Mechanical Engineer
Location
Cerritos, CA
Wage
$120,000 – $150,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Cerritos, CA
Wage
$120,000 – $150,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
The Mechanical Engineer will support the design, build, test, and validation of Subsurface Compressor Systems™ (SCS) as part of the engineering team. This role requires leadership in product development and a hands-on approach to problem solving in high-speed rotating machinery applications.
At roughly $65/hr, this posting sits about 85% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs across California — toward the top of a $29–$45/hr middle band drawn from 365 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% 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.
Cerritos, CA currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across California as a whole we're tracking 486 other active welding openings from 233 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Cerritos, 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 $49/hr, El Segundo at $48/hr, and Los Angeles at $44/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
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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 Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.