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title: 'Mechanical Design Engineer Intern at Matic'
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# Mechanical Design Engineer Intern at Matic

- **Company:** Matic
- **Location:** Menlo Park, CA
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/MaticRobots/4b9f178f-5346-443d-899e-4d8a76372517

## Job description

Company Overview Each year, 2.5 trillion hours are spent on household chores. At Matic, we’re on a mission to recapture that lost time, and we’re doing it by revolutionizing home robotics. Our first product, also called Matic, is a Wall-E-esque floor cleaning robot. We've built what amounts to "full self-driving in the home” with real-time 3D mapping, adaptive path-tracking, and a precise semantic understanding of the home. Our breakthroughs in spatial AI allow Matic to work reliably in real homes, using only RGB cameras and neural networks running on-device.

Privacy First What happens in the home, stays in the home. Our robots are private by design, with all data processing performed by the robot itself, not in the cloud.

Our Approach Before the iPhone, consumers adopted several distinct devices; cell phones, PDAs, and portable music players each served a particular need. We believe in a similar progression for home robotics, starting with single-purpose robots and building iteratively toward more complex capabilities over time.

Our Culture Matic is a tight-knit and collaborative team, singularly focused on building products our customers will cherish. We're ultra-hardworking people committed to solving tough problems that save precious time and energy.

## About the role

You'll own parts and sub-assemblies with support from experienced engineers, contributing from concept through high volume production. Our robots are shipping to customers today, which means the parts you work on get tooled, built at volume, and used daily in someone's home. You'll have the opportunity to see your work in the field within months, not years. This is an internship for someone who wants to get their hands on real hardware immediately and build the judgment that comes from watching designs succeed and fail in production.

## What you'll do

- Design parts and sub-assemblies within a defined architecture, and help carry them through to mass production
- Build your own prototypes, break them, and iterate fast
- Run component level testing for performance, durability, and part to part variability
- Help write and execute accelerated test plans that predict field behavior
- Create production-ready 2D drawings with guidance and review from the team
- Work with engineers, vendors, and CMs on DFM feedback, tooling reviews, and first article inspection
- Collaborate with EE, firmware, software, and industrial design to keep your parts balanced against the rest of the system

## What we look for

- Parts or assemblies you personally designed and built through internships, project teams, research, or personal projects, and the ability to explain your design decisions
- Familiarity with high volume manufacturing processes such as injection molding, die casting, stamping, or metal injection molding, and an interest in learning how they shape a design
- An understanding of tolerances and how individual part dimensions affect an assembly
- Familiarity with engineering drawings and basic GD&T
- SolidWorks proficiency and experience using CAD to build real hardware
- A hands-on approach to prototyping, testing, and troubleshooting
- An ability to reason from a failure back to a possible design or manufacturing cause
- Comfort in a fast-paced startup where the answer is often “go build it and find out”

Currently pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering or a related technical field, or demonstrating equivalent hands-on experience. Prior experience with FEA, PDM/PLM, or production hardware is a plus, but not required.

Engineering Culture at Matic We're a small team building a hard product. The work doesn't sort itself into a clean design lane. During your internship, you'll work on concepts and CAD. You'll also build test fixtures, run tolerance studies, troubleshoot life tests, tear down returned units, update drawings, and learn how parts move from a design to a production line. None of that is beneath the job. All of it is the job, and most of it is where you'll get good. Our engineers own their parts from the first sketch to the last field failure, including every unglamorous step in between. As an intern, you'll take on meaningful pieces of that work with support and feedback from the team. We keep design, testing, supplier work, and documentation together on purpose, because that's how you build the judgment to design something that actually survives a home. The same goes past your own scope. If a fixture in the lab is broken, if data needs cleaning, if a different subsystem is blocking the build, people here move toward it. Scope is how we plan the work, not how we decide what's ours. That's the shape of the team we're building. Being excited about a particular kind of engineering is great and we want that. But the people who've done the most for this company are the ones who wanted Matic to win first and picked up whatever that took.

We'd love to hear from you if...

- You are genuinely motivated to help those around you
- You are passionate about learning outside your normal comfort zones
- You love diagnosing complex technical issues
- You take pride in details nobody else would notice

## Compensation

Base: $25- $35/hour.

Actual Compensation will depend on skills, experience, and qualifications.

## About Matic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Matic builds a fully autonomous, AI-powered floor-cleaning robot that uses photorealistic 3D vision to vacuum and mop homes with zero human intervention.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; $112.5M total funding; latest round: Venture Round in September 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Mehul Nariyawala (co-founder) and another co-founder (name not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics Engineering / Consumer Home Robotics
- **Target customers**: B2C – homeowners seeking a premium, hands-free floor-cleaning solution
- **Mission / Purpose**: "Reimagining the next generation of fully autonomous, helpful, and elegant home robots using AI and computer vision" – aiming for Level-5 autonomy in the home.

## Products & Services
- **Matic Robot**: A floor-cleaning robot that combines vacuuming and mopping in one device. Key features include:
  - Continual photorealistic 3D mapping for precise navigation
  - Zero-stuck obstacle avoidance (detects wires and obstacles >1 inch)
  - Works on all home surfaces, including shag rugs
  - Auto-toggles between mopping and vacuuming
  - Quiet enough for work or nap time
  - In-app scheduling, spot-cleaning, and room prioritization
  - Secure, on-device vision processing (no cloud dependency)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$112.5M** across 3 rounds (Seed 2019: $5.6M led by Matt Rogers; Series A 2023: $24M; Venture Round 2025: $77.3M)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Matt Rogers (seed lead); other investors include a mix of venture firms (exact names not publicly detailed in available sources)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **115% YoY** to 146 employees (as of mid-2026)
  - Website traffic up **195% YoY** (61,992 monthly visits)
  - 23 active job postings (up 109% YoY)
  - Strong talent pipeline from Tesla, Apple, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon

## Competitive Advantages
- **True visual perception**: Matic uses photorealistic 3D mapping and computer vision to understand the home like a human, unlike competitors that rely on simpler sensors.
- **Zero-stuck, proactive cleaning**: The robot continuously maps and detects obstacles in real time, avoiding common failure modes of other robots.
- **Quiet operation**: Designed to be unobtrusive during work or sleep.
- **All-surface capability**: Handles both hard floors and carpets (including shag) without manual switching.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling manufacturing and engineering to meet demand (active hiring in hardware, firmware, software, and quality roles)
- Expanding autonomy capabilities (Level-5 goal) and refining the consumer experience
- Building a strong in-office engineering team in Mountain View

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Tight-knit, collaborative, and ultra-hardworking team focused on product excellence. Employer rating of **4.5/5** (34 reviews) on LinkedIn, with high marks for culture (4.5) and career growth (4.2).
- **Work Policy**: **In-office** (Mountain View, CA). Employees work from physical offices; typical time on-site is full-time.
- **Perks & Benefits** (per Built In and LinkedIn):
  - Competitive compensation and company equity
  - 401(k) retirement plan
  - Generous PTO and paid parental leave
  - Health, dental, and vision insurance
  - Family medical leave
- **Engineering Culture**: 45% of staff in technical roles; heavy concentration of talent from top robotics and tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Stanford, CMU). Active research and development in AI, computer vision, and embedded systems.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Rapidly scaling company (115% headcount growth) with 23 open positions across engineering, manufacturing, and design – offering significant impact and career acceleration.

## Sources
1. [maticrobots.com](https://maticrobots.com/)
2. [maticrobots.com/careers](https://maticrobots.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/maticrobots](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maticrobots)
4. [builtin.com/company/matic-robots](https://builtin.com/company/matic-robots)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/maticrobots](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Maticrobots)

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