Senior Mechanical Engineer - Structures
Location
Gardena, CA
Wage
$160,000 – $225,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 28, 2026
Location
Gardena, CA
Wage
$160,000 – $225,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 28, 2026
Singularity is an Aerospace & Defense startup based in Gardena, CA, founded by a team from SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin. They are looking for a skilled senior mechanical design engineer to design and develop ground structures for rocket and missile systems.
At roughly $93/hr, this posting sits about 180% above the $33/hr median for welding jobs across California — toward the top of a $27–$41/hr middle band drawn from 483 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Gardena, CA currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 627 other active welding openings from 305 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Gardena, or widen the search to California.
The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (31), 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 Redondo Beach at $51/hr, Santa Ana at $48/hr, and Long Beach at $40/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Senior Mechanical Engineer - Structures figures were last recalculated when this page was built.