Senior Hardware Engineer

Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like stocking shelves, inbounding goods and sorting stock, currently mostly overnight. They're driven from our control room in Stockholm and increasingly run on their own. We raised a €1.92M pre-seed in August 2026 and are live with retailers in Sweden and Finland. We're a small team based at Sankt Eriksgatan in Stockholm, where half the office is our own dark store.

About the role

We design and assemble our own robot platform in-house. It’s CE-marked and working in customer stores, and it’s far from done. Hardware is where we need to level up the most, and you’ll own it: how the robot looks, how well it’s built, and how it gets produced at scale. From concept and CAD through prototyping and 3D printing to manufacturing and assembly. You’ll see your work running in stores within weeks.

What you’ll do

• Own the robot’s design: concept and visualize new products and subsystems

• Take designs from CAD and rapid prototyping through to manufacturing and assembly, iterating from what you see in stores

• Apply solid hardware fundamentals: GD&T, tolerances, tooling, material selection

• Set the quality bar for what ships and what doesn’t

What we’re looking for

• A track record of taking a physical product from concept to production. It exists in the real world, not just in renders

• High taste: in how the product looks, and in where the bar sits for what’s acceptable

• High agency: you spot the problem and ship the fix without being told

• Pragmatic in a fast-moving environment: you know when to polish and when it just has to work for tomorrow’s demo

• Fluent in English

How to apply: Share a portfolio if you have one. If your past work is under NDA, a short description of 1–2 products you took to production works just as well.

Why join

• A founding role with ownership of the hardware

• Meaningful equity and a competitive salary

• See your designs running in real stores within weeks

• Shape the next version of the robot