Senior Gear Design Engineer
Figure is an AI robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots and its Helix vision-language-action AI system.
Funding history
About Figure
Figure develops and deploys general-purpose humanoid robots for commercial and household tasks. Its current Figure 03 robot is powered by Helix, an onboard generalist vision-language-action model; the company also operates the Index data-collection service.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own gear and transmission design from system sizing through validation and mass production. You will analyze gear performance, create CAD models and drawings, define manufacturing and inspection strategies, build test rigs, and work with engineering and suppliers to resolve risks.
Requirements
- 7+ years of gear and geared-transmission design experience
- Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or similar degree
- End-to-end gear design ownership through mass manufacturing
- KISSsoft or equivalent gear analysis software
- CATIA or equivalent 3D CAD
- AGMA/ISO gear rating standards, gear metrology, and tolerancing
- Gear manufacturing processes and supplier development
Responsibilities
- Own gear design from system sizing through mass production
- Perform gear sizing, stress analysis, and micro-geometry optimization
- Design gears, shafts, and transmission assemblies in CATIA
- Define gear manufacturing strategies and drive supplier DFM
- Generate drawings, gear data tables, GD&T, and inspection plans
- Build and run test rigs for efficiency, backlash, wear, and fatigue life
- Correlate test data with analytical models
- Identify risks, drive decisions, and unblock the program