Mechanical Design Engineer
Location
Brea, CA
Wage
$83,800 – $111,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 5, 2026
Location
Brea, CA
Wage
$83,800 – $111,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 5, 2026
As a Mechanical Engineer at Enertech, a business unit of Curtiss-Wright, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, analyze, and test components for advanced nuclear reactor projects. This role is ideal for early-career engineers who enjoy hands-on work and problem-solving in a dynamic environment.
At roughly $47/hr, this posting sits about 34% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs across California — toward the top of a $29–$46/hr middle band drawn from 355 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 76% 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.
Brea, CA currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 473 other active welding openings from 229 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Brea, or widen the search to California.
Curtiss-Wright Corporation 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 (35), Relativity Space (14), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (14). 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 Long Beach at $49/hr, El Segundo at $48/hr, and Los Angeles at $46/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. Mechanical Design Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.