Senior Mechanical Simulation Engineer - Robotics

AutoStore; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Health Savings Account with company

Paid time off + holidays + parental/le

401(k) with employer match

Education & development programs

Life Insurance

Job summary

AutoStore seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer in Atlanta to make simulation a core part of hardware design. You will perform FEA and dynamic analyses to drive trade-offs early, guiding design choices and catching issues before prototypes reach the field.

You will also contribute hands-on CAD work and help move hardware from rapid prototypes through pilot builds to production, collaborating with designers, test engineers and project leads on robots, grids and new products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years applying mechanical simulation in product development, ideally electromechanical or robotic.
• Hands-on experience with major FEA tools covering static, modal, dynamic and nonlinear analysis.
• Experience with explicit dynamics or multibody tools and correlation with test data.
• Solid grounding in mechanics, materials, fatigue, and boundary conditions.
• Proficient in 3D CAD for building/altering parts and drawings, not just geometry prep.
• Experience taking designs to production with manufacturability, tolerance analysis, and safety standards.
• Clear communicator able to explain results and uncertainty to engineers and non-specialists.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run structural, dynamic, fatigue, and multibody simulations for AutoStore hardware.
• Collaborate with design engineers to translate questions into analysis and present clear recommendations.
• Contribute to CAD work, creating and modifying parts and assemblies and updating designs from results.
• Support rapid prototyping, pilot builds, and production hardware including DFM, tolerances, and material decisions.
• Mentor a new graduate mechanical engineer in design, analysis, and prototyping.
• Validate models against lab and field data and communicate confidence levels.
• Support test planning to confirm and calibrate simulation results.
• Run design studies, parameter sweeps, and optimization for weight, cost, stiffness, durability.
• Script and automate simulation workflows with the Engineering Tools and Services team.
• Document methods, build reusable models, and share simulation best practices across R&D.

Skills

Mechanical simulation

FEA tools

Explicit dynamics / multibody

Solid mechanics

CAD experience

DFM / DFA / GD&T

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

Ansys Mechanical

Abaqus

Simcenter

COMSOL Multiphysics

LS-DYNA

MSC Adams

SolidWorks

Creo

NX

Job description

AutoStore seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer in Atlanta to make simulation a core part of hardware design. You will perform FEA and dynamic analyses to drive trade-offs early, guiding design choices and catching issues before prototypes reach the field.

You will also contribute hands-on CAD work and help move hardware from rapid prototypes through pilot builds to production, collaborating with designers, test engineers and project leads on robots, grids and new products.