Backed by Stanford.
About the role
We are looking for a Lead Mechanical Engineer to join our hardware team and help take our glove from a working prototype to something we can build in small batch manufacturing.
What they're looking for
- You have 3 to 5+ years in mechanical product design. MSc or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering
- You've brought at least 1 product from concept to production and worked at a startup, or comparable fast-paced environment
- You’re a leader. We want you to bring high technical standards and an above-average communication skillset. You naturally force multiply everyone around you
- You're excellent at CAD (Onshape preferred, SolidWorks or Fusion are ok) and bring good habits around top level assemblies and versioning
- You understand the standards that robotics companies need to uphold to deploy in production, and have experience designing and running test protocols to ASTM or similar
- You're comfortable with mechatronics. You've worked with sensors and custom boards, you can flash firmware and make small changes. You can use a multimeter and a scope to find a problem before handing it to an EE
More about this role
Haptica is building the standard for touch in robotics.
We build pneumatic-based tactile sensing wearables for robots and people that are natively bi-directional. The same hardware that senses contact can push back with force. Haptica integrates across grippers, robot hands, and human hands. Teleop teams use Haptica to give operators low-latency haptic feedback that replicates the forces a robot exerts on an object. Data and learning teams use Haptica to capture the tactile layer that's missing from every robot-learning stack — whether they're training policies, collecting data at scale, or deploying a specific task.
Haptica was founded by Dr. Cosima du Pasquier and Paola Peraza Calderon in 2026 and is backed by top tier investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Leitmotif, NVP Capital, and Sarah Smith Fund. Haptica’s advisors include famed roboticist Rodney Brooks, Benchmark Capital co-founder Andy Rachleff, and haptics expert Allison Okamura.
We’re a small and mighty team of builders driven to unlock touch as the new frontier. The next 6 months for us are all about building high quality hardware, quantifiably establishing the impact of tactile data on learning policies, and...
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