Role Overview
Location: On-site in Budapest, HU
As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you’ll own the design workflows that turn Allonic’s tissue-braiding technology into a reliable, autonomous high speed manufacturing platform. You will design mechanisms for braiding machines and other production modules, iterate on sub-assemblies that survive in real production environments, integrate cleanly with electronics and control stacks, and graduate from prototype to hardware manufacturable on scale.
This is a high-impact, senior role at the heart of our Mechanical Engineering team, where you’ll be responsible for guiding the development of complex mechanical and mechatronic systems, part and assembly design, DFM/DFA, preparing vendor ready technical drawings, and mentoring junior team members. You’ll operate with a systems mindset: define interfaces early, design-to-test, and close the loop from requirement to build and verification.
What you'll do
- Design and develop sub-assemblies for our 3D Tissue Braiding machine, ensuring alignment with complex electrical and mechatronics requirements. (actuators, sensors, and EE/controls constraints)
- Draft, prototype, and deliver functional parts within days, working effectively in a high-velocity mechatronics development process with aggressive iteration cycles
- Model, simulate and engineer reliable, precise and high-speed production systems that prioritize function, scale, and cost for long-term viability
- Maintain adaptive and partly code-driven parameterized CAD and configuration-controlled assemblies built for maturity and scale. Make sure they have clean revisioning, standards, and traceable design intent
- Own the complete project lifecycle for your subsystems from initial concept sketches and in-situ evaluation through DFM, vendor-ready drawing packages, and supplier feedback cycles
- Contribute to cross-functional design sessions., rapidly translating requirements and constraints into release-ready CAD and GD&T compliant technical drawings
What you bring
Required
- 5+ years of experience in mechanical or machine design taken from concept to prototype to release/production. Aerospace and automotive experience is welcome
- Experience in a high-responsibility senior/technical lead role in a fast-paced startup environment. Knowing what it means to own and deliver, make decisions, and connect the dots across high and low-level requirements.
- Rapidly sketch/communicate design intent, requirements, and constraints in complex assemblies – interpret and communicate manufacturing drawings (GD&T) / vendor-ready drawings, including tolerances and fits
- Proficiency in CAD and rapid prototyping techniques (PTC Creo preferred)
- Turn assumptions into numbers: run first-order calculations, virtual checks and simulations to set bounds, then close the loop with instrumented real-world tests
- Well-versed in production technologies, DFM/DFA and scalable processes in manufacturing
- Bias toward robust, feasible designs in both CAD and hardware, validated through test data
Bonus Points
- Experience in metrology / dimensional inspection of parts & systems
- Experience in control, model identification, sensors/instrumentation, including sensor calibration
- Experience in FEM and code-driven parametric CAD principles
- Complete system development experience. CNC Mill, Lathe, textile production machinery, physical B2B or consumer products prototype to small-scale
- Experience in technology scouting
- Experience drafting technical descriptions, supporting patent filings with prior invention searches and technical write-ups
Personal Attributes
- Creative thinker with strong spatial visualization skills and ability to communicate design intent and interfaces through sketches
- Organized and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- High learning velocity even for new domains, seeks critique early, and eager to grow
- Collaborative team player who thrives in an environment with fast iterations and frequently shifting constraints
- Quick builder who knows that rapid prototyping and test data yields results quicker than analysis-only
Why join?
- World-changing technology — work alongside a world-class team, and take part in fundamentally changing how robotics are built
- Founding team opportunity — shape the technical foundation and culture from day one
- Competitive salary — we value talent and offer fair compensation for your expertise, including equity package and relocation support
- Work on something new — solve problems that no one else is solving
- Physical impact — you design and build machines that in turn build real, physical products
- Access to prototyping tools — work (and play) with the state-of-the-art
- Cross-disciplinary learning — expand your knowledge across software, engineering, and robotics in your everyday work and at professional events
- Flexible work hours — hybrid work setup possible
- Community — a supportive and design-driven culture where sharing ideas, communication and hands-on collaboration are part of the day-to-day, and failure is considered a learning opportunity
Ready?
If you’re interested in building machinery to automate the manufacturing of the most advanced robotic hardware — we want to hear from you!
To apply: Send your resume, github/portfolio and a note on what excites you most about this role to [apply+hw@allonic.co]
