Senior Mechanical Engineer - Robotic Platforms
Gritt Robotics, South San Francisco
The role
You’ll own the mechanical integration of our robots onto heavy mobile base platforms - skid-steers and tracked vehicles in the 10,000 lb class - and lead programs that take systems from prototype to repeatable field deployment across construction environments. Our arms are heavy, our payloads are heavier, and our operating conditions run from Arizona desert heat to sub-zero winter cold. You’ll make hard trade-offs on structure, mounting, sealing, thermal, and serviceability, and you’ll make them fast.
Because our platform is general-purpose, you won’t be designing for one task forever. The same base robot needs to handle different end-effectors, payloads, and workflows as we expand across construction. Designing for that kind of reconfigurability - without giving up ruggedness - is a core part of the job.