GITAI
Senior Mechanical Engineer
$155K–$200K
Los Angeles, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related engineering field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S.; this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Export-control eligibility requires U.S. citizenship, lawful U.S. permanent residency, refugee or asylum status, or eligibility to obtain required authorizations.
About the job
Leads project-level mechanical design from system architecture through detailed design, fabrication, integration, testing, and redesign of space and defense hardware.
What you'll do
- Lead mechanical design, trade studies, design reviews, and technical decisions across projects.
- Personally design, build, assemble, test, diagnose, and iterate hardware; accelerate the design-build-test cycle.
- Provide technical direction and review other engineers’ work while remaining hands-on.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related engineering field.
- 7+ years of hands-on mechanical engineering experience developing complex hardware.
- Personally taken hardware through concept, design, fabrication, assembly, test, and iteration; strong fundamentals in mechanical design, GD&T, materials, manufacturing processes, structural analysis, and system-level tradeoffs.
- Must be a U.S. citizen; role may require access to classified projects and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Pay
USD 155,000 to USD 200,000 annual base salary
Tools
CAD, GD&T
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