💡 About SWARM Biotactics

At SWARM Biotactics , we’re creating biorobots — living, intelligent systems based on insects. Each insect carries a custom-designed backpack enabling wireless control, sensing, and secure communication.

Biorobot swarms combine the efficiency of biology with AI, sensing, and swarm coordination — unlocking capabilities where conventional machines fail.

We are the only company in the world doing this — and we’re building the foundational systems that make living machines possible.

🚀 Join us at the frontier — and help create the first generation of living machines.

💡 Your Role

We are seeking a highly experienced automation engineer with 8+ years of industry experience, excluding internships, academic projects, and thesis work, to architect and build advanced tooling for surgical workflows, electrode placement, and precision biomechanical interfacing.

You will work across mechatronics, imaging, electronics, AI-assisted positioning, and micro-scale mechanical systems to create tools that do not yet exist. This is not a maintenance role. It is for someone who can move from concept to physical system, from design model to working prototype, and from experimental ambiguity to robust technical execution.

You will:

• Design and build automation systems for surgical support, microplacement, and precision handling
• Develop tooling for electrode placement and other delicate interventions on living systems
• Integrate mechanics, sensors, electronics, imaging, and intelligent control into one coherent platform
• Create AI-assisted positioning and alignment methods using imaging and feedback signals
• Work on micro-actuation, fine-placement mechanisms, and constrained mechanical architectures
• Contribute to material selection, fixture design, interface design, and manufacturable precision assemblies
• Translate experimental requirements into reliable hardware and automation workflows

🧠 Your Profile

You bring deep hands-on experience in automation engineering, precision mechatronics, or robotic tooling, with a track record of shipping complex physical systems in demanding environments.

You likely have strong experience in several of the following:

• Precision mechanical design and mechatronic system integration
• Automation systems for laboratory, medical, industrial, or high-precision applications
• Imaging-guided tooling, alignment systems, or computer-vision-assisted positioning
• Fine-pitch actuation, microplacement, motion control, or miniature mechanisms
• Electronics integration, sensor feedback, and closed-loop system behavior
• Materials science awareness for precision assemblies, interfaces, or bio-relevant tooling
• Fast prototyping and experimental engineering under uncertainty

🌍 Why SWARM Biotactics

We’re well-funded and expanding fast in a space no one else is in.

You’ll join a world-class team working on the frontier of science and engineering.

Your work will directly shape the foundation of biorobotic systems that redefine the interface between life and technology.

In this role, your impact will be immediate and foundational. You will help create the physical tools and automation backbone that enable precise interaction with living intelligence. The problems are hard, the constraints are real, and the solutions will require invention across disciplines.

⚡ Join the Swarm

If you’re ready to create the impossible — hands-on, every day — we want to meet you.