Research And Development Technician
Location
Garden City, NY
Wage
$70,000 – $75,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 23, 2026
Location
Garden City, NY
Wage
$70,000 – $75,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 23, 2026
The R&D Technician, Aerospace Systems is responsible for the assembly, integration, instrumentation, testing, and troubleshooting of advanced aerospace hardware and subsystems. The technician will work closely with engineers to transform design concepts into functional prototypes and validate system performance.
At roughly $35/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across New York, whose middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 93 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 55% 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.
Garden City, NY is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 139 other active welding openings from 87 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across New York.
The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (12), Metropolitan Transportation Authority (6), and Alstom (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $45/hr and Brooklyn 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. Research And Development Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.