Mechanical Engineer Intern
Moss
Mechanical Engineer Intern
Moss
Autonomous field robots digitizing outdoor forests
At moss.inc, we are making the physical world searchable. Our sensor kits mount to vehicles our customers already drive, and turn every drive into a measured 3D record of their site, across agriculture, construction, and energy. Our AI models then parse through those 3D maps and decipher important information for each of our customers. We started with tree farms, where a single field holds millions of plants no human has ever fully inventoried. 🌲🤯🌳
We're a small team of practical engineers with a long-term vision. We focus on real, messy, on-the-ground problems today, while working toward a future where AI agents understand the physical world.
If our mission aligns with how you work and think, we'd love to learn more about you.
Join us as a Mechanical Engineering Intern on a fast-moving team of seven. Here, you’ll build things that actually get deployed. You’ll own projects across structural design, thermal performance, and packaging for our next-generation robotic sensor kits.
Be ready to work through the full hardware development cycle: concept CAD, rapid prototyping, FEA, DFM iteration, supplier coordination, assembly, and field validation in live farm environment.
We're looking for both a full time engineer, and intern candidates for co-ops, summer, and/or part-time roles.
Track record of hands-on personal projects (outside the classroom) demonstrating hardware skills
Demonstrated understanding of structural analysis and failure modes of complex mechanical systems
Proficiency in CAD software and FEA modeling
Solid understanding of GD&T
Comfortable making first-principles engineering trade-offs, even with partial information
Experience integrating sensors, compute, and/or power systems into physical assemblies
Comfortable building, assembling, and debugging physical hardware
Conceptualize new mechanical architectures for robotic systems in harsh environments
Lead design reviews internally and externally with suppliers and partners
Develop enclosure systems for thermal management, vibration resistance, and weather protection
Perform tolerance analysis and DFM reviews with manufacturing partners
Own prototype builds and field-test validation
Collaborate closely with perception, robotics, and electrical teams to optimize full-system integration
Moss builds autonomous field robots to digitize the outdoor world, starting with tree farms where millions of plants are hard to count. The robots move through harsh outdoor environments to map and inventory plants, collecting data that makes the physical world searchable. The product works by deploying mobile robots with sensors to traverse fields, capture imagery and measurements, and compile it into a searchable digital inventory. Moss differentiates itself by tackling real, messy on-the-ground problems with a small, practical engineering team and a long-term plan to expand to other outdoor tasks, not just software. The goal is to make dangerous outdoor jobs safer and easier by using autonomous robots that can operate where humans won't.
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