Robotics Engineer

About the position

The company - Apeiron Labs is reimagining ocean monitoring by developing technologies to reduce the cost of ocean sensing by orders of magnitude. We are a venture-backed company and our co-founders, Applied Invention and S2G Ventures, have a successful track record of creating and investing in some of the world’s most impactful technologies and companies. Apeiron means unbounded in Greek. The challenge and opportunity are unbounded, and your unbounded creativity can be part of the solution! You will be responsible for designing, building, and characterizing cutting-edge underwater robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual designs for underwater robotic systems
• Work with the engineering team to specify mechanical, hardware, and software requirements for the subsystem
• Build, test, characterize, and refine prototypes
• When needed, specify design packages and evaluate, qualify, select, and manage contract manufacturers to fabricate designs
• Develop and maintain a system roadmap

Requirements

• An undergraduate or graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Autonomous Systems or a related field
• 4+ years of real-world experience with designing, building, and shipping robotic arms, graspers, or other similar systems
• Experience in programming complex robotics systems
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, computer and technical writing skills are mandatory

Nice-to-haves

• Experience applying your experience to submersibles, spacecraft, drones, or similar power and weight-constrained electro-mechanical systems