# Mechanical Engineer (Contract)

About Overlay Overlay is building the world's first intelligent makeup robot, reimagining beauty application through robotics, perception, and design. As a venture-backed, pre-launch startup, we're defining a new category of personal robotics at the intersection of self-expression and engineering. We're a small team inventing what doesn't yet exist and turning it into something beautiful. We're looking for a 6-month full-time contract with a Mechanical Engineer to support our in-house team. What You'll Own Run test plans and experiments, for example spray droplet size against nozzle and air pump settings Test pneumatics, and log flow, pressure, and temperature data Operate lab instruments, including a laser droplet-size analyzer and a viscometer Inspect molded and machined parts against drawings Build test rigs and fixtures, and assemble prototypes Support pump testing Keep clean data logs and write short test reports Juggle several projects, knowing dynamic prioritization is critical at this stage Embody our company values of ownership, velocity and craft What We're Looking For 2+ years of hands-on mechanical or test work (strong internships count) Reads engineering drawings, with

- **Id**: 4298814
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/overlay-mechanical-engineer-contract>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Oakland, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T23:54:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T21:58:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2771
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible time off
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Robotics, Machine Vision & 3D Cameras

## Company

- **Id**: 3806176
- **Name**: Overlay
- **Domain**: overlay.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/overlay-5>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Gem

## Technologies

- **GD&T** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T02:38:19Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 20
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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