Mechanisms Engineer II
Location
Long Beach, CA
Wage
$90,000 – $135,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 5, 2026
Location
Long Beach, CA
Wage
$90,000 – $135,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 5, 2026
True Anomaly is seeking a motivated and hands-on Mechanisms Engineer II to join their Mechanisms team, contributing to the design, development, build, and test of precision motor-driven actuation systems for orbital platforms, impacting spaceflight hardware.
At roughly $54/hr, this posting sits about 26% above the $43/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA — toward the top of a $35–$55/hr middle band drawn from 45 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 64% 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.
We're tracking 53 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 20 different employers. 20 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 586 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 Long Beach, or widen the search to California.
True Anomaly 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 (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. Mechanisms Engineer II figures were last recalculated when this page was built.