Junior Mechanical Engineer

Do you want to understand the development of a product from the ideation stage, to prototyping, to scale up manufacturing and be an intrapreneur?   

Join Da Vinci Prime as our Junior Mechanical Engineer and develop your skills working alongside and being mentored by experienced engineers and innovators engineering products used in everyday life and for professionals.  

Da Vinci Prime is a product development firm striving to engineer the next phase of cutting-edge and innovative products that will change the world and ensure we take care of the planet with sustainable and symbiotic approaches.  

Job Title: Jr. Mechanical Engineer 

Job Description:  

• Understand and refine the project scope and generate ideas evaluating pros & cons for each idea including ability to scale-up into manufacturing ensuring quality and stable supply chain.  
• Sketch ideas by hand or digitally including diagrams to communicate your ideas and create logic & I/O process flows for the execution of an electro-mechanical device. 
• Develop the prototyping strategy, the unknowns that will be resolved, and ensure that the scale up manufacturing strategy is established.  
• Create presentations based on your concepts and supporting evidence to present to the team of engineers to further develop the concept based on project scope, solutions, and strategy of prototyping & scale-up manufacturing.  
• Model the concept in 3D CAD software, create assemblies with motion/FEA analysis, create drawings with tolerances/critical dimensions and quality requirements.  
• Create necessary documents like DFMEA (Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis), tolerance drawings with GD&T & ASME codes and standards, packaging specs, RfQ documents to vendors, cost modeling analysis, etc.  
• Set-up and operate a 3D Printer, CNC, and utilize standard bench-top tools to create and construct the prototypes.  
• Utilize PLC’s with sensors, actuators, UI, etc. to create a prototype electro-mechanical device.  
• Reports to the Lead Engineer who is responsible for the entirety of the project execution. 

Key Skills:  

• Curios to learn more, active learner, and staying informed on the latest technologies.  
• Microsoft Suite: PPT, Outlook, Teams, Tasks, Word, Excel 
• 3D CAD: Intermediate.  
• General understanding of material science of polymers, elastomers, metallurgy, and organic/composite textiles with their corresponding manufacturing methods.  
• General understanding of manufacturing methods: 3D Printing, CNC, Injection Molding, Thermoforming, Sheet metal forming, Metal Injection Molding, Heat staking, Laser Welding, Adhesives, and other various assembling methods  
• General understanding of engineering concepts: Design for Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Computer Coding (C , Python, etc.) 

Qualifications  

• Pursuing or completing an engineering focused career path in mechanical, electro-mechanical, mechatronics, robotics, or similar discipline.  

Work Location:  

• Hybrid 
• Da Vinci Prime has a facility in Atlanta, GA where majority of the prototype constructions will be completed 

Required Resources:  

• Laptop 
• Da Vinci Prime will provide Onshape (3D CAD) License 

Job Type & Benefits:  

• Contract based