Mechanical Engineer, Missile Defense III
Location
Long Beach, CA
Wage
$110,000 – $165,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 30, 2026
Location
Long Beach, CA
Wage
$110,000 – $165,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 30, 2026
True Anomaly is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to design and develop flight hardware for missile defense systems, contributing to the advancement of technology for space superiority.
At roughly $66/hr, this posting sits about 38% above the $48/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA — toward the top of a $34–$54/hr middle band drawn from 37 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 84% 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 42 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 17 different employers. 11 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 486 other active welding openings from 233 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.
The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (35), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (17), and Relativity Space (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 $48/hr, El Segundo at $48/hr, and Los Angeles at $44/hr. Long Beach is among them.
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, Missile Defense III figures were last recalculated when this page was built.