Role Overview
Location: On-site in Budapest, HU
We’re looking for a highly creative, technically rigorous Robotics Engineer to join our Solutions Team and help define what robots built from braided tissue-like structures can become. Your role is to translate our core 3D Tissue Braiding technology into real, deployable robotic systems and the features they are composed of — arms and manipulators, joints, tendons, complex mechanisms and functionalized multimaterial elements — that directly relate to conventional robotic systems our robotics designer customers understand and can integrate into their own platforms.
You’ll work across the full stack, designing and delivering robotics with an emphasis on mechanical design, kinematics/dynamics, actuation strategies, and system architecture, while working closely with our Platform and R&D teams to push the boundaries of what our materials and machines can do. This is a hands-on, high-creativity, high-accountability role for someone who has not only built robotics systems before — but made them work in real-world environments.
What You’ll Do
- Map high-level robotic concepts into manufacturable 3D braided features, such as tendon mechanisms, compliant joints, and multimaterial segments (springs/dampers, embedded sensing and actuation),
- Design, prototype and validate braided robotic structures and complete systems (joints, tendon-driven mechanisms, limbs, manipulators).
- Model and analyze kinematics and dynamics of complex mechanisms, use calculations / simulation workflows and model-based reasoning to evaluate design options.
- Design sensing, actuation and control strategies for tendon-driven, compliant, or hybrid architectures.
- Implement and integrate embedded control software for robotic systems.
- Translate customer needs into clear robotic structures grounded in technical requirements such as DoF, torque/force budgets, stiffness/elasticity profiles, and workspace constraints.
- Prepare customer-facing concept demos, prototypes, and industrial-grade deliverables.
- Help derive platform-level requirements by feeding back insights into braider capabilities, material behavior, software tooling, and system architecture.
What You Bring
Required
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience and strong portfolio in building real robotic hardware or complex automation systems — ideally shipping to customers or deployed in production, labs, or field settings.
- Deep understanding of robotic kinematics & dynamics, mechanical design for moving systems, sensing & actuation principles, and robotic control fundamentals.
- Proficiency in 3D CAD (SolidWorks, PTC Creo, Fusion 360, etc.), complex systems design, and rapid prototyping, working knowledge of simulation or model-based reasoning.
- Experience in delivering and iterating over robotic prototypes, end-to-end across the full stack, including programming in robotics contexts (Python, C++, embedded basics, ROS).
- Ability to work cross-functionally with hardware, software, and materials engineers.
- Strong interest and intuition for robotics industry trends, and market/user needs.
Bonus Points
- Experience with dexterous hands, anthropomorphic limbs, or high-DoF manipulators.
- Expertise in tendon-driven systems, compliant robotics, soft robotics, or hybrid architectures.
- Familiarity with embodied AI, whole-body control, visuomotor learning, or VLA pipelines.
- Experience integrating sensing into mechanical structures (strain, force, tactile, etc).
- Understanding of manufacturing processes & constraints for robotics components.
Personal Attributes
- Systems thinker with a passion for experimenting with the unconventional and thinking outside of the box to solve problems in new ways.
- Extremely creative, but grounded in deliverables and industrial expectations.
- Curious, experimental, hands-on — loves building things that move.
- Comfortable working across mechanical, electrical, and software boundaries.
- Precise, documentation-driven, and thoughtful about reliability.
- Owner’s mindset, excited about defining an entirely new category of robotic structures.
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
- Work on something new — solve problems that no one else is solving
- Physical impact — your designs influence tangible machines that build real, physical products
- 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’ve built robotic systems for the real world, and want to help invent the next generation of robots — we want to hear from you!
To apply: Send your resume, portfolio (videos strongly encouraged) and a note on what excites you most about this role to [apply+sol@allonic.co]
