Founding Hardware Engineer

Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like inbounding goods, replenishing shelves and sorting stock, currently mostly overnight. They're driven from our control room in Stockholm and increasingly run on their own. We raised a €1.92M pre-seed in August 2026 and are live with retailers in Sweden and Finland. We're a small team based at Sankt Eriksgatan in Stockholm, where half the office is our own dark store.

The role

We design and assemble our own robot platform in-house. It's CE-marked and working in customer stores, and it's far from done. You'll own the physical robot: from concept and CAD through prototyping and 3D printing to manufacturing and assembly at scale. You'll see your work running in stores within weeks.

What you'll do

• Concept and visualize new products and subsystems

• Model structures, mechanisms and enclosures in CAD

• Prototype rapidly and iterate from what you see in stores

• Design for manufacturing and assembly, and take designs through to production

• Apply solid hardware fundamentals: GD&T, tolerances, tooling, material selection

• Move fast

What we're looking for

• Attitude first: high agency, you spot the problem and ship the fix without being told

• A strong track record in hardware design, or an unreasonable appetite to build one

• Comfortable in a fast-moving, unfinished environment where the plan changes

• Ready for long weeks when it matters and demos that have to work tomorrow

• Fluent in English; Swedish is a plus

• You must already have the right to work in Sweden, as unfortunately we're not able to offer visa sponsorship at our current stage

Why join

• A founding role with ownership of the hardware

• Meaningful equity

• See your designs running in real stores within weeks

• Shape the next version of the robot