Mechanical engineer jobs in Pacifica, CA and nearby (376 jobs)

Mechanical engineer jobs within 25 miles of Pacifica, CA. Nearby towns and cities are included. Distances are straight-line, not driving distances.

Counted Nov 9, 2026

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Open jobs: 376
Employers: 181

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $148,337Across 118 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $65.84Across 10 listings

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Where work happens

Remote: 0%0 listings
Hybrid: 5%18 listings
On-site: 40%150 listings

Not specified: 55% (208 listings)

Employers hiring include Zipline (16), Form Energy, Inc (14), Astranis (8).

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Mechanical Design Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners
San Francisco, CA
Join a hands-on robotics hardware team designing mechanical subsystems for autonomous robots used in data centre operations. You will take designs from initial concept through working…
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Mechanical Engineer (PE)
GPAC
South San Francisco, CA
- $150,000 to $200,000 USD / year
Our client is a Mechanical Contracting firm who is looking to add a Mechanical Engineer to their team! They work projects of all sizes and across most sectors. If you are interested in the…
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Robotics Engineer (Product / Electrical)
Becoming
San Francisco, CA
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Mechanical Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners
San Francisco, CA
Join a growing Series A industrial recycling technology company as a hands-on Mechanical Engineer. You will design and deliver physical systems for metal sorting, taking equipment from CAD…
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Mechanical Engineer
GPAC
Oakland, CA
- $85,000 to $155,000 USD / year
Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET accredited college, or equivalent
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Mechanical Engineer
GPAC
San Francisco, CA
- $85,000 to $155,000 USD / year
Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET accredited college, or equivalent
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Mechanical Engineer
GPAC
South San Francisco, CA
- $95,000 to $135,000 USD / week
In this Role you’ll work as Project Engineer on industrial, educational, health care and commercial facilities projects. Your main responsibilities on HVAC, fire protection, piping,…
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Senior Mechanical Engineer
Lumafield
San Francisco, CA
- $150,000 to $190,000 USD / year
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Mechanical Engineer, Power Generation
OpenAI
San Francisco, CA
- $257,000 to $327,000 USD / year
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Mechanical Engineer - Structural Simulation
DoorDash USA
Oakland, CA
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Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls
Clera
San Francisco, CA
- $180,000 to $200,000 USD / year
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Mechanical Engineer
Jacobs
San Francisco, CA
We're seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our growing California Buildings team. In this role, you'll support the design and delivery of HVAC, plumbing, hydronic, and mechanical building…
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Mechanical Design Engineer
Premier Global Links
San Francisco, CA
Premier Global Links LLC is seeking a hands-on Mechanical Engineering Lead for an innovative technology company developing advanced sensor systems and AI-powered solutions for real-world…
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Mechanical Engineer (PE) - HVAC Design
GPAC
San Francisco, CA
- $90,000 to $150,000 USD / year
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Mechanical Engineer, Fuel Handling Equipment
Kairos Power
Alameda, CA
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Senior Mechanical Engineer
Pacific Fusion
San Leandro, CA
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Principal Mechanical Engineer
Clera
San Francisco, CA
…directed-energy systems for counter-drone applications. As Principal Mechanical Engineer, you will own system-wide mechanical architecture and help take complex hardware from prototype…
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Lead Mechanical Engineer
Raydar
San Francisco, CA
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the mechanical design of hardware products, taking them from early concept through prototyping, validation and production…
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Mechanical Engineer
Sila
Alameda, CA
…a better lithium-ion battery from the inside out today. We engineer and manufacture ground-breaking battery materials that significantly increase the energy density of batteries, while…
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Senior Robotics Engineer
Azalea Robotics Corporation
Berkeley, CA
As a Senior Robotics Engineer at Azalea Robotics, you will own core autonomy software end to end: from the localization, mapping, and steering that drive the mobile bases in our ARC 1…
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Founding Mechanical Engineer
Aviary Robotics
San Francisco, CA
We're looking for a founding mechanical engineer to own the physical design of our robotic platform end to end - airframe, actuation, and the mechanisms that
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Lead Product Designer/Mechanical Engineer
SubPac
Palo Alto, CA
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Mechanical Engineer
Agile Enterprise Solutions
Palo Alto, CA
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Subsea Acoustics Engineer
Ulysses Inc.
San Francisco, CA
- $145,000 to $190,000 USD / year
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Mechanical Engineer
Ulysses Inc.
San Francisco, CA
- $130,000 to $180,000 USD / year

Medra

Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer

San Francisco, CA, United States

$130,000 to $210,000 USD / year

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Job details

Pay: $130,000 to $210,000 USD / year
Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 27, 2026

Original job description

What We’re Building:

We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our Physical AI Scientist platform: 🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity. 🧪 Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously. This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things.

The Team:

We’re a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We’re collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting!
As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics - plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other.
Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don’t mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.

In this role, you will:

Operate like the technical co-founder of a small startup within Medra, owning end-to-end delivery of high-impact customer projects and defining the roadmap to meet customers’ most critical scientific challenges
Translate scientific workflows into technical requirements, support system architecture from conception to delivery, and develop interfaces between robots, instruments, and software
Design, build, and test scientific workflows on our Physical AI Scientist platform, combining existing capabilities with new production software and instrument integrations
Make implementation tradeoffs with robotics and software engineers, deciding where to reuse existing capabilities and where a customer requirement needs new engineering
Integrate, test, and debug software solutions in simulation and on physical robots
Work with forward deployed scientists through integration testing, water runs, customer-site bring-up, and scientific validation, resolving engineering blockers along the way
Diagnose failures across software, instrument behavior, robotics, and customer infrastructure, and work with specialist engineers to resolve them
Extend deployed systems to support new instruments, consumables, and workflows, rolling out releases with appropriate verification and clear operating guidance
Bring deployment learnings back into the platform by generalizing integrations and sharing reusable tests, diagnostics, and tooling with other deployment teams
Clearly explain technical decisions, limitations, and risks to customers and teammates
Travel to customer sites approximately 30% of the time for hands-on deployment and support
This position is 100% in-person, you must be able to come on-site to our San Francisco office. We do not offer hybrid roles at Medra. We do offer relocation benefits for applicants that need to relocate.

Let’s talk if you have:

Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production code
Demonstrated systems thinking: designing, implementing, testing, or debugging interfaces in a production system
Experience delivering technical solutions with customers or users, from an ambiguous problem to a working solution in use
A penchant for customer-facing engineering: you enjoy working directly with users, making technical decisions, and being accountable for the result
A track record of learning unfamiliar technologies quickly and making sound decisions with incomplete information
Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs and surface problems early
Interest in developing depth in robotics, automation, and physical AI, with a willingness to work directly with physical systems

Bonus points if you have:

Experience shipping a product that combines software and hardware
Forward deployed engineering experience, or another engineering role with direct responsibility for customer implementations
Production code in Python, C++, or Rust
Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, or software that coordinates external services and equipment
Experience designing integration tests, reliability tests, observability, or deployment tooling
Experience with robotics, laboratory automation, or biology

What we offer:

401k
Medical insurance
Dental Insurance
Relocation benefits
Unlimited PTO
Weekday dinners

Medra is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies. We value diversity at Medra and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

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