Joe Young

Senior Mechanical Engineer | Robotics Hardware

Role
Staff Mechanical Engineer at Apptronik
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Joe Young

I have a background in mechanical and mechatronics design with 10 years of hands-on experience and proven track record in hardware development.+ Experience as technical lead on full humanoid platform mechanical designs; from concept design to critical design gates, and through production. Handling kinematics, structural, joint performance design and packaging.+ Experience designing mechanisms from scratch with various forms of actuation, such as direct drive, series elastic actuators, harmonic, ball screw linear, cycloidal & planetary reduction, bldc motors etc+ Experience designing and building functional prototypes of mechatronic systems incorporating compute, sensing, and actuation, from selecting drivers to onboard computational platforms+ Experience designing anthropomorphic robotic systems, including 7 DOF arms, 6 DOF bipedal legs, 12 DOF hands etc.+ Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to develop conops, requirements, design, build, assemble, develop DOE and test prototypes+ Familiar with simulation, analysis, urdf generation, and modeling tools (Onshape, Solidworks, Matlab, Gazebo, Jupyter notebook/labs etc.)+ Leading, Managing, and working closely with multi-disciplinary teams to develop and integrate hardware systems + The ability for independent precise detail design work as well as high level system understanding+ Prototyping proof of concepts - Ownership of mechanical and mechatronics designs - Schematic creation and layout responsibility - Bring up and debug - Hardware validation Education & Experience

Experience

  1. Staff Mechanical Engineer

    Apptronik

    Mar 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US

    Technical lead for next gen chassis design

Education

  • Tulane University

    Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Biomedical/Medical Engineering

    2009 — 2013

Skills

  • Mobile Devices
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Design Patents
  • Tennis
  • Simulink
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Product Development
  • Biomechanics
  • Objective-C
  • Embedded Devices
  • 3d Printing
  • Manufacturing
  • Labview
  • Solidworks
  • Matlab
  • Medical Devices
  • Image Analysis
  • Computer Science
  • Eagle Pcb
  • Biomaterials
  • Gcode
  • C++ Language

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