Mechanical Engineer - Winter 2026 Internship
About The Position
This is a paid Winter 2026 Internship position, running from January to April with flexible dates. The internship requires full-time, in-person work at the company's San Francisco office. The company is building a Physical AI Scientist platform that includes Physical AI capable of operating scientific instruments with human-level dexterity and Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously. The team consists of passionate, mission-driven engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink, who are collaborative, enjoy fast-paced work, and share interests in engineering, robotics, and other topics. They value learning, sharing knowledge, and engaging in intense discussions about design tradeoffs, resolving conflicts quickly and empathetically.
Requirements
- Strong mechanical intuition and hardware debugging and assembly skills
- Passion for the gritty details of part design, material selection, and manufacturing techniques
- Experience with mechanical engineering tools and best practices in production to design components, produce drawings, and build assemblies
- Experience designing, building, testing, and scaling hardware
- A hacker’s mindset - getting quickly to a good-enough solution
- Are hands-on and willing to cross discipline boundaries to solve a problem
- Know your way around rapid prototyping technology
- A willingness to wear many hats / a flexible attitude towards responsibilities and scope
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing PLM/document control systems
- Mechatronics and circuit design background
- Knowledge of robotics, motion control, camera, force/torque sensors
- Experience or familiarity with robot arm manipulators
- Experience with robotics in a laboratory or manufacturing environment
- Experience writing code for robotics systems
Responsibilities
- Intern in our Mechanical Engineering team, focusing on building the tools used across our product to accelerate science.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
