Top Mechanical Engineering Jobs

Leads mechanical design and systems integration for aerospace turbomachinery, heat transfer, and environmental control products. Provides technical expertise across product design definition, customer proposals, supplier and production issue resolution, design-for-manufacturability, cost reduction, and digital engineering process improvements. Mentors designers, advances automation and design standards, and supports multiple commercial and military aircraft projects.

Design and manage CAD models, revisions, and bills of materials for physical products manufactured in-house. Develop prototypes, apply design-for-manufacturing expertise, and support the transition from rapid development to production. Collaborate with hardware, robotics, software, and field operations teams while improving engineering collaboration and CAD standards.

The Lead Design Engineer is responsible for Mechanical Flight Controls, ensuring safety and compliance with FAA regulations, providing design solutions, and collaborating across teams for aircraft safety and performance.

Designs and analyzes space electronics packaging, mechanical structures, and PCBs across the product lifecycle. Performs structural, thermal, dynamics, and vibration analyses; conducts trade studies, testing, validation, root-cause investigations, and corrective actions. Collaborates with electrical, satellite, supplier, and multidisciplinary engineering teams, documents compliance, supports make-or-buy decisions, tracks technical performance, and evaluates emerging technologies. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, California, with potential relocation support.

Seeking a Senior Design Engineer for Mechanical Flight Controls, overseeing design solutions, compliance, and troubleshooting for aerospace projects.

Design, analyze, integrate, test, and support mechanical systems for aerospace platforms across the full product lifecycle. Responsibilities include avionics packaging, harnessing, connector selection, structural design, CAD, engineering calculations, prototyping, production support, troubleshooting, and field operations. Collaborate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Program Management, and external suppliers to deliver reliable, buildable, and mission-ready hardware.

Design and develop environmental control systems for aircraft. Responsibilities include creating and validating air and vapor cycle performance models, conducting thermodynamic, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics analyses, defining system requirements, optimizing system models, documenting results, integrating hardware and software, and performing system verification, validation, and testing. The role collaborates with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver reliable, compliant aerospace solutions.

Supports mechanical design of opto-mechanical optical instruments and laser systems for space and tactical environments. Responsibilities span proposal development, detailed design, fabrication, assembly, testing, verification, CAD, requirements management, DFM, engineering changes, subcontractor coordination, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also includes mentoring engineers and potential team leadership.

Supports mechanical design of opto-mechanical instruments, optical payloads, and laser systems for space and tactical environments. Responsibilities span proposal development, detailed design, fabrication, assembly, testing, verification, CAD, requirements management, subcontractor coordination, manufacturing optimization, engineering changes, and cross-functional analysis. The role also includes mentoring engineers, collaborating with systems engineering and program management, and potential future team leadership.

Supports opto-mechanical design of optical instruments, laser systems, and space or tactical payloads from proposal through verification. Develops CAD designs, applies GD&T and design-for-manufacturing principles, manages engineering changes, verifies requirements, and supports fabrication, assembly, testing, and cross-functional analyses. The role includes subcontract coordination, customer and supplier collaboration, mentoring engineers, and potential team leadership.

Supports Air Force ICBM flight-test operations through mission planning, launch support, telemetry processing, trajectory and accuracy analysis, anomaly investigation, engineering modeling, statistical analysis, software tool development, and technical reporting for Minuteman III and Sentinel systems.

Lead mechanical design engineers developing gas turbine components, including blades, disks, seal plates, and vanes. Perform stress analysis and lifing for fatigue, creep, and burst using finite element modeling in NX and ANSYS. Provide technical mentorship, support engine certification testing and field issue resolution, implement MBSE processes, manage complex cross-functional projects, and communicate technical results to customers.

Leads cross-functional engineering teams through the full lifecycle of spacecraft and payload structures, mechanisms, antennas, or mechanical ground support equipment. Manages cost estimates, schedules, technical requirements, risks, opportunities, and project milestones through hardware delivery. Requires system-level thinking, leadership, communication, and coordination across organizational teams. Preferred experience includes EVMS, subsystem breadth, prototype-to-production ramps, and subcontract management.

Designs and develops mechanical hardware, packaging, mechanisms, components, and subsystems for advanced electronic defense systems. Performs static, dynamic, thermal, and structural analyses; coordinates prototype fabrication and environmental qualification testing; documents engineering results; prepares drawings, specifications, reports, and design reviews; provides technical direction; and supports product transition and continuous improvement.

Leads cross-functional mechanical engineering teams through spacecraft and defense subsystem projects from concept to hardware delivery. Responsibilities include managing cost estimates, schedules, technical requirements, risks, opportunities, and team accountability. The role requires system-level thinking, strong communication, leadership, and coordination across organizational units. Preferred experience includes EVMS, multiple subsystem types, prototype-to-production ramps, and subcontract management. Work is fully on-site and may involve production, laboratory, cleanroom, and outdoor environments.

Leads cross-functional mechanical engineering teams through spacecraft and defense subsystem projects from concept to hardware delivery. Manages cost estimates, schedules, technical requirements, risks, opportunities, and team accountability across the project lifecycle. Required qualifications include an engineering degree, six or more years of related experience, demonstrated leadership, strong systems thinking, and excellent communication. The role is fully on-site and requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain a polygraph clearance.

Lead mechanical design, integration, testing, production support, and troubleshooting for complex military systems. Create 3D models, drawings, and documentation; perform tolerance, thermal, structural, stress, modal, and vibration analyses; develop prototypes and test equipment; execute verification plans; resolve manufacturing and test issues; conduct root-cause analysis and corrective actions; support requirements development, trade studies, technology upgrades, and new business capture.

Designs and analyzes static gas turbine engine components using finite element and classical stress-analysis methods. Performs strength, fatigue, containment, heat-transfer, and other structural analyses; supports testing; coordinates projects; plans resources and schedules; conducts design reviews; manages compliance and risk; documents work; performs root-cause and corrective actions; and contributes to process development and improvement.

Designs mechanical packaging for EO/IR sensing systems, cameras, and electronics used in missile and military environments. Performs mechanical design, structural and thermal analysis, tolerance studies, prototyping, testing, supplier collaboration, and design reviews. Leads small multidisciplinary engineering teams, supports multiple development programs, manages schedule and budget constraints, and documents technical artifacts. The role requires electronics packaging expertise, CAD proficiency, military standards knowledge, and eligibility for a DoD Secret clearance.

Lead the design and development of robotic gloves, soft goods, grip surfaces, elastomeric components, and flexible protective interfaces for a humanoid robot. Develop materials, coatings, sensor integration, mechanical architectures, prototypes, validation methods, and serviceable production designs. Collaborate with manufacturing partners and cross-functional engineering teams from concept through production, troubleshoot failures, support DFM, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead mechanical design and integration of battery packs, enclosures, charging interfaces, and autonomous docking stations for humanoid robots. Drive mechanical architecture, structural and thermal analysis, prototyping, validation, reliability, manufacturability, supplier collaboration, and production support. Partner cross-functionally with electrical, controls, software, systems, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams while mentoring junior engineers and establishing design best practices.

Design and develop mechanical hardware for antenna and RF electronic systems from concept through detail design. Perform CAD modeling, design analysis, interface definition, risk mitigation, and support manufacturing, test, and sustaining engineering. Collaborate across integrated program teams and may manage subcontracts and production requirements.

Design mechanical solutions for antenna and RF electronic systems from concept through detail design. Duties include CAD modeling, requirement allocation, interface definition, performance analysis, risk mitigation, documentation, test planning, collaboration in integrated program teams, subcontract technical oversight, sustaining engineering, and support for manufacturability and additive manufacturing efforts. Must work on-site and be eligible for DoW Secret clearance.

Design and develop mechanical hardware for RF and antenna systems from concept through detail design. Perform CAD modeling, design analysis, interface definition, risk mitigation, and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams. Support schedules, testing, sustaining engineering, and subcontract management for defense/aerospace platforms.

Design and develop mechanical and actuated systems for autonomous UAVs, owning concept-to-production CAD, kinematic and structural analysis, FEA, prototyping, testing, and cross-functional integration to meet performance, schedule, and reliability goals.