# Senior Mechanical Engineer

About the Role Own major mechanical subsystems for ruggedized, field-deployable directed-energy systems, from architecture through production handoff. You will work across a lean engineering team to ensure systems perform reliably in demanding field conditions. What You'll Do Design and validate mechanical subsystems, including laser enclosures, beam director structures, gimbals, and precision mounts. Perform static, modal, random vibration, and shock response spectrum FEA, then correlate results with bench and field testing. Develop thermal management solutions for high-power laser and electronics packaging across thermal cycles. Build, instrument, and operate test rigs to characterize system behavior before field deployment. Design for MIL-STD-810 shock and vibration requirements and other austere environments. Take designs from concept through prototyping, validation, and manufacturing handoff. Collaborate with senior engineers, lead design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and travel to field tests. What We're Looking For At least 5 years of mechanical engineering experience on ruggedized, field-deployable, or high-performance systems, including taking a subsystem from p

- **Id**: 4320176
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-senior-mechanical-engineer-5>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Detroit, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T17:03:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T19:35:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2038
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space & Aerospace

## 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**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 165000
- **Max**: 210000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 210000

## Technologies

- **Abaqus** — Optional: no
- **ANSYS** — Optional: no
- **MIL-STD-810** — Optional: no
- **Nastran** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T19:35:39Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 41; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 41 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T21:54:26Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 210000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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