7th Unit is building a wheeled upper-body humanoid robot for industrial deployment in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. This is a founding role, you own the hardware architecture from day one.

What you'll do

- Define arm and actuator architecture for v1 — degrees of freedom, actuator selection, mechanical design
- Design and build the gripper system optimized for our first deployment object set
- Develop the hot-swap battery system enabling continuous multi-shift operation
- Own structural design with field serviceability and manufacturing scale in mind
- Integrate with wheeled base platform sourced from established robotics component suppliers
- Deliver a working manipulation prototype within the first 90 days

What we need

- 3+ years designing and building physical robotic systems that operated outside a lab




- Hands-on experience with actuator selection, motor control integration, and real-world mechanical failure modes
- You have personally assembled and debugged a working robotic system end-to-end
- Comfortable making architecture decisions under uncertainty and iterating fast
- Experience with off-the-shelf component integration is a robust plus

Structure

- Position starts Q3 2026
- Equity negotiated directly, founding engineer package
- Remote during pre-build phase. In-person required from prototype assembly onward

Skills:- Embedded Systems, 3D CAD, Python and ROS2

📌 Robotics Hardware Engineer (Almatti)
🏢 7th Unit
📍 Almatti