Full-Time

Mechatronics Engineer

Innate

Innate

1-10 employees

Autonomous home robots taught by demonstration

No salary listed

Palo Alto, CA, USA + 1 more

More locations: San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA

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Category
Hardware Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Python
Supply Chain Management
Injection Molding
C/C++

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Requirements
  • Build and ship products and work confidently on mass consumer products.
  • Design printed circuit boards, including high-speed digital and power electronics.
  • Use computer-aided design and rapid prototyping.
  • Develop firmware using embedded C and microcontrollers.
  • Code and debug in C and Python.
Responsibilities
  • Design and build the physical systems that make the robots work, including electronics, mechanics, firmware, and related systems.
  • Think about and design the product with the rest of the team while staying close to customers' needs.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with manufacturing processes including computer numerical control machining, sheet metal, and injection molding.
  • Experience with radio frequency or high-speed signal integrity work.
  • Experience ordering parts, managing a bill of materials, and navigating a supply chain.
  • Experience with field-programmable gate arrays.

Innate creates teachable, autonomous home robots that builders can train through demonstration. The robots learn new tasks in about 30 minutes and then operate on their own in home environments; Maurice is the initial unit shipping in Winter 2025. Unlike traditional programmable robots, Innate emphasizes rapid, demonstration-based learning aimed at home integration and scalable data collection for future services. The goal is to make robots a routine part of daily life and extend their use to infrastructure, environmental work, and disaster relief by 2030, supported by data-driven offerings.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$130K

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2024

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Innate sold early units at $2,000, proving demand from experimental builders.
  • RoboHacks in April 2026 put 120 builders on 25 MARS robots.
  • Hiring for mechatronics and robot learning signals productization beyond prototype-stage demos.

What critics are saying

  • Innate raised only $500K pre-seed; cash crunch hits before Winter 2025 shipments.
  • Robot hardware delays or failures can kill trust before Maurice reaches paying builders.
  • Open-source and better-funded robotics rivals can copy the builder-focused workflow quickly.

What makes Innate unique

  • Innate's Maurice teaches behaviors in under 30 minutes, unlike scripted home robots.
  • The company targets builders first, combining a $2,000 robot with SDK access.
  • Innate ships with a programmable foundation agent and autonomous real-world control.

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