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# Senior Mechanical Engineer (On-site) at Standard Bots

- **Company:** Standard Bots
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$195k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-01
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/standardbots/6ebc3be6-4601-4ac9-82be-c30cc79d69f9

## Job description

## About Standard Bots

At Standard Bots, we're revolutionizing real-world automation by making robotic systems accessible to everyone. Our AI-powered platform enables robots to tackle unprecedented challenges through an intuitive instruction interface, bringing the power of software automation to physical spaces.

## What you'll do

We're building Bolt, a mobile manipulation platform: an autonomous mobile base carrying our robot arms. We're hiring two Senior Mechanical Engineers to own major subsystems of that platform. These include: the chassis, drivetrain and suspension, wheel modules, battery mounting, the control box, compute, and safety hardware, with its thermal management, cabling, and service access. You'll take your subsystem from concept through prototype builds, test, and production release, and work hands-on in the shop and lab. 📍 Location This is an on-site role based at our new Boston-area office, where Bolt is designed, built, and tested, with some flexibility on days in the office once you're up to speed. On-site you'll have a build area, electronics lab, test floor, and production robots steps from your desk.

## Responsibilities

- Own the design of Bolt subsystems from requirements through production release: concept, detailed design, analysis, drawings, and release
- Run the trade studies that set your subsystem's architecture — structure and material choices, stiffness and fatigue targets, thermal and IP strategy, serviceability, cost — and close them with EE, software, and safety
- Do the hands-on work: SolidWorks design, hand calcs and FEA, tolerance stackups, DFM for sheet metal, castings, machined parts, weldments, and plastics; build and test your own prototypes
- Define and run subsystem tests (static and dynamic loads, vibration, drop, thermal, ingress) and feed results back into the design
- Be the technical contact for your subsystem's fabricators; drive DFM/DFA feedback and support production issues
- Lead design reviews for your subsystem and mentor junior engineers

## Who you are

You've shipped electromechanical hardware that lives in the real world — a mobile robot, vehicle, industrial machine, or similar — and you know the difference between a design that passes FEA and one that survives a year on a warehouse floor. You like owning a subsystem end to end and being judged on the hardware. Our ideal candidate expects to spend roughly 60% of their time on design and analysis and 40% on builds, test, and manufacturing support.

## Skills you'll bring

- Experience: Bachelor's or graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering (or related) and 5+ years designing, building, and testing electromechanical products, including designs you've taken through production release
- Mechanical Depth: Strong in structures and mechanisms — load paths, stiffness and fatigue, bearings and drivetrain components, fasteners and joints, tolerance analysis
- Manufacturing: DFM for sheet metal, castings, machining, weldments, and injection molding; you know what each process costs and where it fails
- Analysis: Hand calcs first, FEA when it earns its keep; you can size a part and defend the numbers
- Tool Fluency: Proficient in SolidWorks (parts, large assemblies, drawings, simulation) and a PDM/PLM release process
- Clarity of Communication: Clear design documentation, crisp trade studies, and design reviews that make your peers better
- Impact Driven: A reliable, manufacturable part that ships beats an elegant one that never leaves the lab
- Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You thrive in a fast-moving team with changing requirements and tight timelines

Bonus points for

- Chassis focus: AMR/AGV, vehicle, or drivetrain design; suspension and wheel module design; caster and tire selection; stability analysis
- Control box focus: thermal management of power electronics and compute, cable and harness routing, EMC-aware mechanical design
- Battery pack packaging and thermal management
- Safety certification exposure (ISO 3691-4, ANSI/RIA R15.08, ISO 13849)

## Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $150,000 to $195,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.

## About Standard Bots

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Standard Bots is an American AI-native industrial robot manufacturer that builds affordable, easy-to-use six-axis robot arms designed and assembled in the USA.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Glen Cove, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Evan Beard (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Industrial Robotics / Manufacturing / AI
- **Target customers**: B2B — small to large businesses in manufacturing, machining, warehousing, and industrial automation
- **Mission**: "Propel human productivity through the world’s most accessible robots."

## Products & Services
- **Bolt**: Entry-level six-axis robot arm (900mm reach, 8kg payload) starting at $29,500. Designed for light-duty automation in tight spaces — pick & place, inspection, and assembly.
- **Spark**: Mid-range workhorse robot (1,300mm reach, 18kg payload) starting at $39,500. Built for machining, welding, finishing, pick & place, and inspection.
- **Thor**: Heavy-duty robot (2,000mm reach, 18kg payload) starting at $49,500. Includes Miller Auto Delta Weld package for welding applications. Built for bimanual tasks, palletizing, and heavy applications.
- **AI-Native Control Platform**: Robots are programmed through demonstration (no code, no PhD required). Foundation models generalize across variations. Real-time AI-driven torque control. Pre-built playbooks for common tasks, native integrations, simulator, and remote access dashboards.
- **Vision-Guided Inspection**: Automated defect detection with vision-guided checks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Private company; funding details not publicly available
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding manufacturing operations with goal to produce everything "from metal in to robots out" in America by 2027. Actively hiring across multiple engineering and operations roles. Growing product line with three distinct robot models (Bolt, Spark, Thor).

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: First industrial robot joints designed for real-time AI-driven torque control; robots learn through demonstration rather than complex programming — "no PhD required."
- **Cost leadership**: Starting at $29,500, significantly cheaper than legacy industrial robot solutions while claiming 3x faster performance.
- **Vertical integration**: Designs nearly every part and assembles every final product in-house in Glen Cove, NY. Goal to manufacture everything in America by 2027.
- **Ease of use**: Program complex routines from a tablet; pre-built playbooks; no-code interface; vision-guided inspection with ±0.1 Nm repeatability.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling domestic manufacturing to full vertical integration (metal in to robots out) by 2027.
- Expanding AI capabilities with foundation models that generalize across unseen variations.
- Growing product line to cover light-duty (Bolt), mid-range (Spark), and heavy-duty (Thor) applications.
- Building out software, firmware, and AI teams to deepen the "AI-native" robotics platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven environment focused on "making tomorrow easier" through accessible robotics. Emphasis on hardware, software, firmware, and electronics integration.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid — employees typically work on-site 3 days a week. Offices in Glen Cove, NY; NYC; and Seattle.
- **Team Size**: ~130 total employees, ~25 in Product + Tech.
- **Engineering Focus**: Roles span embedded systems, motion planning, full-stack, firmware, AI research, and core platform engineering. Technology stack includes modern robotics and AI tooling.
- **Growth Stage**: Early-stage, fast-growing company (founded 2020) with significant manufacturing expansion plans. Opportunity to shape both product and culture.

## Sources
1. [standardbots.com](https://standardbots.com/)
2. [standardbots.com/about](https://standardbots.com/about)
3. [standardbots.com/careers](https://standardbots.com/careers)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/standard-bots)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/StandardBots)

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