Mechanical Engineer - Testing and Sustaining (On-Site)

At Standard Bots, we're revolutionizing real-world automation by making robotic systems accessible to everyone. Our AI-powered platform enables robots to tackle unprecedented challenges through an intuitive instruction interface, bringing the power of software automation to physical spaces.

Responsibilities

• Product Maintenance and Improvement: Proactively identify and address issues in current robotic arms and grippers to enhance reliability, performance, and user satisfaction. Use Solidworks to implement design changes that improve product durability, ease of assembly, and cost, without compromising functionality.

• Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis: Employ a deep understanding of engineering principles to diagnose failures in our robotic systems. Develop and implement solutions to recurring problems by conducting thorough root cause analysis and deploying corrective actions that prevent future occurrences.

• Lifecycle Management: Monitor and extend the lifecycle of robotic systems through strategic updates and upgrades. Manage the phase-out of obsolete components and integrate new, more efficient parts without disrupting product functionality.

• Documentation and Process Improvement: Update and maintain comprehensive documentation, including BOMs, assembly procedures, and inspection plans. Recommend and implement process improvements to streamline production and assembly lines. Manage any ongoing changes in PDM/PLM systems.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with design engineers, manufacturing, procurement, and other departments to ensure product and process optimization. Participate in cross-functional teams to address and resolve engineering issues.

• Test Planning and Execution: Assist in developing test plans and executing validation activities (functional, durability/lifetime, environmental, and abuse testing). Coordinate test setup, instrumentation, and data collection with technicians and other engineers.

• Failure Analysis from Testing: Investigate test failures using structured root cause methods (e.g., fault trees, 5-Whys). Document findings, drive corrective actions, and verify fixes through re-test.

• Validation of Design Changes: Ensure sustaining design changes are appropriately verified and validated, including running regression tests to confirm no unintended impacts to performance, safety, manufacturability, or serviceability.

• Data-Driven Reliability Improvements: Analyze test and field data to identify trends, quantify reliability improvements, and prioritize sustaining work based on risk, customer impact, and recurrence.

• Test Documentation: Maintain clear test documentation including test procedures, reports, deviation records, and validation summaries. Contribute to inspection plans and quality criteria based on test learnings.

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.

• 0–4 years of experience in sustaining engineering, test engineering, or product engineering for electromechanical systems, preferably in robotics, automation, or consumer hardware.

• Proficiency in SolidWorks (part/assembly modeling, drawings, and design changes).

• Hands-on experience developing and executing test plans (environmental, durability, mechanical shock, lifecycle testing).

• Demonstrated ability to perform structured root cause analysis (fishbone, 5-Whys, fault tree) and drive corrective actions to closure.

• Working knowledge of GD&T, tolerance analysis, and DFM/DFA principles.

• Experience with PDM/PLM systems and engineering change management processes.

• Familiarity with statistical tools for reliability analysis (Weibull, Pareto, Cpk) is a plus.

• Experience with instrumentation and data acquisition (load cells, accelerometers, DAQ systems) is a plus.

The expected annual base compensation for this role is $80,000 – $135,000 USD. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling, as well as positioning within a level, is determined by a range of factors, including, but not limited to, a candidate's relevant years of experience, domain knowledge, and interview performance.

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.