At Hullbot we're on a mission to decarbonise the global maritime industry.
We're delivering autonomous underwater robots that inspect and clean ship hulls. Hullbot's systems are actively deployed in locations around the world, maintaining hulls free of biofouling, reducing fuel use and cutting emissions.
United by a shared ambition to create environmental impact on a global scale, we move fast and solve complex technical challenges together.
If you want to work on real robotic solutions with measurable impact, solving one of the world's biggest environmental challenges, Hullbot is the place to do it.
The Role
We're looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer who thrives in the creative phase of product development.
This is not a maintenance or incremental‐optimisation role. You'll be embedded in our R&D team, where constraints are evolving, ideas are fluid, and creativity matters just as much as precision.
You'll sketch, ideate, prototype, and translate ambiguous ideas into tangible mechanical systems with a cross functional team. You'll help shape products before they're fully defined — and then turn them into real, manufacturable hardware.
What You'll Do
* Quickly communicate design intent through sketches, CAD models and prototypes
* Translate rough concepts into detailed 3D CAD design for mechanisms, structures, and modular robotic assemblies,
* Build and iterate rapid prototypes (in-house and with vendors)
* Work closely with electrical, software, and systems engineers to develop integrated solutions
* Evaluate trade‐offs between performance, cost, manufacturability, and reliability
* Participate in design reviews and contribute to shaping product architecture
What We're Looking For
* Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Design or similar
* Extensive hands‐on mechanical design experience (R&D or Product Development preferred)
* Strong 3D CAD skills (Onshape, SolidWorks, Fusion 360, NX, or similar)
* Ability to move fluidly from hand sketches to prototype, building and testing physical prototypes, then production‐ready CAD
* Experience designing mechanisms, linkages, enclosures, and structural components, and integrating these with electro‐mechanical systems
* Ability to manage complex CAD assemblies of modular sub‐systems, informed by assembly skeletons
You'll Thrive Here If You...
* Enjoy open‐ended problems more than tightly constrained ones, and are comfortable with evolving constraints
* Get energy from early‐stage ideation, whiteboard sessions, fast team iteration, rather than perfecting v1 in isolation
* Are comfortable experimenting and building to learn
* Think visually and mechanically, with a strong intuition for geometry, tolerances, materials, and manufacturing processes
* Care about elegant, thoughtful design, not just functional design
Bonus Experience
* Robotics or electromechanical systems
* Rapid prototyping (3D printing, CNC, sheet metal, composites)
* Designing for manufacturing processes (Injection Moulding, Vacuum Casting, CNC Machining, Casting, Forming, Encapsulation)
* Design for harsh or outdoor environments including maritime
* Mechanism simulation and/or FEA
Why Hullbot?
* See your work be brought to life, deployed solving real world problems
* Take high ownership over product direction in a small tight‐knit team
* Fast iteration cycles and hands‐on prototyping in a collaborative R&D environment
* Opportunities for rapid learning and personal development
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