Senior Mechanical Engineer, Dexterity
$150-190k
Office located in Redwood City, CA, USA
Robotics for logistics, warehouses, and supply chain
Open for applications
Robotics for logistics, warehouses, and supply chain
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-190k
Office located in Redwood City, CA, USA
201-500 employees
Company mission
Dexterity's mission is to help people thrive and grow by freeing them to do work that humans do best, by transforming the world to make work more purposeful.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical Engineering
- 10+ years of related work experience, including having advanced designs from initial concept through scale production
- Significant experience using 3D CAD, preferably SolidWorks - including 2D drawings and simulations
- Experience designing motion control systems with sensors, actuators and complex mechanisms
- A working knowledge of ASME and ISO drafting standards including GD&T, (Y14.5-2009)
- A working knowledge of DFM/A and statistical tolerance analysis
- A working knowledge of failure avoidance methods including DFMEA/PFMEA and fault tree analysis
- Able to work with customers and contract manufacturers
- Able to manage multiple projects and engineering teams concurrently
- High level of technical writing proficiency (specs, test plans, reports, white papers, etc.)
- Familiarity with electrical design and integration (cable harnesses, wiring diagrams) is a plus
- Have worked in mid-to-large sized teams (5-20 people) and mentored junior engineers to build production-grade systems
What the job involves
- Take inputs from customers (both internal and external) and generate sub-system requirements
- Utilize a set of requirements to design elegant solutions both quickly and carefully, independently preempting issues of manufacturability and future maintenance
- Transform tested conceptual solutions into robust product designs in coordination with engineering, operations, the customer and contract manufacturers
- Design and release components and systems using SolidWorks
- Develop production and support documentation including bills of material (BOMs), assembly drawings, and maintenance instructions
- Perform test and verification of prototype systems
- Perform system design analyses, including reliability, design-for-manufacture, design-for-assembly, cost-downs, etc
- Coordinate engineering efforts across the mechanical engineering team
- Mentor junior engineers, help improve designs, and inculcate a production mindset
Our take
Dexterity emerged from stealth at an opportune, albeit tough, time in 2020, just as an accelerating labour crunch drove major demand for automated solutions in factories and warehouses. The company managed a major fundraise and immediately moved on to bigger and better things: expanding into the Japanese market, partnering with supply chain automation leader Dematic and achieving unicorn status with a greater than $1 billion valuation.
Unlike other companies which are fixated on developing increasingly sophisticated, more human-like robots, Dexterity’s takes a comparatively simple hardware approach. Its machines take care of highly repetitive tasks, while its SaaS platform shares everything it learns with each robot, amplifying intelligence across the fleet. Rather than seeking to replace human workforces it aims to augment them, freeing skilled workers for more complex tasks.
Considering that the worldwide labour shortage is heavily impacting the industrial sector, Dexterity is in a promising position to continue its upward trajectory over the next few years.. Indeed its recent partnerships with Sumitomo to supply 1,500 Dexterity robots in their warehouses and with FedEx for autonomous trailer loading are encouraging signs of things to come for the company.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2021
$140m
SERIES B
Jul 2020
$56.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $196.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible and generous vacation and holidays
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits for you and your family
- Retirement plan (subject to country of employment)
- Wellbeing and fitness offerings
- Insurance programs
- Discounts and perks
- Meals and snacks at our sites
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Samir Menon
(CEO)Former Software Design Engineer at Microsoft India R&D, former Research Assistant at Simon Fraser University. Before founding Dexterity they spent 10 years at Stanford University, gaining a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) & Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science.
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