# Senior Mechanical Engineer

Role Description: In this role, you will be responsible for all mechanical aspects of the product, working closely with hardware, production, operations, and product teams. The role includes technical leadership of complex mechanical designs, including: Design from scratch alongside retrofitting and improving existing designs. Complex thermal management. Withstanding dynamic profiles (mainly vehicle-related and wind loads). Protection against electromagnetic interference (EMI/EMC). Design for sealing. Requirements: B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. At least 10 years of experience in mechanical design and development, preferably in a multidisciplinary environment (significant advantage for experience in the defense industry). Proven experience in the technical leadership of complex products and systems development from the concept phase, through characterization, to serial production and New Product Introduction (NPI). Proven experience in advanced engineering design to withstand static, dynamic, and thermal loads. Deep familiarity with thermal materials, including the use of thermal pads, thermal grease/paste, thermally conductive adhesives, heat pipes, vapor chambers, and more - M

- **Id**: 4077906
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/d-fend-solutions-senior-mechanical-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Ra'anana, Israel
- **Countries**: IL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T12:42:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T09:17:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2419
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Air Defense, Electronic Warfare, Homeland Security

## Company

- **Id**: 3468
- **Name**: D-Fend Solutions
- **Domain**: dfendsolutions.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dfendsolutions>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 92
- **Open postings**: 16
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.125
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 88
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T16:05:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 88
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:04:44Z

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