
Temple Allen Industries provides next-generation surface preparation solutions, specializing in automated sanding and de-painting. Their core product, EMMA Intelligence, utilizes AI to revolutionize surface finishing, achieving flawless, consistent results with precision and safety. EMMA learns and adapts in real-time, enabling customized sanding techniques and eliminating the need for pre-programming or facility modifications. The system offers significant benefits including a 5x increase in output, elimination of ergonomic risks associated with manual sanding, and a 430% improvement in finish quality. Customers have reported drastic reductions in sanding time (up to 73.8% in labor time) and improved factory flow. EMMA is designed to work alongside humans, making automation accessible without requiring expertise.

Temple Allen Industries provides next-generation surface preparation solutions, specializing in automated sanding and de-painting. Their core product, EMMA Intelligence, utilizes AI to revolutionize surface finishing, achieving flawless, consistent results with precision and safety. EMMA learns and adapts in real-time, enabling customized sanding techniques and eliminating the need for pre-programming or facility modifications. The system offers significant benefits including a 5x increase in output, elimination of ergonomic risks associated with manual sanding, and a 430% improvement in finish quality. Customers have reported drastic reductions in sanding time (up to 73.8% in labor time) and improved factory flow. EMMA is designed to work alongside humans, making automation accessible without requiring expertise.
Temple Allen Industries (www.templeallen.com) is a small technology firm headquartered in Rockville, MD, just outside of Washington D.C., currently developing a line of smart automation products which promise to dramatically reshape the robotics, machine learning, and human augmentation landscape. The firm has enjoyed particular success in serving a prestigious list of aerospace clients in both commercial and defense sectors.
Position: Early Career Mechanical Engineer
We are looking for a few exceptional candidates who have graduated from a competitive program in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or related disciplines to consider joining the elite team at Temple Allen Industries in Rockville, MD. We want someone who is eager to bring their own skillsets and personal experiences in generating mechanical designs that expand available features and deployments, emphasize ease of assembly, simplicity, and robustness, and improves the overall experience of operating an EMMA system.
You should be excited to spec out the requirements for a design and design to achieve or exceed those specs. You should be interested in completing the full design process from designing new parts and making their drawings and inspection documents, to creating the assembly steps and procedures, and testing and validating your design delivered on its requirements. Your passion for mechanical design will help to fuel your work in improving our EMMA robotic solution. You should want to be a part of the design process and be excited to participate in discussions with other designers and engineers to help understand the system holistically and better implement elements that bring real value to the artisan and the enterprise.
As part of our Engineering team, you will bring your talents, energy, and dedication to the cutting edge and interdisciplinary development of industrial automation technologies that integrate unique mechanical / pneumatic tooling with a collaborative automation controls methodology that incorporates Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Requirements:
The following items are required for an individual accepting the responsibilities of this position:
Expectations:
At Temple Allen, we articulate multiple levels of employee competencies and express them as tiers. Early career candidates may only be ready for tier 1 responsibilities, while more experienced candidates will typically be expected to perform tier 2 or even tier 3 tasks, as appropriate. What matters to us most is what we can count on you to do successfully, not how many years of experience you may have, though these are often correlated. We believe it is important to set up every hire for success by carefully matching expectations and competencies. The lists below will help candidates for this role understand what our expectations are:
The following items are expected tasks an individual accepting this position will be undertaking and completing:
Tier 1 Responsibilities Include:
Compensation: based on skills and experience
Temple Allen is a non-smoking environment.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $65,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person