Mechanical Engineer
Location
Calabasas, CA
Wage
$95,000 – $125,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 5, 2026
Location
Calabasas, CA
Wage
$95,000 – $125,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 5, 2026
Wunderlich-Malec Engineering (WM) is a 100% employee-owned ESOP and one of the largest and most well-established engineering companies in the United States. They are seeking a Mechanical Process Engineer for their Calabasas, CA location to perform various engineering duties in industrial plants.
At roughly $53/hr, this posting sits about 51% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs across California — toward the top of a $28–$48/hr middle band drawn from 450 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 78% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Calabasas, CA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across California as a whole we're tracking 586 other active welding openings from 266 employers. Browse welding jobs across California.
The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (37), Relativity Space (22), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (18). 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 $65/hr, Pasadena at $61/hr, and Santa Ana at $48/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 Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.