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Loki Robotics

Senior Mechanical Engineer (Zürich, 100%)

Zürich

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Seniority
Senior
Country
CH
Work mode
On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly
28 Sept 2026

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the posting

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.

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