# Mechanical Engineer

About Shift5 Shift5 is building the data platform for onboard operational technology (OT). We deliver cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and compliance capabilities that enable defense and commercial fleets to operate with greater readiness, resilience, and mission assurance. We are seeking a mission-aligned Mechanical Engineer to drive the mechanical design, development and integration of cutting-edge rugged hardware for data collection and processing on the edge. This role sits at the intersection of Mechanical Design, Hardware Lifecycle Management, and Aerospace/Defense Compliance and will play a critical role in supporting Shift5’s next phase of growth. This is an active, in-office and field-oriented role. It requires a desire to get hands-on in the field with customer platforms, technical fluency in mechanical design, ownership of the full hardware development lifecycle, an ambitious mindset to do whatever it takes, and the relentless drive needed to solve the toughest problems facing our customers. What You'll Do Design and develop ruggedized electronic enclosure assemblies and custom mechanical installation kits using first-principles physics and engineering analysis to

- **Id**: 1150167
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shift-5-mechanical-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: inferred_payroll_markers
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-23T17:12:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T20:40:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 49
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5166
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Predictive Analytics, IoT Security, Industrial IoT (IIoT)

## Company

- **Id**: 12103
- **Name**: Shift5
- **Domain**: shift5.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shift-5>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 110000
- **Max**: 150000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 150000

## Technologies

- **AS9100** — Optional: no
- **DO-160** — Optional: no
- **MIL-STD-810** — Optional: no
- **Siemens NX** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 49

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-23T17:24:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 32
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.589
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 48
- **Expected fill days**: 33
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 150000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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