Mechanical Engineering Intern - Summer 2026

Who We Are:

Carnegie Robotics designs and manufactures advanced robotics systems and components for defense, agricultural, mining, industrial, and off-road autonomy applications. Our ruggedized solutions can meet the challenges of any industry, providing effective and efficient answers for even the toughest problems.

What We’re Looking For:

Carnegie Robotics seeks outstanding students for our internships and co-ops. We view internships as excellent opportunities for us to learn about future potential full-time hires while also contributing to students' education and their understanding of work practices in an engineering setting. Many of our interns return annually and take on ever more challenging tasks. Please note that this is a full time, on-site position.

We accept college sophomore, junior, senior, masters and PhD level students. In all cases we expect to see excellent grades, work ethic and a strong desire to accomplish goals. We pay well and will help you grow beyond your technical comfort zone

As part of the internship, you will present your work to the leadership team of CRL (CEO, Chief Scientist, Staff Engineers etc.) as well as to the other mentors and interns. This is a great opportunity to learn presentation skills, document your work, and answer technical questions.

Work assigned to interns depends largely on business needs at the time of internship. Some examples of previous areas of focus included:

Design

• Contributing to a camera housing that later entered production 
• Designing a vacuum form mold for a robot body panel
• Designing optical alignment tooling for the production team
• Designing a custom test for a robotic component or subsystem
• Helping develop a test apparatus to simulate the motion of a pipe inspection camera

Testing and Analysis

• Analyzing production performance data on camera build quality and speed
• Performing thermal analysis on an embedded computer
• Performing finite element analysis to determine the vibration performance of a camera
• Analyzing test and field failures of robot components and proposing redesign
• Performing thermal analysis of high performance, fanless computer operating in a rugged environment
• Performing salt spray and vibration testing of rugged cameras.
• Assisting with live field testing a marine perception system in a Pittsburgh marina

Interfacing with a Multidisciplinary team

• Learning about computer vision camera models and computer vision algorithms
• Testing and documenting robot performance

Successful Mechanical Internship candidates often bring the following to Carnegie Robotics:

• A hands-on approach to engineering; an interest in learning how to tool and machine designs, have an iterative approach, and the curiosity to see a project through to completion
• A portfolio showing their own designed and built complex engineering projects (If your academic coursework is more team based, we’re interested in how and what you contributed)
• Participation in a club or activity where teamwork and collaboration are emphasized - whether it’s First Robotics in High School, a Society of Engineers, Formula SAE, SAE Baja, SAE Aero, or a non-engineering interest, we’re interested in how you interact and engage with others, build upon ideas, collaborate, and work through challenges as a team
• A thorough understanding of their engineering coursework in school; we find interns that exercise and utilize fundamental engineering principles are successful
• Some experience using computer aided design software packages. Although Carnegie Robotics primarily uses SolidWorks, experience in Unigraphics, Creo, Fusion 360, Autodesk Inventor, or similar is helpful

Hourly wage range is based on education and experience

Carnegie Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes applications from all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable laws and Carnegie Robotics’ employment policies.