mechanical engineer

Velocity Bolting; Burnaby; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Velocity Bolting is seeking a hands-on R&D Mechanical Engineer I in Burnaby, BC, to take concepts from CAD through test stands and into real-world data. You will design, build, and validate experimental platforms essential to accelerating product development.

You will own SolidWorks models, GD&T, tolerancing, and tooling for a family of variants, run simulations, and document results to speed design iterations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on mechanical design experience.
• Familiar with GD&T and tolerancing.
• Ability to model in CAD and build/test fixtures.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a physical test platform for validating product performance.
• Experimentally validate hydraulic design by testing prototypes to failure.
• Create fully parameterized SolidWorks models and manufacturing drawings.
• Establish lab processes for prototypes, parts, and samples.

Skills

Mechanical design

Solid understanding of design

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

R&D Mechanical Engineer I

Who We Are

Velocity Bolting designs engineered products that solve the most complex bolting problems in the world. Our patented Velocity Washer technology is used globally by the largest industrial players, helping them work more safely, efficiently, and reliably in demanding environments. We're in the process of launching our next product.

We have lots of gritty startup energy, but we're past the ?idea stage?. We have real product?market fit, customers around the world, and growing traction across multiple industries. Our work sits at the intersection of engineering, manufacturing, and real-world industrial application - where problems are hard, constraints are real, and solutions actually matter.

Team Values

• Works collaboratively to solve complex problems.
• Cares about building a sustainable, long-term business.
• Takes pride in doing high-quality work.
• And genuinely enjoys working together along the way.

The Mission

Accelerate new product development by owning the execution of our engineering and lab work. Model it, build it, test it, document it - so that design iteration is never waiting on capacity, and so the people designing new products get real data back fast enough to act on it.

Summary

tl;dr - You are a hands‑on mechanical engineer who can take a concept from CAD to a test stand and tell us what actually happened.

Why Now

We're bringing multiple novel products to market over the next twelve months, and we're designing and building a new R&D lab to support them. You're joining early enough to shape how that lab works - the test stands, the fixtures, the methods, the way data gets captured - rather than inheriting someone else's setup.

The first physical test platform is yours to design and build.

What Success Looks Like

This role is measured against a hiring scorecard with specific, agreed targets. These are the outcomes - how you hit them is up to you. Directionally, in your first 12 months you would:

• Design and build a physical test platform for validating product performance - the rig and fixturing itself, not just the data and simulation side.
• Experimentally validate our hydraulic design model by testing prototypes to failure on that stand.
• Experimentally determine K-values for a novel product.
• Establish and run the lab's inbound and outbound process for prototypes, parts, and samples.
• Produce fully parameterized models and manufacturing drawings for a novel product and a Velocity Washer design revision.
• Assess and optimize a novel product and all Velocity Washer variants using design automation.
• Proactively pick up the engineering and lab work that frees the rest of the team to build new tools and models faster.

What You'll Own

Design & Analysis:

• Fully parameterized SolidWorks models and manufacturing drawings, with GD&T and tolerancing that hold up at the supplier.
• Simulation work, and the validation that tells us whether the model was right.
• Design automation - building the tooling that lets us evaluate a family of variants instead of one part at a time.
• Analysis

Location & Compensation

• Location: Burnaby, BC
• Work location: On site
• Salary: $ 80,000 to $ 88,000 YEAR annually
• Terms of employment: Full time
• Starts as soon as possible
• Vacancies: 1 vacancy