LEM Manufacturing Engineering intern

Company Overview
Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.
Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.
Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.
We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:
Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.
Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.
Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.
More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com
Job Overview
Mainspring is seeking a Manufacturing Engineering Intern with mechanical engineering and CAD design experience, interested in developing manufacturing and assembly processes, equipment, tools and fixtures. You will work under the guidance of our engineering team to transition our breakthrough new technology into volume manufacturing. You will be hands-on in both design and on the shop floor at our Pilot Manufacturing facility in Menlo Park California, directly involved in setting up and optimizing our final assembly and test processes

Responsibilities

• Document and implement assembly process sequence, visual assembly instructions and traceability documentation of a manufacturing process
• Develop and validate new manufacturing processes for various subsystems, propose and implement work standards and process productivity improvements
• Use SolidWorks to design tooling & fixtures, release to fabrication 2D drawing with GD&T for individual parts and assemblies
• Coordinate fabrication of released parts in-house on 3D printers or through outside machine shops
• Build, test and validate tooling and assembly fixtures and workstations
• Detail tasks, time, quality parameters and process recipe

Qualifications

• College student in their last 2 years of BS or in MS program in Mechanical
• Engineering, Mechatronic, Electrical Engineering (or equivalent)
• Experience designing, including GD&T, from concept to detailing tools and fixtures
• Hands-on mechanical assembly experience and knowledge of machining and various fabrication techniques (CNC/manual machining, welding, sheet metal forming, etc.)
• The ability to communicate well with other departments about the tracking and management of projects. (supply chain, quality, R&D, etc.)

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles