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Overview

Join our dynamic engineering team in El Segundo, CA, where you'll design, prototype, and deliver innovative hardware solutions for real-world applications. As a Mechanical Engineer, you'll collaborate with experienced engineers and cross-functional teams to tackle complex hardware challenges, impacting mission-critical projects in defense and advanced technology initiatives.

Requirements

  • Experience working in hardware design, prototyping, 3D modeling and computer-aided drafting (CAD).
  • Knowledge of basic engineering and physics principles as they apply to hardware design and product development.
  • Knowledge of manufacturing technologies and approaches, including additive and subtractive manufacturing techniques.
  • Ability to develop technical documentation, including 2D technical drawings and written technical documentation.
  • Ability to collaborate with an integrated product team, including a variety of technical and non-technical teammates.
  • Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Location: El Segundo, CA
  • Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
  • Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week are eligible for benefits.

Benefits

Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in El Segundo, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $44/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $48/hr median for welding jobs in El Segundo, CA, whose middle half runs $38–$69/hr across 21 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 43% 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.

The local market in El Segundo, CA

We're tracking 25 other active welding openings in El Segundo, CA right now, from 12 different employers. 20 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 594 other active welding openings from 271 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.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (37), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (17), and Honeywell Aerospace (16). 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 Pasadena at $51/hr, Santa Ana at $48/hr, and El Segundo at $48/hr. El Segundo is among them.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Mechanical Build Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.