Robotics Hardware Engineer

ph3About Exclaim Robotics /h3p We're a small robotics company building robots to maintain critical infrastructure, starting with data centers. br/Compute density in AI data centers is skyrocketing, which is forcing changes to rack dimensions and cooling, and above all to power.

Those changes make a rack a worse place for a person to work.

Most of the data center is controlled remotely anyway, so the physical tasks that remain are small and very precise: replacing an optical network connector without dislodging its neighbors, reconfiguring copper wiring, and replacing NVMe drives exactly straight, all through a mess of cables.

The robot has to be reliable enough that people trust it near a rack that costs millions of dollars. br/We're in pre-seed, and everything is still being built: the team, the company, the robots.

If that sounds exciting rather than worrying, this might be the right place for you! /ph3What You'd Be Doing /h3p You'd be our first hardware engineer, and the robot's body would be yours to build: an omnidirectional base that can get itself down a rack aisle and then hold still while an arm works, a lift to reach the top of a rack from the floor, the grippers on the end, and the electrical design and battery system underneath all of it.

Robot arms are on order. br/The interesting question, and the one we'd want you chasing, is how much of this is really a mechanical problem.

Plenty of what the field treats as perception or learning problems can often be solved with better damping, a compliant wrist, or a jig, and we'd like to know how far that goes before we reach for a model.

Maybe one gripper handles every task, maybe each task wants its own; we don't know yet, and finding out is the job. br/If you have a crazy idea and a safe one, we want to spend a week trying the crazy one first.

Most of what you build will be wrong the first time, and we'd rather find that out early. /ph3What You Need to

Bring: /h3ullip Enough hardware prototyping behind you to have owned a design from sketch to working hardware.

Show us a portfolio or side projects.

An engineering degree would be nice, but applied experience is nicer. /p /lilip Mechanical design and fabrication you're fast at: CAD, 3D printing, machining, whatever gets a working part into your hand soonest. /p /lilip Enough electrical to own the system without making a mess of it: motors and drivers, power distribution, sizing a battery and choosing a BMS, and wiring a prototype yourself.

You don\'t need to lay out boards. /p /lilip Experience working alongside controls, perception, or software engineers.

You\'d be building the thing they have to make move, and it helps to already know what they\'ll ask you for. /p /lilip Having shipped a complex electromechanical product is a big bonus, though not a requirement. /p /li /ulh3You'd Be a good culture fit for us if: /h3ullip You like working closely with a small team /p /lilip You can take on a task you have no idea how to do, and figure it out as you go along /p /lilip You're comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback /p /lilip You care more about the robot working than about being right /p /lilip You're good at figuring out what needs to be done and doing it, rather than waiting to be told what to do or asking for permission /p /lilip Having an office dog isn\'t a deal-breaker /p /lilip You think joining an early-stage start-up will be a fun adventure :) /p /li /ulp Don't look like a typical robotics engineer?

Non-traditional background?

Good.

We're not really traditional either. /p /p #J-18808-Ljbffr