The roleMechatronics Engineers at CircuitHub own projects end to end. You'll start with a problem, often on our factory floor, and take it all the way to a working machine:
- Understand the problem and turn it into a clear specification
- Generate ideas and choose the right mechanism
- Design it in CAD and prove it out with the engineering calculations
- Prototype and build it, machining parts in our in-house CNC shop
- Bring it to life with software on our in-house robotics operating system
We work AI-first. AI tools help you scope the problem, drive your CAD, run the calculations and write the machine software. The software side needs basic software engineering skills, not a software background: you'll write it with AI agents, supported by a dedicated software engineering team who build the operating system.
You must have built things before, ideally robots, whether as a hobbyist, student, employee or founder. We don't hire narrow specialists. We want engineers who can:
- Diagnose system-wide failures from first principles
- Prototype mechanical and software fixes on the fly
- Work autonomously and communicate clearly with a team spread across sites
- Take responsibility for how their machines perform in live production
Things you'll doThis is a design role with hands-on prototyping. For example:
- Conceive new mechanisms to handle electronics parts and other robotic handling tasks, using AI to scope and specify the problem
- Design gantries and end effectors in Fusion 360
- Use AI agents to run the engineering calculations, and know when to distrust them
- Machine prototype parts in our in-house CNC shop
- Analyse end-effector behaviour from video and revise its geometry and control approach to improve throughput and reliability
- Program machine behaviour on our in-house robotics operating system, with AI agents doing the heavy lifting
- Specify sensors that catch errors while a machine is running, or monitor a chemical process
- Prototype and deploy a new test robot for in-line PCB validation
- Commission your machines and hand them over to our build team to scale up
- Work across our US and UK sites to share what you've learned and shape the roadmap
Bonus skills- Experience programming machines, whether PLCs, robot controllers, embedded systems or Python
- Programming and running CNC machinery
- Design of chemical handling machinery
- Optics
Pay and level$80K-$200K depending on experience, plus equity.
A candidate at the lower end of the range might have:
- Built some systems before, with some exposure to robotics or automation
- Seen parts and subsystems through to manufacture as part of a design team
- Knowledge of designing for machining
- A keen interest in moving their career towards practical robotics
A candidate at the upper end might also have:
- Led the build and deployment of large-scale automated systems
- Written the software that controls their own machines
- Designed for a wide range of manufacturing methods, from machining to sheet metal to injection moulding
- Mentored more junior engineers
The range isn't a hard limit: if you're an expert in all of the above, we still want to talk to you. Not quite so experienced but passionate and keen to learn? Talk to us too.
LocationFull-time on-site at our factory in South Deerfield, Western Massachusetts, 90 minutes from Boston, where the Grid runs in production today.
