Mechanical Design Engineering Intern

Job Description

Mechanical Design Engineering Intern | Antora

The Tone:
This is a temporary internship at Antora, located in San Jose, CA. Antora builds and deploys thermal energy storage systems to power always-on industrial operations and data centers with reliable, low-cost energy. This role is crucial for improving engineering workflows with AI, directly contributing to the company’s mission of electrifying global industry and supporting U.S. manufacturing.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Temporary (10 weeks)
• Location: San Jose, CA
• Pay: $35–$40 hourly
• Team: Mechanical Design Engineering organization (spanning Module Design and Plant Design)
• Mission: Own and deliver an AI-powered engineering workflow improvement project that measurably accelerates a high-impact, repetitive, or error-prone process.
• Tech Stack: CAD/PDM, Arena, SolidWorks PDM, Notion, Google Sheets, LLMs, computer vision, NLP, SolidWorks

What You’ll Actually Do
• Identify: Pinpoint and scope a high-impact engineering workflow bottleneck within Module Design or Plant Design.
• Develop: Design, prototype, test, and iterate on an AI-enabled tool or automated workflow to address the identified pain point.
• Collaborate: Partner closely with mechanical engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the solution fits real engineering constraints and integrates into existing tools.
• Build: Create a usable solution for other engineers, such as a lightweight internal app, script, or workflow integrated with existing systems.
• Deliver: Create thorough documentation, a handoff package, user instructions, and drive team adoption through walkthroughs and a final demo.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in communications, journalism, marketing, design, business, engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: Demonstrated experience building AI-assisted workflows or tools for complex projects and repeatable processes.
• Skills: Outstanding writing and communications skills, organizational and systems thinking, AI fluency with an experimentation mindset, and strong problem-solving ability.
• Bonus: Strong grasp of mechanical design fundamentals (CAD, GD&T, BOM structures, engineering drawing interpretation), coursework or experience in structural and/or thermal analysis, and/or currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in mechanical engineering or a related field.