Inventive Mechanical R&D Engineer

Hub; København; On-site; DKK 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Insurance

Lunch at office

Flexible working

Job summary

Levitate is seeking a Mechanical R&D Engineer to join the R&D team in Copenhagen. This role focuses on inventive mechanical solutions, from concept through prototyping, testing, verification, and production, collaborating with clinicians and end-users for real-world feedback.

You will contribute across mechanics, materials, and manufacturing technologies, pushing creative, high-performance designs while maintaining manufacturability and reliability.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field
• Significant experience developing physical products with excellent CAD and mechanical design skills
• Strong understanding of mechanics, materials, and structural behavior
• Experience with mechanisms/moving assemblies, hands-on prototyping, CNC machining, and other manufacturing processes
• Experience with fatigue/static/functional testing, and designing test setups or fixtures
• Understanding of verification and validation, and experience moving products toward manufacturing
• Strong analytical and root-cause problem-solving skills
• Ability to work directly with suppliers
• Proven experience developing highly loaded mechanical products (prosthetics, medical devices, bicycles, sporting goods, automotive components, robotics, or similar)
• Demonstrated, repeated experience taking products through the full lifecycle, concept through engineering, testing, industrialization, launch, and post-market optimization, multiple times in your career, with concrete evidence of what you've personally built and solved

Responsibilities

• Exploring and developing new mechanical concepts and technologies
• Mechanical design, CAD, and mechanism development
• Materials selection and structural engineering
• Rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept builds
• Designing test fixtures and dedicated test machines
• Static, fatigue, functional, and durability testing; verification and validation
• Working with relevant ISO standards
• Failure analysis and root-cause investigation
• Design for manufacturing and assembly; working directly with suppliers
• Supporting other engineers and helping strengthen testing/verification practices R&D-wide
• Taking concepts from whiteboard idea to something manufacturable and trustworthy

Skills

CAD

Mechanics

Prototyping

Materials knowledge

Problem-solving

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

CNC machining

Job description

Levitate is seeking a Mechanical R&D Engineer to join the R&D team in Copenhagen. This role focuses on inventive mechanical solutions, from concept through prototyping, testing, verification, and production, collaborating with clinicians and end-users for real-world feedback.

You will contribute across mechanics, materials, and manufacturing technologies, pushing creative, high-performance designs while maintaining manufacturability and reliability.