Mechanical Design Engineer Intern
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Feather Robotics is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer Intern to develop mechanical components and assemblies for a humanoid robot, taking designs from concept through production. The intern will prototype, test, and iterate on real hardware while integrating control software. The role requires in-person work in the San Francisco Bay Area and a start within the next 3–4 weeks.
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Note: You must be able to start this role in-person in the SF Bay Area within the next 3-4 weeks.
About the job We're looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer Intern to create a novel, top-secret product for our humanoid platform, taking it from CAD to deployed reality within a tight-knit team that has been shipping units 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 (vs. 31 months for Figure), and working with a $4B revenue manufacturer. 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
- Recently graduated with a B.S. or higher in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
- Hands-on robotics experience – you have built a robot or other complex electromechanical system before
- 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
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
- Opportunity to convert to full-time available for top performers
How this job compares
Set against the 752 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$125–171K/yr155 salary ranges
- US median$40–54/hr77 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 192 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs in California and 752 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- Mechanical Design Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 6 years (633 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 481 of the 752 open Mechanical Design Engineer jobs (64%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 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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