Location: Morrisville, NC
Category: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent
Date Added: 07/02/2026
Mid-Level Mechanical Engineer
Raleigh, NC (open to relocating candidates)
Join us at the forefront of industrial automation, where your mechanical engineering skills will help bring advanced equipment and ideas to life. As a Mid-level Mechanical Engineer, you’ll work on meaningful projects from concept through installation, partner with cross-functional teams, and help solve real engineering challenges for our customers.
This role is a great fit for someone who enjoys hands-on design, likes solving complex problems, and wants to see their work make a visible impact. You’ll have the chance to develop your technical skills, take ownership of projects, and build strong partnerships across teams.
What we’re looking for:
Required:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. A Mechatronics focus is a plus.
- 3+ years of experience in industrial automation design.
- Proficient in SolidWorks and related CAD/CAM computer tools
- Experience sizing actuators, servos, sensors, and pneumatics
- Knowledge of and experience with machining and other fabrication processes.
- Experience applying GD&T principles to part designs and drawings.
- Strong communication skills and experience working with outside vendors and suppliers to ensure parts meet design intent.
- Hands-on experience with prototyping, testing, and debugging.
- Experience with equipment installations and prove-off at customer sites.
- Experience designing robotic automation cells, including reach and cycle analysis, safety, and risk assessment.
Desired:
- Experience integrating machine vision and 3D laser sensors.
What you’ll do:
- Work with clients and internal teams to develop system concepts, define project requirements, and review project specifications.
- Review client parts, 3D models and drawings to understand part complexity, tolerances and variances.
- Help manage projects, including timelines, budgets, and coordination across teams, suppliers, and customers.
- Design complex machinery with pneumatic and electromechanical components.
- Design and integrate robots, EOAT, feeding devices and material handling cells.
- Lead internal and customer design reviews.
- Conduct risk assessments for machine safety systems and robotic cells.
- Produce high level designs and detail/assembly drawings for manufacturing.
- Partner with Electrical and Controls Engineering teams to support smooth system integration.
- Lead testing and debugging efforts during the build phase, working closely with other teams to identify issues and make adjustments.
- Oversee the building process of the equipment, leading a team of assemblers.
- Support equipment installation and help troubleshoot issues at customer sites when needed.
- Create technical documentation such as test plans and operating manuals.