- Robot type
- Warehouse and Logistics
- Location
- BerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Oct 30, 2026
- Salary
- $125,000–$150,000 a year
Full-time
Senior Project Engineer - Mechanical Systems
Job description
Ambi Robotics — Senior Project Engineer - Mechanical Systems (Berkeley, California).
Job responsibilities
- Own customer-specific robotic system deployments end to end, from initial requirements and concept through shipment and installation support
- Turn loose or incomplete customer requirements into a concrete engineering plan, identifying missing information, interface risks, and blockers early
- Develop complete, accurate, installation-ready system layouts and detailed designs in Onshape
- Create and maintain assemblies, drawings, BOMs, and manufacturing and installation documentation
- Drive procurement, vendor coordination, kitting, and production so every project is complete and ready to ship on schedule
- Coordinate mechanical, electrical, controls, facility, and deployment interfaces in partnership with Engineering, Product, Sales, Operations, and customers
- Use sound judgment to choose simple, proven solutions over unnecessary custom engineering, and know when to pull in additional engineering expertise
- Improve the scalability of customer engineering by turning recurring project needs into reusable components, templates, standards, and processes
Job requirements
- Eagerness to learn, solve challenging problems, and lead with curiosity
- A desire for career growth and ownership of your work, with a track record of driving projects through physical completion rather than stopping at design release
- A mechanical engineering background or equivalent experience, with strong mechanical intuition and a solid understanding of physical equipment and interfaces
- Proficiency in CAD-based mechanical design and system layout (Onshape preferred), including creating assemblies, drawings, BOMs, and manufacturing or installation documentation
- Experience managing technical projects with multiple dependencies and deadlines, with the organization and extreme attention to detail to keep procurement, open items, and schedules on track across several projects at…
- Strong communication skills that make technical information clear to engineers and non-engineers alike, plus comfort working directly with vendors and supporting procurement
- Strong spreadsheet and data-organization skills, and a pragmatic, process-driven approach to following and improving repeatable engineering processes
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to work well under pressure while maintaining high standards
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