Senior Mechanical Engineer

Aescape is a body intelligence company delivering Adaptive Body Therapy, powered by physical AI and robotics. Each session listens to your body and adapts to it in real time, releasing the tension that builds from work, training, travel and everyday life. Members choose their focus, adjust pressure as they go, and see results build with consistent use. Every table evolves through over-the-air software updates, so the experience keeps getting better. Find Aescape at 150+ leading fitness, hospitality and wellness destinations across the US.

Aescape is headquartered in New York and is backed by Valor Equity Partners, BroadLight Capital and Mecha Ventures, alongside seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, an investor and strategic partner.

Aescape is looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to own critical mechanical subsystems on our robotic platform. You will take subsystems from concept through design, analysis, prototyping, and validation, and carry them into production alongside our contract manufacturer and key suppliers. This is a hands-on role on a small, senior hardware team: you will design, build, and test your own work, and stay with it through manufacturing bring-up and into the field. You will work closely with Electrical, Firmware, Controls, Product, and Operations, and you will ship hardware that real people experience with their bodies. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

For this role, we are open to candidates who can work fully on-site from our NYC office OR those based in the greater Boston area, with the ability to travel to our NYC office regularly.

Compensation : Base salary range of $170,000 - $210,000 annually, plus discretionary annual bonus, plus equity grant commensurate with the role and company stage. Full-time employees are also eligible for our comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), paid time off, and paid parental leave.

Join Aescape

We’re building a new category: body intelligence, delivered through Adaptive Body Therapy. We’re looking for people who are driven, resourceful and eager to learn, who bring different perspectives, and who care about work that makes a real difference for the people we serve. If that sounds like you, we’d like to hear from you.

Responsibilities

Subsystem Design & Ownership: Own the design of mechanical subsystems from concept through production release. Balance subsystem-level requirements against system-level constraints, and resolve complex mechanical design issues.; Analysis & Validation: Analyze and test your designs using FEA, kinematics, dynamics, and tolerance analysis. Build and test your own prototypes, and drive design decisions from test data and physics.; Design for Manufacturing & Cost: Design for manufacturability, reliability, and cost. Select components and processes with an understanding of what they cost at volume, and contribute to cost-down efforts across the product.; Manufacturing & Supplier Partnership: Work with our supply chain team, contract manufacturer, and suppliers to develop fixtures and assembly processes, support builds through NPI, and produce the documentation for production transfer: CAD, drawings, BOMs, and specifications.; Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Electrical, Firmware, Controls, Product, and Operations through the development process, translating requirements into mechanical designs.; Issue Resolution & Root Cause: Provide mechanical engineering support for manufacturing and field issues, troubleshoot process and component problems, and drive quality, manufacturing, and material defects to root cause.; Invention & Prototyping: Generate new concepts, write invention disclosures, and build rapid prototypes.; Travel: As needed for supplier and CM engagements, including international travel.

Requirements

Education & Experience: BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience, with 5+ years of hands-on mechanical design engineering experience on large-scale electromechanical devices.; Subsystem Ownership: A track record of owning mechanical subsystems through the full product development lifecycle: design, implementation, debugging, verification, qualification, and transfer to manufacturing.; CAD & Analysis Depth: Strong SolidWorks skills, with solid statics, dynamics, kinematics, strength of materials, stress analysis (FEA), and tolerance analysis. You have the engineering intuition to know where a design is likely to fail and the rigor to prove it quantitatively.; Manufacturing Knowledge: Demonstrated knowledge of component manufacturing processes including injection molding, sheet metal, weldments, CNC machining, surface finishes, and painting or powder coating, with a strong understanding of component selection criteria and design for reliability and manufacturability.; Hands-On Builder: You prototype, instrument, characterize, and test your own work, and you are comfortable in the lab and on the factory floor.; Cross-Disciplinary Fluency: Comfortable working with Electrical, Firmware, and Controls engineers, with an understanding of mechanical design as part of a larger electromechanical system.; Communication: Strong written and verbal skills. You explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical partners and communicate effectively with geographically distributed teams and suppliers.; Pragmatic Judgment: You make good calls on tradeoffs with limited data, know when to test and when to decide, and avoid analysis paralysis.; Craftsmanship & Taste: High standards for how the machine looks, sounds, and feels.; Adaptability: A driven self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and able to pivot as priorities shift in a fast-moving startup, willing to take on work outside your core role when required.; Nice to Have: High-volume consumer electronics product development experience, familiarity with design of experiments and statistical methods.; For this role, we are open to candidates who can work fully on-site from our NYC office OR those based in the greater Boston area, with the ability to travel to our NYC office regularly.

Benefits

Join a trailblazing robotics and AI company building the future of recovery; The chance to make a difference with a product that empowers healthier and happier living; Team culture driven by passion, ambition, empowerment, inclusion, curiosity, and fun!; 100% employer-paid healthcare coverage for employees with generous coverage for eligible dependents; Flexible time off; Quarterly Wellness Days - everyone fully unplugs; Generous parental leave; Complimentary OneMedical membership; 401(k) with employer matching; Home office budget; Annual stipend for professional development; Working late? Dinner is on us; Complimentary Aescape recovery sessions for yourself, friends & family