Senior Mechanical Engineer
Senior Mechanical Engineer owning design and process for robotic grinding and finishing cells. Requires direct experience with abrasive tooling against metal parts in production, force/torque control, and thriving on the manufacturing floor.
About the job
What you'll do
- Own the mechanical design of our grinding and finishing cells (end effectors, tool changers, force compliance, fixturing, dust and safety systems).
- Solve real process problems: material removal, surface-finish targets, wheel and media selection, contact mechanics, cycle time.
- Get on the floor, and have your designs constantly tested in production.
- Set the standard for how we approach new parts and new customers mechanically.
What we're looking for
- Direct experience with robotic grinding, deburring, or surface finishing. You've shipped or deeply worked on systems that drive a tool against a part.
- Real grasp of the process, not just the mechanism: abrasives, contact forces, material removal, finish quality.
- Comfort with force/torque control, compliance, and the sensing that makes finishing work (we run ATI sensors, Yaskawa and KUKA arms, Zivid vision).
- Someone who thrives in the field and on the floor, not only in CAD.
- The judgment to know what's good enough to ship and what isn't.
Nice to haves
- Foundry, casting, or heavy-manufacturing exposure.
- Experience taking a cell from prototype to running-a-shift-unattended.
- Familiarity with industrial robot integration and machine safety systems.
Skills
Robotic Grinding, Deburring, Surface Finishing, Force Control, Compliance Systems, Ati Sensors, Yaskawa Robots, Kuka Robots, Zivid Vision, Industrial Robot Integration, Machine Safety Systems, Abrasives Selection, Material Removal, Fixturing
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