Pickle Robot Company

Mechanical Engineer

• Lead the mechanical design of major robotic platforms across the full product lifecycle, from concept and prototyping through NPI and sustained field deployment.
• Set the technical direction for how the Robot platforms are architected, packaged, and manufactured; make system-level decisions that hold up through production and deployment, not just during design review.
• Define design requirements, perform tolerance stack-ups, and drive interface decisions across complex assemblies integrating actuators, sensors, and electronics.
• Ensure structural integrity of mechanical assemblies: define load cases, run or direct finite element analysis (FEA), select materials, and validate through physical test.
• Conduct simulations, testing, and prototyping to validate designs.
• Create detailed technical drawings, CAD models, and documentation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues during design, production, and deployment.
• Drive design solutions through sketches and CAD, gather cross-functional input early, and build alignment across stakeholders before committing to a direction.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, safety regulations, and quality control processes.
• Support production teams in scaling and improving manufacturing processes for robotics hardware.
• Serve as a technical anchor for the mechanical engineering team, setting the bar for design rigor, documentation quality, and engineering judgment.
• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, hands-on guidance, DFM coaching, and best-practice modeling.
• Lead and participate in cross-functional design reviews, identifying risks early and driving alignment across hardware, software, and manufacturing stakeholders.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts in robot performance and reliability.

Principal Mechanical Engineer

Robotics

• Support and scale our robotics simulation infrastructure
• Enable teams to develop, test, and validate robotic systems using simulation tools such as Isaac Sim
• Work across software, testing, and robotics teams to build and maintain simulation environments
• Improve workflows and ensure simulations are reliable, scalable, and accessible across the organization

Simulation Software Engineer – Robotics Platform

Backend Engineer

• Design and build backend services supporting task planning and autonomy systems
• Develop scalable, reliable, and performant systems using Python (and C++ where needed)
• Contribute to system architecture and service design within the team
• Build and maintain event-driven systems and messaging-based architectures
• Collaborate closely with robotics engineers to integrate backend systems with real-world workflows
• Improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability across services
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions to elevate engineering standards

Backend Software Engineer – Robotics Platform

• Develop and maintain software at the intersection of machine learning and robotics, with a focus on robot grasping — determining which gripper configuration and tools to use.
• Integrate, improve, and harness SOTA ML models for our task domain. Modify the architectures, create training pipelines, deploy to robots, and continually iterate.
• Collaborate closely with a small, highly technical team (currently two engineers).
• Contribute to simulation-based development and testing of grasping and manipulation systems.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and cross-functional problem-solving with perception and motion planning teammates.
• Extensively leverage AI coding tools and modern development workflows to maximize individual and team output.

Robotics Software Engineer – ML, Grasping

AI Engineer

• Serve as the technical architect for Pickle Robot's Physical AI stack, owning the end-to-end design of perception, planning, and control systems deployed on production hardware.
• Lead the application of diffusion-based policy learning and optimal control techniques to robot manipulation and picking tasks, with a focus on real-world reliability and cycle time performance.
• Drive hardware integration efforts across sensors, compute, and actuators — ensuring AI systems are co-designed with the physical platform from the ground up.
• Define the technical roadmap for how diffusion models and optimal control complement each other in Pickle Robot's autonomy architecture, and build internal alignment around that vision.
• Partner with firmware, mechanical, and software engineering teams to ensure AI design decisions are grounded in hardware constraints and operational realities.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at the intersection of model inference, motion execution, and hardware throughput.
• Mentor senior engineers and help grow the technical depth of the broader autonomy team.

Physical AI Architect

Hardware Engineer

• discover how to use new peripherals and extend the functionality of existing ones within our robotic system
• configure and program devices, including PLCs, motor controllers, and safety systems
• implement communication via Modbus, PROFIsafe, CAN, Ethernet, and similar protocols
• design clean, well-documented APIs between peripherals and Pickle's object-oriented, distributed platform
• characterize the performance of peripheral interfaces to design and implement meaningful improvements
• design and implement safety-critical features, including emergency stop mechanisms, collision-avoidance systems, and other safety-related functionality
• develop Python scripts, test harnesses, and debugging tools to verify the reliability and safety of firmware across the system
• drive design and code reviews, raising quality standards across the firmware team

Principal Mechanical Engineer

Simulation Software Engineer – Robotics Platform

Backend Software Engineer – Robotics Platform

Robotics Software Engineer – ML, Grasping

Physical AI Architect

Senior Firmware Engineer