Senior Mechanical Engineer

Carson Meadows, NV 89701

Posted:

09/30/2026

Employment Type:

Direct Hire

Job Number:

32457

Job Location:

Onsite

Industry:

ALT - Alternative Energy

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Position Description:

Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Senior Mechanical Engineer with our client located in Carson City, NV.

We are hiring a Senior Mechanical Engineer to own the design, build, and test of major systems in our power plants.

You will set the technical direction for your subsystems, make the calls on architecture and trade-offs, and be the person the rest of the team looks to when the hardware does something unexpected.

You have done this before: you have takenplex mechanical systems from a blank page through detailed design, fabrication,missioning, and the failures in between, and you know what it takes to make high-power machinery run reliably.

Our product is inntly mechanical: high-speed rotating machinery, dynamic loads, and high-power temperature management.

You will go deep on these systems and raise the bar for how the whole team engineers. What we care about most is your first-principles judgment, your track record of shipping working hardware, and how fast you move from idea to tested result.

Job Responsibilities:

System Architecture and First-Principles Design:

Translate product and customer needs into clear functional requirements and system-level specifications

Set system bounds early with order-of-magnitude estimates, then drive the architecture to close first-principles tools fluently: free body diagrams, energy balances, pressure/flow estimates and thermal budgets

Make and own the hard trade-offs across cost, schedule, performance, and risk

Work with vendors, fabricators, and the founding team early and often to pressure-test ideas

Subsystem Ownership and Design:

Own one or more major subsystems end to end, from concept to as-built

Define the mechanical, electrical, and flow interfaces between subsystems and hold the team to them

Produce and direct 3D CAD for layouts, interfaces, and clash checks, and lead design reviews

Detailed Design and Analysis:

Drive designs to as-built fidelity, with drawings and specs that fabrication partners can build from without ambiguity

Set the analysis standard for the team. With high-power machinery, failures can be catastrophic, so you will make sure we rigorously check mechanical stresses, vibration and fatigue, contact loads, tolerance stack-ups, thermal growth, and fluids under pressure and temperature

Know when hand calculations are enough and when FEA or CFD is warranted, and be able to sanity-check either

Document analysis, design decisions, and reasoning clearly, and expect the same from others

Build, Test, and Commissioning:

Get hardware built and tested quickly. Speed to power is our edge

Manage fabrication partners and machine shops through quoting, build, inspection, and delivery

Design and lead test campaigns: structures, instrumentation, procedures, safety, and schedules

Lead root-cause investigations when things break, and turn findings into design changes fast

Test early and often. We win by finding problems fast and iterating quickly

Technical Leadership:

Mentor early-career engineers and raise the team's technical standard through review and example shape our engineering processes as we grow: design reviews, drawing standards, release, and configuration control

Influence hiring and help build the mechanical team around you

Job Qualifications:

You have 6+ years of mechanical engineering experience, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field

You have takenplex mechanical systems from concept through detailed design, fabrication, test, and field operation, and can walk us through the decisions and the failures

You have deep hands-on experience with high-speed rotating machinery, engines, turbomachinery, or similar high-energy systems

You are fluent in CAD and detailed design for manufacture, and you can read, write, and review drawings to a high standard

You have strong analytical fundamentals and sound judgment about when to calculate, when to simulate, and when to just build it and test it

You have led fabrication partners and test campaigns and know how to get hardware delivered on time

You want ownership, you make decisions without waiting for permission, and you move fast

Nice To Have:

Gas turbine, aeroderivative, or reciprocating engine experience

Gearboxes, couplings, generators, lubrication systems, or exhaust/environmental systems

Design of skids, enclosures, or packaged power equipment for outdoor or industrial environments

Rotordynamics, high-temperature materials, or high-pressure fluid systems

Commissioning, field service, or root-cause work on operating machinery

Time in a startup or small-team environment with real ownership, including building or leading a team

Job Details:

Job Type:

Direct Hire:

Salary Rate Range:

TBD

Location:

Carson City, NV (Onsite)