Position:              Mechanical Designer              

Location:              Kitchener, Ontario              

Experience:          3+ Years relevant experience

Education:            College diploma or university degree in a related field.

About Us

Clearpath Robotics designs and builds service robots to automate the world's dullest, dirtiest and deadliest jobs.  Our clients range from small local businesses to some of the biggest, best known companies on the planet. We built Clearpath by offering hardware and services to support advanced robotics R&D and are now expanding into commercial and industrial service robot deployments.

We employ a diverse and highly talented team who live and breathe robotics.  We believe that work must have a high “cool” factor and every day should bring new knowledge. We need more passionate people on our team who are willing and able to push the boundaries of robotics into focused and practical applications.

Clearpath is building robot armies and we need your help.  Got what it takes?

About the Job

We are shipping more and more robots and seeing new uses for our products emerge every day!  We need a Mechanical Designer to help us take our designs from napkin sketches to hundreds of pounds of precisely moving parts, and facilitate every step in-between.

You will be responsible for the mechanical/mechatronics designs of existing and new industrial robotics products. This will range from high-level design and cost forecasting to detailed part design and evaluation of new and existing vendors for purchased parts.  Our hardware must be many things, but reliability is paramount.  It will be your job to design and build durable robotic systems that are capable of operating in demanding environments, all while upholding our the standards we set for our products.

Your primary responsibilities will be:

• Designing fearsome and robust robots.
• Ensuring the test and production teams have what they need to produce and validate your designs.
• Sourcing components for quick turnaround, as well as high-volume production.
• Evaluating new fabrication and assembly methods.

Additional tasks may include:

• Evaluating how we can apply lessons from other industries to our designs.
• Devising elaborate tests to push prototypes to their breaking points.
• Mentoring and assisting with supervision of interns, co-op students, and temporary labour.

About You

You want to work for a fast-paced growing company that thinks big and dreams huge. You are driven, view work as more than just a job, and are never satisfied with a project left half-done or half-qualified. You want to be surrounded by people like you; creative, fun-loving, and passionate about their work. You are motivated by making an impact on your workplace and you thrive on challenging and rewarding problems. Oh, and you have some form of higher education with the common sense to back it up.

Required Experience/Skills:

• Extensive electro-mechanical machine design skills from component specification through to manufacture (3+ years).
• SolidWorks or similar parametric CAD programs  (3+ years).
• Eagerness to help define unknown systems from the ground-up.
• Being comfortable dealing with external vendors and fabrication shops.
• Comfortable with working closely with a multidisciplinary project team.

Bonus points for:

• Experience with vehicle design (e.g. utility tractors, fork trucks, AGVs, effectively anything with a drive train that has to handle the dynamics of being mobile).
• Experience in designing environmentally hardened systems...or robots.
• Having shipped products with long design lifetimes, high volumes, or both.
• Having a personal “favourite robot video” YouTube playlist.

What Now?

Apply through our online job portal. Please submit cover letter along with your resume. Instructions for sending supporting documentation, including testimonials, portfolio, references, or other indications of exceptional past work will be provided in the confirmation email sent by our system upon receiving your application. Please include "Mechanical Designer” in the subject of any further communications. No recruiters or form cover letters, please. They do not please our mechanical masters

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