Senior Mechanical Engineer

We are hiring a Mechanical Engineer

⏰ Start date: ASAP

📍Zürich, Switzerland (on-site, remote not possible)

🦾 Full-time (100%)

Loki Robotics’ mission is to make physical services an abundant commodity for everyone through robotics and physical AI. We build, deploy and operate expert robots with unique capabilities to automate commercial facility services at scale. We believe emergent capabilities in physical AI are unlocked by taking a straight shot to useful, performant robots deployed in the real world. We’re a tight team that takes initiative, operates with agency, and genuinely cares about doing outstanding work.

💼 Your role

You’ll ideate, design, manufacture, and deploy core mechanical systems on our robot. By joining the first team in the world desiging from first principles how a robot should clean commercial spaces, you are going to heavily rely on your creativity and determination to solve problems in unconventional ways.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build custom electromechanical systems from a robot arm and grippers to automatic tool changers, to a docking station

• Build cleaning-specific mechanical systems like cleaning end-effector tools and fluid systems

• Drive our HIL testing efforts to prove effectiveness and durability of our mechanical systems

• Contribute to the industrialization efforts required to manufacture hundreds of robots

🤖 You

What you should have:

• 3+ years in a professional Mechanical Engineering environment, preferably Robotics, Automotive, or Aerospace

• Strong CAD modeling experience (e.g. Onshape)

• Experience with metals and plastics manufacturing processes

• Experience in robotics actuation systems (e.g. BLDC motors, gearboxes, encoders, torque sensors)

• Experience in fluid systems (e.g. water pumps, valves, nozzles)

These skills are a plus:

• Experience building custom PCBs

• You have built articulated robots before (e.g. a robot arm or robot leg, quadruped, humanoid)

• You have contributed building a hardware product shipped in the hundreds of units to customers

• Experience writing basic software for test benches independently (Python, C++)

Don't worry if you don't hit every check-mark. We value people who learn fast and care about building great products. Just give it a go and apply.