance and review from the team
Work with engineers, vendors, and CMs on DFM feedback, tooling reviews, and first article inspection
Collaborate with EE, firmware, software, and industrial design to keep your parts balanced against the rest of the system
What we look for
Parts or assemblies you personally designed and built through internships, project teams, research, or personal projects, and the ability to explain your design decisions
Familiarity with high volume manufacturing processes such as injection molding, die casting, stamping, or metal injection molding, and an interest in learning how they shape a design
An understanding of tolerances and how individual part dimensions affect an assembly
Familiarity with engineering drawings and basic GD&T
SolidWorks proficiency and experience using CAD to build real hardware
A hands-on approach to prototyping, testing, and troubleshooting
An ability to reason from a failure back to a possible design or manufacturing cause
Comfort in a fast-paced startup where the answer is often “go build it and find out”
Currently pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering or a related technical field, or demonstrating equivalent hands-on experience. Prior experience with FEA, PDM/PLM, or production hardware is a plus, but not required.
Engineering Culture at Matic
We're a small team building a hard product. The work doesn't sort itself into a clean design lane.
During your internship, you'll work on concepts and CAD. You'll also build test fixtures, run tolerance studies, troubleshoot life tests, tear down returned units, update drawings, and learn how parts move from a design to a production line.
None of that is beneath the job. All of it is the job, and most of it is where you'll get good.
Our engineers own their parts from the first sketch to the last field failure, including every unglamorous step in between. As an intern, you'll take on meaningful pieces of that work with support and feedback from the team. We keep design, testing, supplier work, and documentation together on purpose, because that's how you build the judgment to design something that actually survives a home.
The same goes past your own scope. If a fixture in the lab is broken, if data needs cleaning, if a different subsystem is blocking the build, people here move toward it. Scope is how we plan the work, not how we decide what's ours.
That's the shape of the team we're building. Being excited about a particular kind of engineering is great and we want that. But the people who've done the most for this company are the ones who wanted Matic to win first and picked up whatever that took.
We'd love to hear from you if...
You are genuinely motivated to help those around you
You are passionate about learning outside your normal comfort zones
You love diagnosing complex technical issues
You take pride in details nobody else would notice
Base: $25- $35/hour.
Actual Compensation will depend on skills, experience, and qualifications.