Junior Mechanical Engineer

Incline Vlg, NV 89451

Posted:

09/30/2026

Employment Type:

Direct Hire

Job Number:

32456

Job Location:

Hybrid

Industry:

ALT - Alternative Energy

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:

Junior Mechanical Engineer

Position Description:

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

We are hiring an early-career Mechanical Engineer to help design, build, and test keyponents of our power plants.

You will work closely with senior engineers on real hardware from day one.

We do not expect you to know everythinging in, but we do expect you to have gotten your hands dirty somew: a research lab, a capstone, an internship, Formula SAE, a personal build, anything w you turned a design into a physical thing that worked (or failed and taught you why).

Our product is inntly mechanical: high-speed rotating machinery, dynamic loads, and high-power temperature management. You will learn these systems deeply. What we care about most is how you think from first principles and how fast you move from idea to tested hardware.

Job Responsibilities:

Concept Engineering and First-Principles Design:

translate design challenges into clear functional requirements

Build early concept designs using order-of-magnitude estimates to set system bounds first-principles tools: free body diagrams, energy balances, pressure/flow estimates

Talk to vendors and the team early and often to pressure-test ideas

CAD and Subsystem Design:

Produce 3D CAD models ofponents to inform layouts, interfaces, and clash checks define subsystem specs and the mechanical, electrical, and flow interfaces between them

Detailed Design and Analysis:

Develop higher-fidelity CAD toward as-built level under guidance from senior engineers

Learn to analyze designs carefully. With high-power machinery, failures can be catastrophic, so we build the habit of checking: mechanical stresses, vibration and fatigue, contact loads, tolerance stack-ups, thermal growth, and fluids under pressure and temperature

Document your analysis, design decisions, and reasoning clearly and concisely

Build and Test:

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

Hand detailed drawings to fabrication partners and follow parts through to delivery develop test setups: structures, sensors, and schedules

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

Job Qualifications:

You have a degree (or are finishing one) in Mechanical Engineering or a related field

You have hands-on hardware experience from a lab, capstone, internship,petition team, or personal project

You can show an example of taking something from concept through design to a built and tested result

You arefortable with CAD and core mechanical engineering fundamentals

You are excited to own problems, ask for help when stuck, and move fast

Nice To Have:

Coursework, research, or project experience with turbomachinery, engines, or rotating equipment

Work involving high temperature, pressure, or speed conditions

Exposure to gearboxes, couplings, generators, lubrication systems, or exhaust/environmental systems

Time in a startup, lab, or small-team environment with real ownership

Job Details:

Job Type:

Direct Hire

Salary:

TBD

Location:

Carson City, NV (Onsite)