AMCA
Senior Mechanical Engineer
$150K–$220K
El Segundo, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 1, 2026
- Location
- El Segundo, CA
El Segundo, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years required; 7+ years preferred. Preferred GD&T experience: 5+ years applying it to flight hardware.
- Education
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in aerospace, mechanical, manufacturing, or materials engineering, or engineering physics.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be U.S. persons under ITAR: U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or protected persons under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3).
About the job
Owns mechanical design and development of aerospace flight hardware from concept through qualification and production handoff, including customer and manufacturing coordination.
What you'll do
- Lead design, analysis, prototyping, qualification, and production handoff of mechanical and fluid-system components.
- Define technical direction, lead design reviews and investigations, and establish design and testing standards.
- Coordinate with customers, vendors, test and build engineers; mentor junior engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in aerospace, mechanical, manufacturing, or materials engineering, or engineering physics.
- 5+ years of mechanical or fluids design, analysis, and build experience.
- Demonstrated ownership of at least one component or subsystem from concept through qualification or flight.
- Track record of shipping hardware and strong understanding of thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and solid mechanics.
Nice to have
- Formal component qualification experience; pressurized, cryogenic, or high-pressure systems experience.
- GD&T, FEA, Siemens NX or similar CAD, failure investigations, and aerospace quality systems experience.
Pay
$150,000 — $220,000 USD base salary
Tools
FEA, Siemens NX, GD&T, AS9100, 8D
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