Details• Role: Mechanical Design Engineer

- Location: Chakan, Pune
- Experience: 2 to 3 years
- CTC: 3.75 to 5 LPA, with growth linked to the ownership you take and the outcomes you deliver

We are a physical AI and robotics company building the future of food and agri supply chains.

Our goal is the autonomous packhouse: technology that automates every critical step of handling fresh produce, from receiving and quality assaying to cleaning, washing, grading, sorting, weighing, packing, and dispatch. Our AI-powered optical sorters, size graders, and weighing and packing systems already run in packhouses across the country and deliver a level of accuracy that was out of reach for most of the supply chain until now.

Where we stand today

- 130+ machines deployed across 14+ Indian states and 2 countries
- Recognised by NITI Aayog (Compendium of 75 Agri Entrepreneurs and Innovators), Mahindra Startup Leap, MANAGE Samunnati Agri Startup Awards, BSE Top 10 Impact Ventures, and Social Alpha
- Backed by IIMA Ventures, Villgro, Social Alpha, and Aligned Ventures
- Part of NVIDIA Inception, Bosch DNA Accelerator, and NASSCOM 10000 Startups

What you will work on• Design machines and subsystems end to end: infeed and elevating conveyors, singulation and feeding, roller and belt graders, ejection mechanisms for AI sorters, weighing and bagging units, frames, guards, and hoppers

- Do the engineering behind them: load, torque, and power calculations, motor and drive sizing, belt and chain selection, bearing life, shaft and deflection checks, fastener and weld sizing
- Build clean 3D models, assemblies, GA drawings, manufacturing drawings, and BOMs
- Turn field feedback into design changes: work with our service and deployment teams on what wears, what jams, and what is hard to maintain, then fix it in the next revision
- Design for manufacturing and cost: work with our in-house fabrication team and vendors on sheet metal, machining, and welding so what you design gets built well and at the right price
- Prototype and test on the shop floor:



be there for first builds and crop trials, measure what happens, and iterate
- Work with our vision, electronics, and software engineers on camera and lighting mounts, sensor placement, and ejector timing so the mechanics and the AI work as one system
- Keep design documentation, revisions, and a standard parts library in order as the product line grows

What we are looking for• BE / BTech in Mechanical Engineering

- 2 to 3 years of hands-on design experience in special purpose machines, automation equipment, material handling, packaging machinery, agricultural machinery, or similar
- Robust fundamentals in statics, dynamics, strength of materials, machine design, and mechanisms.
- Fluent in 3D CAD and 2D drawings with GD&T;
- A working sense of fabrication: sheet metal, welding, machining, and what makes a part cheap or expensive to make
- Comfortable in the workshop and at customer sites, and happy to travel to packhouses for trials and installations
- Practical, curious, and wanting ownership. We hire doers over high scorers

Good to have• Prior design of material handling systems: conveyors, elevators, hoppers, vibratory or roller feeders

- Exposure to motion systems: servo or stepper drives, pneumatics, linear guides
- Experience with washdown or food-contact design in stainless steel
- A real interest in robotics, AI, and automation

Why this role is exciting• You will own machine design, not one bracket. In most entry-level design roles you get a corner of a drawing. Here you get the machine

- The loop is short. You design it, we build it in the same facility, you test it on real onions and potatoes, and it ships to a customer. That happens in weeks, not quarters
- You will learn across functions. AI vision, electronics, manufacturing, field deployment, and customer feedback all sit within a few metres of your desk
- We are expanding from grading and sorting to the full packhouse. That means new machines to design, not old ones to maintain
- You will work directly with the co-founder who leads engineering and manufacturing, with a decade-plus of automation and embedded systems experience

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