Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
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Job overview
Feather Robotics is seeking a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to own mechanical design for a humanoid platform product, from architecture through deployed units. The role focuses on taking products from concept into volume production within a tight-knit team. Feather is a VC-backed startup building general-purpose robots, with units deployed in food service, retail, manufacturing, and other fields.
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About the job We’re looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer with 4+ years of industry experience taking products from concept into volume production. You’ll own the mechanical design of a novel, top-secret product for our humanoid platform end to end, from architecture to deployed units, within a tight-knit team that has been shipping robots for the past year.
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 seven figures in orders in less than two years. Our units are deployed across several fields today, including food service, retail, manufacturing, and more.
What we’re looking for
- 4+ years of industry experience in mechanical product design – you have taken at least one product or major subsystem you personally designed into volume production
- Hands-on robotics experience – you have built a robot or other complex electromechanical system before
- Deep DFM experience at volume (e.g., injection molding, sheet metal, die casting, machining)
- Experience working directly with suppliers and contract manufacturers
- Expert CAD and rapid prototyping
- GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, and structural analysis
- Early-stage hardware startup experience is a plus
- Software fluency is a plus
- Documentation and technical writing
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or a related engineering 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
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- Northrop Grumman8 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Mechanical Design Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (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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