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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, supporting both defense and advanced technology initiatives.

Requirements

  • Experience working in hardware design, prototyping, 3D modeling and computer-aided drafting (CAD) in an internship, school projects, or in a professional work environment
  • 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
  • Secret clearance
  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering or technology field

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Location: El Segundo, CA
  • Secret clearance is required
  • 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 comes in about 21% below the $55/hr median for welding jobs in El Segundo, CA, where the middle half runs $38–$77/hr across 16 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 44% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in El Segundo, CA

We're tracking 18 other active welding openings in El Segundo, CA right now, from 8 different employers. 4 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 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 (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 El Segundo at $55/hr, Long Beach at $49/hr, and Los Angeles at $44/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.