Mechanical Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- A BS degree in Mechanical Engineering is required.
- 4-7 years of Mechanical Engineering experience designing, building, and testing mechanical systems or robots, with a focus on deployment.
- Experience working in a team that has designed, manufactured, shipped, and supported products.
- Proficiency in CAD (Modeling, Assemblies, Drawings, Motion); SolidWorks or OnShape experience preferred.
- Experience using PLM systems, change management processes, assigning part and assembly numbers.
- Ability to perform Machine Design analysis (bolted joints, stress/strain, load path/free body diagrams, dynamics/kinematics, analysis assumption) using both hand calculations and Finite Element Analys
- Proficiency in using GD&T (ASME Y14.5) for creating detailed part/assembly drawings is preferred.
- Knowledge of various manufacturing processes; specifically machining, sheet metal bending, laser cutting, and welding.
- Experience using 3D printing for rapid prototyping.
- Experience in integrating and validating automated systems, particularly during deployment.
- Experience using Confluence and Jira.
- Ability to work well in small teams, able to leave a positive impact on working culture.
- Ability to communicate well with people from different areas of expertise, from customers to designers to software developers.
- Strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and ability to learn at hyperspeed.
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Willing to go the extra mile to help the team.
- Adjust well to rapid change.
Full description
Our Company
MISO develops technology that elevates human potential in the commercial kitchen.
We’re engineering production-ready robotic systems that tightly integrate perception, real-time decision making, and electromechanical controls to automate the most dangerous, least desirable tasks in food preparation. That means building software that understands the physical world as it actually behaves, and hardware that can execute precisely in the face of chaos. Success is measured in uptime, throughput, and trust from our customers, not demos.
Our flagship platform, Flippy, is already operating in high-volume restaurant kitchens across seven states. Zippy, our Kitchen Intelligence software centralizes all operational data in our broader ecosystem, expanding the role of AI enabled autonomy in real-world operations. Backed by industry leaders, including Ecolab (NYSE: ECL), Miso combines the stability of a proven commercial product with the technical depth and ambition of a company passionately innovating to solve foundational problems in robotics and restaurant operations.
If you’re excited by hard constraints, real customers, and the challenge of making machines perform reliably where failure isn’t an option, you’ll find meaningful problems to work on here.
The Role
The Mechanical Engineer will play a crucial role in deploying our Flippy robotic kitchen assistants, focusing on enhancing the user experience and ensuring seamless integration into live restaurant environments. This position works closely with product end users and across the full development lifecycle, with a particular emphasis on the deployment phase. The primary function of this role is to be a first point of contact in supporting immediate needs for Engineering, Operations, Sales, and other cross-functional partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Define hardware requirements and perform system-level design trades with the product team, specifically for Flippy deployment.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineering, systems, and testing teams to evaluate and optimize designs for customer needs, reliability, and ease of deployment of Flippy into a live restaurant environment.
- Contribute to the full development cycle of Flippy's various robot subsystems (mechanical, electronic, software, etc.) to meet defined performance requirements, with a focus on deployment considerations. This includes architecture definition, component selection, system design, analysis, testing, qualification, etc.
- Participate in cross-functional design reviews to build a shared understanding of the Flippy product, incorporate field feedback and provide constructive input to team members.
- Design, prototype, and build mechanical and electro- mechanical modules for Flippy robotic systems, with an eye towards robust deployment.