Google DeepMind is looking to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence, specifically in the realm of robotics, to build components for advanced robots capable of dexterous, general, and useful physical actions, aiming to enhance the lives of billions worldwide.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in robotics or a similar field, with a specific focus on designing, building, and testing precision mechanisms for complex electromechanical systems.
- Proven track record working in a company that has shipped complex software-enabled products incorporating compute, sensors, actuators, and structural components.
- Expert proficiency with CAD design tools (e.g., SolidWorks, NX, CATIA) and PDM systems.
- Strong understanding of GD&T drafting standards (ASME Y14.5) and tolerance analysis.
- Extensive experience with high-performance materials and precision manufacturing processes.
- Proficiency designing custom gears, planetary gearboxes, or strain-wave actuation systems including KISSsoft or Romax for gearbox modeling and optimization.
- Proficiency in simulation and analysis tools (FEA) for structural and thermal optimization.
Responsibilities
- Develop structural and kinematic systems that define the physical capabilities of advanced mobile robots, specifically focusing on the rapid development of prototype mechanisms relevant to dexterous manipulation.
- Design and validate custom actuation systems, applying fundamental knowledge of transmission design, gear geometry, and tribology to optimize the performance of high-torque density robotic joints.
- Utilize advanced surface modeling techniques to design complex end effectors and anthropomorphic structures, optimizing for both functional dexterity and industrial design form factors.
- Create detailed 3D models and 2D drawings using GD&T (ASME Y14.5), ensuring designs meet the performance, reliability, and manufacturability standards required for precision robotics hardware.
- Collaborate across teams to integrate complex software-enabled subsystems within strict volume constraints, ensuring seamless operation in dynamic environments.
- Leverage expertise in high-performance materials to balance strength, weight, and compliance.
- Conduct rigorous mechanical testing, failure analysis, and troubleshooting of complex mechanical systems using lab equipment.
Other
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field.
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $183,000 - $271,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
- We value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
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