Website:
teleautonomy.ai
Job details:
Company Description:
TeleAutonomy is an early-stage robotics company building hardware for the home.
The mechanical problems are the hard part: compact actuation, compliant manipulators that are safe around people, end effectors that handle real objects, and structures that survive years of daily use in something people are willing to live with.
We build our core hardware in house. The team is small and the architecture is not yet fixed.
You will own mechanical systems across the platform : arms, joints, end effectors, structures and motion mechanisms.
This is a hands-on product development role, across the entire lifecycle:
- Specify and integrate actuation for multi-DoF joints, sizing against torque, speed, thermal and duty-cycle requirements
- We expect you to build what you draw and understand why it breaks.
- Design structural and transmission interfaces around joint modules
- Establish the actuation and stiffness budget for the arm, resolving the trade between distal mass, reach, payload and joint transparency
- Design the arm structure and link geometry against workspace, payload, stiffness, mass and collision-safety constraints
- Develop end effectors for everyday objects, with compliance, force transmission and tactile sensing integrated from the outset
- Design multi-stage travel mechanisms and linkages carrying significant off-axis load
- Integrate cameras, sensors, electronics, harnessing and thermal solutions into constrained volumes, with routing designed for flex life and service access
- Perform FEA and structural analysis on critical assemblies
- Apply GD&T, tolerance stack-up, DFM and DFA throughout
- Design test rigs to characterise backlash, stiffness, fatigue and thermal behaviour
- Prototype via CNC, sheet metal and additive manufacturing
- Work with vendors and manufacturing partners from prototype quantities toward production
- Own production CAD, drawings, BOMs and engineering change documentation
Requirements
- 3–5 years designing robotic, mechatronic or complex electromechanical systems
- Ability to reason from first principles rather than from simulation or precedent alone, particularly on torque density, reflected inertia, backlash, stiffness and thermal limits
- Fluency in SolidWorks, Creo, CATIA, NX, Fusion 360 or equivalent
- Practical experience with motors, gearboxes, bearings, shafts, encoders and transmissions
- FEA, GD&T and tolerance stack-up analysis
- Working knowledge of CNC machining, injection moulding, sheet metal, casting and additive manufacturing
- A track record of hardware that shipped or ran, not designs that stayed in CAD
- Comfortable assembling systems, diagnosing failures and iterating quickly
- Able to work closely with electrical, controls, firmware and software engineers
Nice to Have
- Humanoid or collaborative robotic systems
- Harmonic, cycloidal or quasi-direct-drive transmissions
- Series elastic and compliant mechanisms
- Electromechanical products taken through to volume manufacture
What Success Looks Like
Within a year, mechanisms you designed should be running in hardware outside the lab, with measurable gains in payload, reach, reliability, manufacturability and cost across generations.
The architecture is still open : joint layout, hand geometry, how the system holds up over years of use. Decisions made in the next twelve months will be difficult to reverse.
If you have been building robots and want your mechanical judgement to carry that weight, we should talk.
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