Junior Mechanical Engineer

American Turbines • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

The Junior Mechanical Engineer will help turn a running turbine core into a deployable product: the package, the structural frame, the mounts, and the mechanical systems that keep the machine fed, cooled, and serviceable in the field. Working with our integration lead, you will design real parts of the enclosure, baseplate, vibration isolation, and lift and transport provisions, take them from CAD through released drawings, and then walk to the shop floor and help build what you drew. You will own shippable pieces of the machine from day one. You will design them, tolerance them, source them, install them, and find out on our own test stand whether they work. As the design matures you will help figure out how hundreds of units cluster, share infrastructure, and get serviced without a crane and a week of downtime. A turbine that runs on a test stand is a science project until someone makes it deployable, repeatable, and serviceable at scale. You will be part of the small team whose job that is. This is a role for an engineer early in their career who wants compressed experience: at a large company you would touch one component in your first three years. Here you will see a machine go from parts on a bench to a product in the field, and your name will be on drawings all over it.

Requirements

• Degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent hands-on background.
• 0 to 3 years of experience.
• Strong CAD fundamentals (SolidWorks, NX, or similar).
• Working grasp of GD&T.
• Working grasp of materials selection.
• Working grasp of common fabrication methods: machining, sheet metal, welding.
• Evidence that you build things (e.g., internships with shipped hardware, FSAE or rocketry teams, a shop-built project).
• Comfortable with hand tools.
• Eager to assemble and test what you design.
• Rigorous about drawings and tolerances but fast.
• Ask questions early instead of polishing in a vacuum.
• Urgency and care.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to gensets, engines, turbomachinery, or other high-power hardware.

Responsibilities

• Design real parts of the enclosure, baseplate, vibration isolation, and lift and transport provisions.
• Take designs from CAD through released drawings.
• Walk to the shop floor and help build what you drew.
• Own shippable pieces of the machine from day one.
• Design, tolerance, source, and install components.
• Test components on the company's test stand.
• Help figure out how hundreds of units cluster, share infrastructure, and get serviced without a crane and a week of downtime.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level