# Principal Mechanical Engineer

About the Role Join a small defense technology team developing autonomous directed-energy systems for counter-drone applications. As Principal Mechanical Engineer, you will own system-wide mechanical architecture and help take complex hardware from prototype through production and field deployment. What You'll Do Lead mechanical architecture and integration across electrical, power, embedded, and optics subsystems. Make technical decisions on challenging hardware problems from concept through production readiness. Guide hardware release and production processes in partnership with manufacturing teams. Review designs, calculations, and test results to identify risks early and maintain high engineering standards. Personally execute mechanical design work when your experience can resolve a problem quickly. Balance cost, mass, reliability, schedule, and field performance in design and manufacturing decisions. Mentor engineers through hands-on technical leadership and design reviews. What We're Looking For 10 or more years designing and shipping complex hardware systems, including multiple transitions from prototype through manufacturing and deployment. Mechanical engineering is

- **Id**: 3834350
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-principal-mechanical-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T17:28:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T09:57:43Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2200
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 235000
- **Max**: 305000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 305000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T20:30:05Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 51; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 51 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 29
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.327
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:0, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 305000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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