Senior Mechatronics Engineer - Humanoid Torso

Your mission

The role
As a Senior Mechatronics Engineer, you join the early team and own the torso of our humanoid - an industrial-grade machine built for the highest levels of reliability and performance. It is where energy, computing and heat come together: the battery, the compute and the E/E backbone, packaged with a cooling system that keeps them within limits through every duty cycle. Working alongside the engineer responsible for torso structure, you own the system - its architecture, package, interfaces and thermal behavior - and you take pride in turning a dense, high-power system into a safe, serviceable and manufacturable product.

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Key responsibilities

• Torso System Architecture: Own the system architecture and package of the torso - from layout concepts to production-ready CAD - balancing volume, mass and center of gravity, thermal, EMC, safety and serviceability, and defining the interfaces to the rest of the robot together with the adjacent engineering teams.
• Battery Integration: Integrate the battery system into the torso, including mounting, impact protection, thermal propagation safeguards, venting and service or swap concepts.
• Compute & E/E Backbone: Package the compute units and the E/E backbone - power distribution, harnesses, connectors and networking - into one coherent, EMC-robust system.
• Thermal Management: Own the cooling architecture for battery and compute - from thermal budgets and heat paths to the cooling hardware - and validate it under real duty cycles together with Thermal Simulation.
• Safety & Validation: Define and drive the verification of the torso system - thermal, electrical, ingress, vibration and abuse testing - in line with the relevant battery and machine safety standards.
• DFM/DFA Excellence: Design every component for manufacturability and assembly at scale from day one, working closely with the workshop, suppliers and supply chain to eliminate late-stage redesigns.
• Mentorship & Standards: Establish the organization's standards for system packaging, E/E integration and thermal design, and mentor junior engineers in mechatronic integration best practices.

Who we are looking for
We seek builders ready to move beyond theory to real deployment: professionals who value precision and reliability as much as innovation - and who think in systems rather than parts.

Must have

• Experience: 5+ years in mechatronic or system-level product development in automotive (e.g. EV battery systems, central compute, power electronics), robotics, consumer electronics or similar high-tech industries. A proven track record of shipping dense, high-power hardware systems is essential.
• Mastery of CAD & Packaging: Expert level in CAD, including complex system packaging, harness routing and digital mock-up.
• Thermal Engineering: Profound understanding of heat transfer and cooling for batteries and high-power electronics - air and liquid cooling, heat sinks, cold plates and thermal interface materials - backed by hands-on testing.
• Battery Systems: Proven experience integrating lithium-ion battery systems, including mechanical protection, thermal runaway mitigation and the relevant safety and transport standards.
• E/E Integration: Hands-on experience integrating compute modules, power distribution, harnesses and connectors - including ECAD/MCAD collaboration, grounding, shielding and EMC-aware mechanical design.
• DFM/DFA Proficiency: Strong command of design for series production, focusing on manufacturing-driven design optimization, parts reduction, assembly-friendly tolerancing and cost-of-goods-sold (COGS) reduction.
• Mindset: You balance startup agility with the rigor of industrial-grade engineering. You keep the whole system in view while sweating the details - and you design for the heat, vibration, impacts and dust a robot faces outside a rendering.

Nice to have

• Thermal Simulation: Hands-on experience with thermal simulation or CFD for quick concept studies.
• Power Electronics: A good understanding of DC/DC conversion, high-current power paths and their thermal behavior.
• Functional Safety: Knowledge of functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 13849, IEC 61508, ISO 26262).
• Electrification & Charging: Experience with charging and docking interfaces or battery swap systems.
• Robotics Fundamentals: Working understanding of humanoid and/or industrial robotics systems - how perception, actuation and control interact.

Why us?

• The Team: Work alongside leadership with a proven track record of building unicorn-scale companies and defining global robotics standards.

• Smart Strategy: We operate as disciplined fast followers. Capital is timed to the deployment inflection point, avoiding early-mover dead ends to scale fast on proven foundations.

• Resources: We are substantially internally funded and attract top-tier investors to avoid any capital constraints for our mission.

• Historic Opportunity: Join at the dawn of a new industry comparable to the rise of the automobile. Help shape the European champion in this trillion-dollar market.
  
  
  

About us

We are building a global leader in physical AI, anchored in Europe’s strongest robotics heritage. Founded by entrepreneurs with backgrounds in scaling digital products and advanced robotics, the team is bolstered by senior leadership from top-tier AI research labs and industrial tech companies.

Driven by a mission to create versatile and trustworthy embodied AI for physical labor, we fuse deep engineering mastery in AI and mechatronics with a rapid-execution culture. We are addressing the labor shortage by closing the gap to production-grade deployment. This means building the trusted alternative: robots that are safe, secure, and engineered to automotive standards of scale and durability.

We are well-capitalized and now assembling our team.

Our Locations: Vesoma has two main locations: Munich, Germany and Limassol, Cyprus. This pan-European setup represents our core ambition of building a European technology leader, gives us a great talent base and a strong corporate structure.

We are an equal opportunity employer.