Senior Mechanical Engineer – Simulation & Analysis

Auto Store holds a simple yet powerful vision: to store and move things for everyone, everywhere. Founded in Norway, we've grown into a global technology company. Auto Store uses advanced software to automate and orchestrate order fulfillment. Our goal is to ensure orders arrive faster than ever, with minimal environmental impact. That’s how we help brands exceed customer expectations.

We have more than 1600 systems in nearly 60 countries, and we grow continuously as a community of employees, partners, customers, suppliers, and connected technologies. Automation should make life easier, and by listening carefully to our community, we innovate to meet the industry’s most complex needs. With Auto Store, brands gain speed, efficiency, improved workplaces, and much more floor space.

Auto Store – moving things forward.

The Role As a Senior Mechanical Engineer specializing in simulation and analysis at Auto Store, you will make simulation a core part of how we design new hardware. You will use FEA and dynamic analysis to answer design questions early, guide trade-offs, and catch problems before they reach a prototype or the field. You will also contribute hands-on mechanical design in CAD and help the team take hardware from rapid prototypes through pilot builds to production.

You will join the New Product Development Innovation Team in Atlanta and work closely with the Engineering Tools and Services team and the global Mechanical Simulation Center of Excellence. Day to day, you will partner with mechanical designers, test engineers and project leads on robots, grids, bins and new products.

This is a great role for someone who wants their analysis to drive real design decisions, and to see that work running in more than 1,600 systems worldwide.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities Plan and run structural, dynamic, fatigue and multibody simulations of Auto Store hardware, from components to full assemblies.

Work with design engineers from concept onward to turn design questions into the right analysis, and present clear recommendations.

Contribute to mechanical design in CAD: create and modify parts, assemblies and drawings, and update designs based on simulation results.

Support the team through rapid prototyping, pilot builds and production hardware, including design for manufacturability, tolerance and material decisions, supplier questions, build issues and compliance.

Mentor a new-graduate mechanical engineer on the team, guiding their design, analysis and prototyping work.

Validate models against lab and field test data, and state clearly how far the results can be trusted.

Support test planning so physical tests confirm and calibrate simulation results.

Run design studies, parameter sweeps and optimization to explore trade-offs in weight, cost, stiffness and durability.

Script and automate repetitive simulation workflows with the Engineering Tools and Services team.

Document methods, build reusable models, and share good simulation practice across R&D.Key Qualifications5+ years of experience applying mechanical simulation in product development, ideally for electromechanical or robotic products.

Hands-on expertise with FEA tools such as Ansys Mechanical, Abaqus, Simcenter or COMSOL Multiphysics, covering static, modal, dynamic and nonlinear analysis.

Experience with explicit dynamics or multibody tools such as LS-DYNA, MSC Adams or Simscape Multibody.

Strong grasp of solid mechanics, materials, fatigue and contact, and sound judgment on meshing, boundary conditions and model fidelity.

Experience correlating simulation with physical test data.

Proficiency in 3D CAD (e.g., Solid Works, Creo or NX): building and modifying parts, assemblies and drawings, not only preparing geometry for analysis.

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