Mechanical Design Engineer II
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Job overview
Feather Robotics is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to own a subsystem of a humanoid robot, taking it from initial concept through production and deployment. The hands-on role involves spending most of the time in CAD and on the bench, designing and testing real hardware within a small team. The company builds general-purpose robots and describes its platform as a foundation for an ecosystem of solutions.
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Full job description
About the job We’re looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer with 2-4 years of industry experience designing parts and assemblies that made it into production. You’ll own a subsystem of a novel, top-secret product for our humanoid platform, taking it from first sketch to deployed units within a tight-knit team that has been shipping robots for the past year. This is a hands-on design role, and you’ll spend most of your time in CAD and on the bench.
About Feather Feather is a VC-backed startup assembling a world-class team to build general-purpose robots. While competitors pursue end-to-end integration, we are focused on creating the best labor platform on which others will build, monetize, and scale, fostering an ecosystem of solutions akin to Apple’s or Nvidia’s.
We’ve moved through the hardware lifecycle at lightspeed -- building our first prototype in two months, fulfilling our first order in nine months, and reaching $1M in orders in under two years. Our units are deployed across several fields today, including cooking, retail, manufacturing, and more.
Responsibilities
- Design mechanical components and assemblies for humanoid robots, from concept through production
- Own design for manufacturability, prototyping quickly with 3D printing and machining before developing long-term processes and materials that scale
- Write and integrate control software for the mechanisms you design
- Build, test, iterate, and debug on real hardware
What we’re looking for
- 2-4 years of industry experience in mechanical product design (robotics, consumer electronics, automotive, aerospace or similar)
- Industry manufacturing experience (e.g., injection molding, DFM at volume) preferred
- Fluency with CAD and rapid prototyping
- Software fluency is a plus
- 3D printing proficiency
- GD&T
- Documentation and technical writing
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field
Why Join Us
- Be the architect of a novel humanoid platform instead of working on only one small fragment
- Shape the future of robotics and physical AI in a talented, driven team that values ownership, speed, and creativity
- We have the capital, the hardware ownership, and the generational upside to make this your life’s work
How this job compares
Set against the 733 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$125–171K/yr137 salary ranges
- US median$40–54/hr71 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 171 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs in California and 733 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- SpaceX13 open
- Anduril10 open
- Northrop Grumman8 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Mechanical Design Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 613 postings).
- Education
- 447 of the 733 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs (61%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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