Company Overview

Fieldwork Robotics is a pioneering autonomous robotics company developing modular, multi-crop, soft and adaptive robots designed to operate in real-world, non-controllable environments such as agricultural fields. Our mission is to transform farming through intelligent, scalable robotic systems that improve productivity, sustainability, and efficiency.

We operate a growing R&D headquarters in Cambridge and are establishing a new engineering hub in Lisbon following the incorporation of our Portugal subsidiary. Our teams work collaboratively across hardware, software, and operations to deliver reliable, production-grade autonomous robots.

Job Summary

We are seeking a talented and enthusiastic Mechanical Engineer to join our technology team. In this role, you will design, build and test our next generation of robotic fruit harvesting platforms. You will collaborate closely with our electrical, electronic, software, vision, ML, and data engineers. You may be involved in designing a new product from a blank sheet of paper, improving an existing product, or developing a concept.

You will have the opportunity to see your designs implemented into production and scaled to operate across large farms around the world. What we are developing has not been done before, you will be presented with very interesting engineering problems to solve.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of the autonomous robotic platform for fruit harvesting.
• Cross-functional team communication to manage design specifications and align scope with resources.
• Using systems/block diagrams to effectively communicate and demonstrate understanding of architectural design changes.
• Use of rapid development tools to provide agile response to engineering problems.
• Ensure the designs meet their commercial and functional requirements.
• Work closely with suppliers to fabricate parts and build systems.
• Work collaboratively with the electrical, electronics, and software teams to verify and validate the products you have designed.
• Work collaboratively with the electrical, electronics, and software teams to create the technical construction file for safety and regulatory compliance.
• Create and manage the Design pack and Manufacturing pack.
• Support the transfer to manufacture when we start to build fleets of robots.
• Support the design review process including the review of your peer’s work.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement and cost reductions activities.
• Contribution to development of IP portfolio and Roadmap.
• Resource estimation for your designs and management of your time and priorities to achieve agreed budget and timelines.
• Support occasional field trips for technology testing and validation at grower’s sites.
• Prepare and present technical updates to your stakeholders, peers, board, clients, and investors.