Hardware Engineer – Robotics

Dynamic Creatures • Cambridge • • 1mo ago

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Location: Cambridge, MA
Manager: Hardware Engineer Lead

The Gist

You'll prototype rapidly, validate against real-world use, and iterate toward production-ready designs across actuation, sensing, and structure.

What You’ll Do

  • Design subsystems in CAD and take them through prototyping

  • Spec and integrate motors, sensors, and electronics

  • Run characterization and reliability tests

  • Document designs and contribute to BOM and manufacturing files

What We’re Looking For

Must-haves:

  • 3+ years in robotics, consumer electronics, or related hardware

  • Strong mechanical or electrical fundamentals (or both)

  • Hands-on prototyping experience (machining, 3D printing, soldering)

  • BS/MS in ME, EE, Robotics, or equivalent experience

About Us

Dynamic Creatures is a robotics company designing and building interactive character robots for entertainment and hospitality brands. We are creating a new category of mobile characters that move naturally through guest environments, understand the context of an interaction and respond in real time. Dynamic Creatures offers character-based experiences built on Boston Dynamics and other systems, as well as fully original robots created for a specific brand, environment or story. As Boston Dynamics’ official entertainment and hospitality partner, the company works with entertainment companies to develop guest-facing character experiences designed to feel personal, attentive, and memorable. Dynamic Creatures was co-founded by CEO Marc Theermann, former chief strategy officer at Boston Dynamics and a former senior leader at Google, and chief technology officer Farbod Farshidian, a globally recognized robotics researcher and former research leader at the Robotics and AI Institute.

Additional Information

  • This role is in-person in Cambridge, MA five days per week.

  • Benefits: medical, dental, vision, PTO

  • No visa sponsorship is available for this role; applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

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