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Overview

General Matter is a company focused on enriching uranium to provide low-cost nuclear fuel for advanced technologies. The Summer 2027 Internship in Mechanical Engineering offers hands-on experience in designing, building, and testing mechanical structures for enrichment technology.

Responsibilities

  • Support the design of mechanisms and mechanical structures for testing and/or enrichment.
  • Experience the entire product lifecycle including requirements definition, design, development, qualification, and release to production.
  • Support optimization of designs for cost, performance, and manufacturability.
  • Contribute to testing hardware through thermal, vibe, shock, durability, etc.
  • Perform root-cause analysis on test failures and develop hardware mitigations.
  • Work closely with electrical, software, manufacturing, and nuclear engineers to ensure designs are effectively integrated with overall system requirements.

Requirements

  • Current undergraduate or graduate student pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Hands-on experience with mechanical design, prototyping, or analysis of structural or mechanism components.
  • Familiarity with CAD tools (NX, SolidWorks, or similar) and exposure to FEA or engineering coding languages like Python or MATLAB.
  • Collaborative team member who thrives in fast-paced, multidisciplinary environments and is eager to learn.
  • Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals.

Benefits

  • Housing Stipend
  • Overtime Pay

Additional Information

  • Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.

Benefits

Housing Stipend
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How this job compares in Torrance, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs in Torrance, CA, whose middle half runs $26–$67/hr across 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 64% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Torrance, CA

We're tracking 46 other active welding openings in Torrance, CA right now, from 16 different employers. 13 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 596 other active welding openings from 294 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Torrance, or widen the search to California.

General Matter currently has 7 other openings live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (34), Aerotek (16), and Volt (16). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Santa Ana at $48/hr, Los Angeles at $45/hr, and El Segundo at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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