Antora Energy is seeking a highly-motivated Mechanical Design Engineer Intern to join our mission-driven team within the Mechanical Design Engineering organization. You will own and deliver an AI-powered engineering workflow improvement project that measurably accelerates a high-impact, repetitive, or error-prone process within our Module Design or Plant Design teams.
What You'll Do
- Identify, validate, and scope a high-impact engineering workflow bottleneck, such as drawing review, FEA, BOM management, or standards compliance.
- Design, prototype, test, and iterate on an AI-enabled tool or automated workflow that addresses the selected pain point, tracking clear before/after metrics.
- Partner closely with mechanical engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the solution fits real engineering constraints and integrates into existing tools and processes.
- Build a usable solution for other engineers, such as a lightweight internal app, script, or workflow integrated with Arena, SolidWorks PDM, Notion, or Google Sheets.
- Create thorough documentation and a handoff package, including user instructions, example prompts/scripts, and test cases.
- Drive team adoption by running walkthroughs, collecting feedback, and delivering a final demo and readout to stakeholders and leadership.
- Contribute to team discussions with curiosity, humility, and a willingness to learn in a fast-moving hardware environment.
What We're Looking For
- Outstanding writing and communications skills, with the ability to communicate at different levels of depth and in a wide variety of formats.
- Organizational and systems thinking: ability to build structure, create processes others can follow, and manage multiple workstreams.
- AI fluency: demonstrated experience building AI-assisted workflows or tools for complex projects and repeatable processes.
- AI experimentation mindset: proactively explores and iterates on new AI approaches and thinks critically about where AI adds value.
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in communications, journalism, marketing, design, business, engineering, or a related field.
Nice to Have
- Mechanical design fundamentals: strong grasp of CAD (SolidWorks preferred), GD&T, BOM structures, and engineering drawing interpretation; coursework or experience in structural or thermal analysis.
- AI fluency: demonstrated experience applying AI/ML tools like LLMs, computer vision, or NLP to real technical projects.
- AI experimentation mindset: comfortable with ambiguity; proactively explores new approaches and translates vague problems into concrete solutions.
- Strong problem-solving ability with a methodical approach to debugging, edge cases, and reliability.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document workflows for other engineers.
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in mechanical engineering or a related field.
Technical Stack
- CAD (SolidWorks preferred), GD&T, Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Arena, SolidWorks PDM, Notion, Google Sheets
- AI/ML tools (e.g., LLMs, computer vision, NLP)
Team & Environment
You will join the Mechanical Design Engineering organization, which spans Module Design and Plant Design. We are a team growing with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and build with humility and openness.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $35 USD per hour for undergraduates / $40 for post-graduates.
Work Mode
This is an onsite position located in San Jose, CA.
We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future where every industrial facility is powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.
