# Robotics Actuator Design Engineer

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Barcelona
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies.

As a Robotics Actuator Design Engineer based in Barcelona, you will be responsible for driving the mechanical architecture, design, and development of next-generation robotic systems.

## The Day-to-Day

- Lead the detailed design and integration of complex robotic subsystems, including high-precision actuators, structural chassis, and dynamic motion systems.

- Drive cross-functional integration with electrical and software teams to ensure seamless packaging, cable routing, and thermal and sensor integration.

- Define material selection strategies and fabrication methods, conducting FEA, stress analysis, and tolerance stack-up analysis to ensure designs meet rigorous functional, cost, yield, and lead-time requirements.

- Establish and advocate for mechanical engineering best practices, including modelling standards, GD&T drawing controls, and technical documentation.

- Critically evaluate system architectures in design reviews, identifying risks and delivering high-impact solutions that optimise performance and manufacturability.

## You Should Apply If

- You have shipped complex robotic, mechatronic, or automated systems to market, with a verifiable track record of ownership across the full product development cycle.

- You bring expert-level proficiency in 3D CAD modelling, ideally SolidWorks, combined with deep knowledge of GD&T for precision manufacturing environments.

- You have applied structural and thermal FEA, static simulations, and tolerance stack-up analysis to solve real engineering problems in production-grade systems.

- You have worked extensively across diverse manufacturing processes, including CNC machining, injection moulding, sheet metal fabrication, and additive manufacturing.

- You communicate complex technical decisions with clarity to cross-functional stakeholders.

## Nice to Have

- Experience architecting high-performance, high-power-density actuators and advanced mechatronic systems for legged robotics platforms.

- Background working in agile, small-scale mechanical design teams, with direct experience taking full technical ownership from early concept through to serial production.

## What We Offer

- Competitive salary and VSOP options

- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation

- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance

- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)

- Social: regular company events and monthly social allowances

- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers

- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work

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## Skills

### Required
- 3D CAD modelling
- GD&T
- FEA
- stress analysis
- tolerance stack-up analysis
- CNC machining
- injection moulding
- sheet metal fabrication
- additive manufacturing

### Nice to have
- high-performance actuators
- mechatronic systems
- legged robotics platforms

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