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Overview

The Engineering Technician - Junior/Entry Level position at Shinkei involves a hands-on role in building and integrating production machines. Technicians are responsible for executing work from engineering documentation, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring quality and production standards are met.

Responsibilities

  • Support the build, integration, debugging, and testing of robotic subsystems, production hardware, and test fixtures.
  • Assist with assembly of actuators, structures, fluid systems, harnesses, and other electro-mechanical assemblies.
  • Perform harness builds, rework, and routing for development and production units.
  • Assist with troubleshooting assemblies and root-cause investigations.
  • Maintain a clean, organized lab and production environment and help manage tools and spare inventory.
  • Support field deployments and hardware upgrades.
  • Work with the Production Coordinator to meet build timelines and production goals.
  • Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and software engineers to bring prototypes to life.

Requirements

  • Strong mechanical aptitude and familiarity with hand tools, power tools, and fabrication.
  • Ability or willingness to learn how to read mechanical drawings, wiring schematics, and harness diagrams.
  • Hands-on experience with mechanical or electro-mechanical assemblies.
  • Comfort working with or willingness to learn about motors, actuators, sensors, PCBAs, and wiring.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced R&D environment.
  • Strong attention to detail and pride in workmanship.
  • Proactive, dependable, and willing to take ownership of assigned work.
  • Willingness to learn on the job, ask questions, and apply feedback.

Benefits

  • Competitive hourly pay with potential to increase with experience
  • Collaborative, engineering-first team culture
  • Hands-on experience with meaningful hardware from lab to ocean
  • Tools and autonomy to take ownership of your work
  • Occasional travel to docks and deployment sites for real-world testing

Additional Information

  • A freezer full of Seremoni Grade fish.

Benefits

Competitive hourly pay with potential to increase with experience
Collaborative, engineering-first team culture
Hands-on experience with meaningful hardware from lab to ocean
Tools and autonomy to take ownership of your work
Occasional travel to docks and deployment sites for real-world testing
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How this job compares in El Segundo, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting comes in about 25% below the $38/hr median for welding jobs in El Segundo, CA, where the middle half runs $38–$58/hr across 18 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in El Segundo, CA

We're tracking 23 other active welding openings in El Segundo, CA right now, from 10 different employers. 16 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 574 other active welding openings from 267 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in El Segundo, or widen the search to California.

Shinkei currently has 1 other opening 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), Vast (22), and Relativity Space (20). 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 $71/hr, Long Beach at $54/hr, and Torrance at $43/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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