Senior Mechanical Engineer (Zürich, 100%)
loki
Zürich
Posted Jul 6, 2026
- Full-time
- Engineering
Job description
## **We are hiring a Mechanical Engineer** ⏰ Start date: ASAP 📍Zürich, Switzerland (on-site, remote not possible) 🦾 Full-time (100%) ## **💼 Your role** You’ll ideate, design, manufacture, and deploy core mechanical systems on our robot. By joining the first team in the world desiging from first principles how a robot should clean commercial spaces, you are going to heavily rely on your creativity and determination to solve problems in unconventional ways. **What you’ll be doing:** - Build custom electromechanical systems from a robot arm and grippers to automatic tool changers, to a docking station - Build cleaning-specific mechanical systems like cleaning end-effector tools and fluid systems - Drive our HIL testing efforts to prove effectiveness and durability of our mechanical systems - Contribute to the industrialization efforts required to manufacture hundreds of robots ## **🤖 You** **What you should have:** - 3+ years in a professional Mechanical Engineering environment, preferably Robotics, Automotive, or Aerospace - Strong CAD modeling experience (e.g. Onshape) - Experience with metals and plastics manufacturing processes - Experience in robotics actuation systems (e.g. BLDC motors, gearboxes, encoders, torque sensors) - Experience in fluid systems (e.g. water pumps, valves, nozzles) - Experience writing basic software for test benches independently (Python, C++) **These skills are a plus:** - Experience building custom PCBs - You have built articulated robots before (e.g. a robot arm or robot leg, quadruped, humanoid) - You have contributed building a hardware product shipped in the hundreds of units to customers Don't worry if you don't hit every check-mark. We value people who learn fast and care about building great products. Just give it a go and apply.