# Mechanical Engineer II

Join a team developing the next generation of drilling technology. The Mechanical Engineer II helps turn bold ideas into rugged, high-performance equipment by designing innovative mechanisms, robotic and autonomous systems, precision motion systems, and new mechanical solutions for demanding oilfield applications. This role combines hands-on problem solving with research and development: breaking complex mechanisms back to first principles, defining loads and motions, evaluating concepts, and using engineering analysis to prove that designs will perform safely and reliably. Engineers follow their projects through the complete product lifecycle-from concept development and detailed design through manufacturing, assembly, testing, field deployment, and continuous improvement-gaining direct ownership of how their ideas perform in the real world. Working with experienced engineers, controls teams, Manufacturing, Quality, customers, and vendors, this position offers the opportunity to improve existing products, originate new concepts, contribute to patentable innovations, and grow toward independent ownership of major design challenges. Essential functions are organized by the core ski

- **Id**: 4298233
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nabors-industries-mechanical-engineer-ii>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Houston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T20:05:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T02:23:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7743
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Machinery, Oil & Gas

## Company

- **Id**: 1046501
- **Name**: Nabors Industries
- **Domain**: nabors.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nabors-industries>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 46
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.783
- **Repost share**: 0.022
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 37
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **ANSYS** — Optional: no
- **AutoCAD** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T02:23:51Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 37
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T04:40:49Z

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