Mechanical Engineer

Albacore Inc.

📍 philadelphia, pa, United-States

Full-time Defense and Space Manufacturing,Robotics Engineering Posted June 19, 2026

Job Description

Albacore Inc. is a Philadelphia-based company building highly-capable, mass-producible drone submarines to defend sovereign waters of America and allied nations. We are backed with more than $10 million from Y Combinator and venture capital investors.


Role Description

  • Design and develop mechanical systems for underwater vehicles, contributing to structural layouts, pressure housings, propulsion integration, and subsystem packaging
  • Work across the full development cycle from concept and analysis through fabrication, integration, and testing, applying a strong first-principles engineering mindset to solve complex design problems
  • Collaborate closely with electrical, software, and systems engineers to integrate propulsion, sensing, power, and payload subsystems into robust electromechanical systems
  • Design and fabricate custom hardware, fixtures, and test infrastructure to enable component validation, system integ...