Mechanical Engineer
Postmates X
At Postmates X, we’re reimagining how things move in cities. Serve, our personable sidewalk delivery robot, is our vision for the future of delivery. It’s designed to take deliveries away from congested streets and onto underutilized alleys and sidewalks, to save energy, reduce emissions, reduce traffic, and make deliveries faster and cheaper. Why move two-pound burritos with two-ton cars?
WHAT WE DO
Postmates relies heavily on our engineering team to realize this vision. Building a software platform that is reliable, scales, and stays agile under demanding product needs is a serious technical challenge. Postmates is a three-part balancing act connecting customers, merchants, and couriers in real-time. If any piece is out of whack, the whole system suffers. Working with the Postmates engineering team offers an opportunity with explosive growth, cutting-edge technology, a highly visible charter, and a cool user-focused product vision.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Solidworks 3D CAD mechanical design, testing, integration, and prototyping of components
- Develop design to ensure serviceability, manufacturability and other performance attributes for the robots
- Ensure design compliance with internal requirements
- Develop and build prototypes and run tests to measure their level of function
- Record and evaluate testing data, altering designs as necessary to bring them to safety, performance and efficiency standards
OUR REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum of 5+ years mechanical engineering experience
- Solidworks CAD Proficiency is a must
- Solidworks CAD Proficiency is a must
- Robotics design, and/or experience with some or all of the following:
- Mechanism design
- Motion control
- Sensor integration
- Battery power management
- Camera integration
- Lighting
- Mechanism design
- Experience designing parts via the following manufacturing process
- CNC milling and turning
- Sheet metal
- Injection molding
- Casting
- Rapid Prototyping technologies
- CNC milling and turning
- Experience working with hand tools, hardware, and assembly
- Creation and management of highly detailed and functional 3D models and detailed mechanical drawings
- Experience seeing a product through from design to manufacturing is strongly desired
- Experience working with Industrial Design teams is a plus
A bit about us
Postmates is changing delivery for good. While you may know us as the clever brand loved by celebrities and millennials, we are so much more. We are industry-first leaders in the modern logistics space, creating groundbreaking tech products that positively impact millions of customers, merchants and gig-economy workers as well as the underserved in the communities where we work. How will you help us change delivery for good?
Benefits
Postmates has your back. In our impact-first work environment, we value huge company vision. As you strive to build the future with us, we’ll support you with a competitive rates and equity plan, along with access to our 401k plan and robust benefits including: health benefits, flexible paid time off, parental benefits, and food perks.
Postmates is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants at Postmates are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.