- Robot type
- Industrial Automation
- Location
- TorranceCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 31, 2026
- Salary
- $96,350–$204,090 a year
Full-time
Senior/Staff Mechanical Engineer, Factory Automation
Job description
Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.
A Senior/Staff Mechanical Engineer on the Factory Automation team will own the mechanical design and deployment of automation systems that form the foundation of Divergent’s Adaptive Production Systems (DAPS). These systems will enable Divergent factories to rapidly reconfigure for simultaneous production of automotive, aerospace, and defense structures—eliminating the traditional tooling bottlenecks that constrain flexible manufacturing.
This is a hands-on role with significant technical ownership. You will translate manufacturing and operational needs into robust mechanical designs, evaluate tradeoffs across performance, cost,…
Job responsibilities
- Own the mechanical design and development of significant automation systems and mechanical initiatives, from problem definition and concept development through detailed design, release, integration, validation, and…
- Translate manufacturing and operational needs into clear system requirements, interfaces, constraints, and acceptance criteria, working closely with mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacture, and…
- Develop effective solutions to complex and evolving factory needs, balancing technical requirements with practical constraints around cost, schedule, manufacturability, and deployment.
- Develop mechanical architectures and detailed designs for complex automation systems using CAD, drawings, GD&T, tolerance analysis, engineering calculations, component selection, and bills of material, while ensuring…
- Apply broad mechanical engineering expertise across structures, mechanisms, precision motion, fluids, thermal systems, sealing, enclosures, and machine integration to solve challenging technical problems and deliver…
- Evaluate design alternatives and make sound technical tradeoffs across performance, reliability, safety, manufacturability, serviceability, cost, schedule, and technical risk.
- Identify technical and integration risks and path and execute appropriate analysis, prototyping, assembly, testing, troubleshooting, and design iteration to resolve them.
- Lead the resolution of complex technical issues within owned systems and incorporate lessons learned into design improvements and future development.
Job requirements
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls.
- Batchelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline
- Demonstrated a track record of architecting and delivering complex mechanical systems from concept through detailed design, build, test, release, and deployment, while establishing technical direction and driving…
- Expert capability in 3D CAD, engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerance analysis, component selection, and design for manufacturability and assembly
- Broad understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals and the ability to apply them to unfamiliar or multidisciplinary design problems.
- Ability to convert ambiguous needs into practical designs and make sound technical decisions with incomplete or evolving information
- Hands-on experience developing prototypes and integrating, testing, and troubleshooting mechanical equipment
- Ability to lead cross-functional technical work and communicate technical reasoning, decisions, risk, and status with limited oversight.