Gearbox Actuator Design & ANSYS

I’m developing a compact gearbox-based actuator and need a mechanical engineer who can carry the concept all the way through detailed verification in ANSYS. Your job starts with refining my preliminary sketches (or proposing your own concept if it proves better), modelling each gear, shaft, housing and bearing, and then setting up all necessary simulations inside ANSYS Workbench. The core objective is to confirm the design’s reliability under realistic loads: bending and torsion on the shafts, contact stresses on the gears, bolt preload in the housing, and overall deformation. Alongside static strength, I also want to see motion behaviour over a full duty cycle so I can verify backlash, efficiency and potential resonance points. If you already have macros or scripts that speed up these studies, all the better. Once the results are in, I’ll need recommendations on material grades, surface treatments and any geometric tweaks that improve durability or reduce weight without driving up machining costs. Organise the findings clearly—screen grabs, contour plots, safety factors—so they can be dropped straight into my project file and shown to the machinist. Deliverables • Parametric 3D CAD files (STEP or native SolidWorks/Inventor) • Complete ANSYS workbench file(s) with solved studies • PDF report summarising loads, boundary conditions, assumptions, results and design changes • Final manufacturing drawings with tolerances, fits and a revision block I will be available daily for quick clarifications and can share load specs, space constraints and photos of the surrounding assembly on request. Let me know your preferred CAD package, ANSYS version and estimated turnaround time so we can lock in milestones right away. I need the freelancer to share their portfolio as a pdf first then only I can choose