Senior Mechanical Engineer
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Job overview
Pivot Robotics is hiring a Senior Mechanical Engineer. Pivot Robotics is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer with direct experience in robotic grinding, deburring, or surface finishing. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of abrasive processes, contact forces, and material removal, and will be comfortable working both in CAD and on the production floor. This role involves shaping cell construction, standardizing tooling, and solving complex finishing problems.
Key focus areas include Own the mechanical design of grinding and finishing cells, Solve real process problems, and Get on the floor.
Successful candidates bring Direct Experience With Robotic Grinding, Real Grasp Of Process, and Comfort With Force/Torque Control. Important skills include Mechanical Design, Material Removal, Surface Finish Targets, Wheel And Media Selection, Contact Mechanics, and Cycle Time Optimization. Preferred (not required): Foundry Exposure, Casting Exposure, Heavy Manufacturing Exposure, and Industrial Robot Integration.
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THE ROLE
We're looking for someone who already knows this problem. Not robotics in the abstract — the specific, gnarly reality of putting an abrasive against a metal part with a robot and getting a good result, repeatably, in a production environment. If you've wrestled with wheel wear, force control, fixturing that survives a foundry, cycle times that actually close a business case, and the thousand small failures between a clean demo and a cell that runs a shift unattended, you're who we want.
You'll shape how we build cells, what tooling we standardize on, and how we solve finishing problems we haven't seen yet.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
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Own the mechanical design of our grinding and finishing cells (end effectors, tool changers, force compliance, fixturing, dust and safety systems).
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Solve real process problems: material removal, surface-finish targets, wheel and media selection, contact mechanics, cycle time.
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Get on the floor, and have your designs constantly tested in production.
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Set the standard for how we approach new parts and new customers mechanically.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
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Direct experience with robotic grinding, deburring, or surface finishing. You've shipped or deeply worked on systems that drive a tool against a part.
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Real grasp of the process, not just the mechanism: abrasives, contact forces, material removal, finish quality.
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Comfort with force/torque control, compliance, and the sensing that makes finishing work (we run ATI sensors, Yaskawa and KUKA arms, Zivid vision).
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Someone who thrives in the field and on the floor, not only in CAD.
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The judgment to know what's good enough to ship and what isn't.
NICE TO HAVES
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Foundry, casting, or heavy-manufacturing exposure.
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Experience taking a cell from prototype to running-a-shift-unattended.
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Familiarity with industrial robot integration and machine safety systems.
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