Robotics Hardware Industrialization Engineer, Deepmind

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The Embodied Systems team within Deepmind Robotics is seeking a Robotics Hardware Industrialization Engineer to bridge the gap between robotics research goals and scalable data collection in a laboratory environment. This role involves transforming advanced research testing concepts into actionable designs and processes for data collection humanoid laboratories, optimizing robot operations, reducing costs, and ensuring system reliability. The engineer will be the first point of contact for test cell design and an authority on process control and DFM/DFX approaches, working with cross-functional teams to define functional hardware and processes for a productive and scalable laboratory environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with the Research, Engineering, Facilities and Safety teams, concept-out testing hardware, systems, environments and fixtures to enable effective testing and reliable data-collection.
  2. Lead the transition of a research goal into an industrialized concept that can be prototyped and manufactured in a testing laboratory environment.
  3. Create detailed work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and bill of materials (BOM) for testing and development systems and structures.
  4. Design and implement assembly fixtures, calibration rigs, and automated test equipment for our data collection and hardware development laboratories.
  5. Partner with vendors to resolve technical challenges and extended workforce testing/development/fabrication needs.

Skills

Required

  • Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field
  • 6 years in experience in hardware design, fleet maintenance, robotics service, or high-tech field engineering
  • Experience in design engineering and use of associated CAD tools (OnShape, SolidWorks or similar 3D parametric CAD packages)
  • Experience writing technical manuals, SOPs, or maintenance logs for a wider team

Nice to have

  • Comfortable working in a lab/warehouse setting and managing physical assets, driving for excellence in a 5S methodology setting
  • Passion for robotics
  • A mechanical intuition for identifying root causes of hardware failure in the field

What the JD emphasized

  • first point of contact for any test cell design-related topics
  • authority on process control and DFM (Design For Manufacture)/DFX (Design For excellence) approaches

Other signals

  • robotics research
  • data collection
  • hardware operations
  • industrialization