Senior Mechanical Engineer, Locus Robotics
$130-170k
5+ days a week in office (Wilmington, MA)
Autonomous robots for warehouses
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Autonomous robots for warehouses
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-170k
5+ days a week in office (Wilmington, MA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform commerce supply chains worldwide through the use of autonomous mobile robots.
Role
Who you are
- Onsite position is located at our Wilmington, MA headquarters, requiring five (5) days per week onsite. Only local candidates will be considered
- BSME or MSME with at least 7+ years of relevant industry experience
- Academic or hands-on experience in robotics, mechanical, or electromechanical design
- Familiarity with design for manufacturability (machined parts, sheet metal, castings, thermoplastics)
- Ability to design and execute experiments to validate robot performance
- Hands-on prototyping experience (machining, 3D printing, rapid iteration methods)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Working knowledge of GD&T and engineering drawing standards
- Experience generating RFQs and collaborating with suppliers
- Exposure to risk analysis methods (e.g., What-if analysis, FMEA)
- Collaborative, hands-on team player mindset
- Comfortable with occasional customer interaction
What the job involves
- Locus Robotics is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to support the development of our autonomous mobile robots and related accessories
- This role sits within the Hardware R&D group and focuses on design, analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to bring scalable, cost-effective hardware solutions to production
- Take the inputs from both internal and external customers and generate sub-system requirements for new and existing robots
- Design, model, and detail draft elements of autonomous mobile robots and their supporting accessories using SolidWorks
- Utilize a set of requirements to design elegant solutions both quickly and carefully, independently preempting issues of manufacturability and future maintenance
- Evaluate designs for strength, stiffness and long life, including fatigue analysis of static components and life estimation for bearings or gears
- Design components and systems that reduce assembly effort; work with the operations team to verify these approaches and incorporate their feedback
- Design individual components that can be manufactured in high volume at low cost while meeting functional requirements
- Proactively engage with suppliers to determine competitive manufacturing strategies for new and existing designs
- Build and test prototype and pre-production robots and subassemblies
- Work with manufacturing and procurement teams inside Locus Robotics to meet development and production timelines
- Develop test plans for verification and validation of designs
- Accurately document work and present this work to peers, customers, and company leadership
Our take
Many order fulfilment warehouses rely on a combination of human workers and machinery to operate packaging assembly lines. However, these workflows are time-consuming and repetitive, showing the potential for human workers to be replaced with AI-driven robots.
Locus Robotics provides automated robotic technologies for fulfilment warehouses, offering a range of different robots for different workflows. Every robot outputs data that can be tracked and analyzed, and they can be installed rapidly and scaled depending on business size.
Whilst robots in warehouses is not a new concept, they are generally limited to warehouse giants such as Amazon. Locus Robotics, however, has taken a flexible and accessible approach to its technology, aiming to increase access and affordability so that smaller businesses can scale.
Having picked over three billion items across its network of customers, the company is well established. It has also seen significant funding which has supported international expansion. In the longer term, it has plans to consider an IPO, as long as market conditions allow.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2022
$117m
SERIES F
Sep 2021
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $416m
Company benefits
- Career growth and personal development
- Flexible work environment (remote, hybrid or on-site)
- Competitive benefits and personal time off that are specific to the country in which you work
- Peer and company recognition programs
- Wellbeing and mental health resources
Company HQ
Wilmington, MA
Leadership
Rick Faulk
(CEO)Experience as CEO and Chairman of Intronis & Barracuda Networks from 2013 to 2016. CEO of Quiet Logistics from 2016 to 2018.
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