Mechanical Design Engineer – Automation Periphery & Customer Solutions (m/w/d)

Your Mission:
RobCo delivers modular, highly configurable automation systems that enable manufacturers to automate flexibly and efficiently. Our Customer Solutions team plays a critical role in tailoring these systems to real customer environments by engineering the supporting mechanical ecosystem around our robots. 

Our goal is to make RobCo the leading provider of automation solutions for the European SMB market. To achieve this, we have already raised over 50 million USD from the world’s top venture capital firms, including Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed, as well as from the founders of UiPath, Helsing, Pitch, and other companies.

To strengthen this team, we are looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer (m/w/d) who specializes in automation periphery and enjoys turning customer challenges into robust, production-ready mechanical solutions.

As a Mechanical Design Engineer in RobCo’s Customer Solutions team, you design the mechanical periphery that ensures robotic automation works reliably in real customer environments. Your focus is on everything around the robot that enables safe, repeatable, and maintainable operation according to industrial standards. Typical design scope includes:

• End-of-arm tooling (EOAT)

• Custom grippers

• Fixtures, nesting, part presentation, and workholding

• Robot cell structures, frames, bases, and mounting systems

You work closely with project managers, applications and controls engineers, procurement, and customers to deliver periphery hardware that integrates seamlessly with RobCo’s modular robotic platform and withstands day-to-day production realities.

Your Responsibilities

Mechanical Design of Automation Periphery:

• Develop concepts and detailed designs for EOAT, fixtures, and periphery modules based on part, process, and takt requirements.

• Create robust interfaces to RobCo modules (mounting, alignment, tolerances, cable and hose routing, strain relief).

• Drive design-for-manufacturing and design-for-assembly from day one (simple, repeatable, cost-aware, lead-time aware).

• Build production-ready CAD (3D models), drawings.

Project Support & Customer Interaction:

• Translate customer inputs (part drawings, constraints, standards, site conditions) into requirements and design decisions.

• Contribute to design reviews, feasibility checks

• Support prototyping, mock-ups, and testing

• Coordinate with external suppliers (machining, gripper vendors, pneumatics) including technical clarifications.

Integration & Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Provide early input during concept phase to avoid late rework (space, access, guarding, tolerances).

• Help turn one-off solutions into improved standards, templates, and reusable modules.

Documentation & Quality:

• Create and maintain BOMs, technical documentation, safety notes, and test procedures for mechanical periphery.

• Ensure designs meet applicable safety and machinery expectations.

Your Profile:
• You have a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• You have at least 3 years of experience designing mechanical systems for automation, machinery, or robotics in production environments.

• You are proficient in CAD systems (SolidWorks, Inventor, or similar) and can produce clear manufacturing drawings.

• You have practical knowledge of mechanics, tolerances, fastening techniques, and industrial design.

• You think customer-oriented and develop pragmatic solutions that work in the field.

Preferred:

• You have experience with industrial robots, EOAT design, and cell integration.

• You are familiar with guarding, safety principles, and relevant standards.

• You have experience with conveyors, part feeding, and machine integration.

Why us?:
• Develop real components that directly impact our customers’ automation outcomes.

• Work in an environment where mechanical creativity and hands-on engineering go hand in hand.

• Shape a modular automation ecosystem that scales across industries.

• Benefit from competitive compensation, perks, and ownership of your own projects.

• Work on cutting-edge, software-defined robotics and pioneer solutions to the skilled labor shortage in industry.

• Enjoy versatile, independent work in a dynamic startup with flat hierarchies and an open feedback culture.

• Access nationwide training at over 7,200 partner studios for only €30 per month (Wellpass membership).

• Participate in regular team events (Game Nights, Ski Trips, and more) – Teamwork makes the dream work!

Do you share our passion for groundbreaking robotics technology and want to be part of our growth? You will lead your own projects, implement innovative solutions, and be recognized for your achievements!