Hardware Co-op: R&d

**Your New Role and Team**

Our robotics team is looking to hire a Hardware R&D Co-op. Reporting to the Hardware R&D Lead, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of hardware systems, sensors and actuators, instrumentation, and control systems.

**Our Success Criteria**:

- Bring hands-on experience in machining, fast prototyping methods, structural simulation, sensors and actuator design
- Gain cutting-edge career experience as you build and monitor the performance of new prototypes, resolve issues and iterate to improve the performance and resolve the issues of the previous versions
- Achieve company-wide visibility as you partner with design and mechanical teams using test equipment and assisting with experiments
- Expand your R&D experience as you develop, prototype and manufacture new parts and systems

**Your Experience**

**Qualifications**:

- Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, mechatronics engineering, engineering physics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Knowledge in fluid mechanics, hydraulics and heat transfer
- Knowledge of CAD, mechanical design, mechanisms and actuators
- Hands-on experience and deep technical understanding of prototyping methods, machining, and 3D printing

**Skills**:

- In-depth knowledge of mechanical design, fluid mechanics (including hydraulics) and heat transfer, sensors and actuators, and mechatronics systems
- CAD experience (OnShape, SolidWorks, etc.), machining and power tools experience, and hands-on experience with fast prototyping methods
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Excellent organizational and process documentation skills

**Traits**:

- Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
- Optimistic listening and conflict resolution capabilities
- Demonstrated ability to influence others without authority
- Eager to take on new challenges with tenacity and positivity
- Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving performance issues
- Obsession with bringing human-like intelligence to machines

**Working at Sanctuary**

Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

**Benefits**

Full time employees enjoy medical/dental/vision, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (vacation, paid holidays, sick time, and parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.

**About Sanctuary**

Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.

Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.

**Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice**:

- Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time_.