# Welding Engineer

Here at The Exploration Company, we are building spacecrafts for humanity. We are developing the technologies and capabilities needed to make space exploration more accessible. We are looking for a Welding Specialist Engineer to support the industrialization and production readiness of our next-generation thruster hardware, including EBW activities, orbital welding and laser-welded components for a high-thrust engine. This is an intermediate-level engineering role, working closely with and under the technical guidance of our Senior Welding Specialist Engineer. You will support electron beam welding (EBW) for our new thruster, laser-welding activities for a high-thrust engine and participate on the manufacturing of the orbital welding for the our Nyx capsule propulsion. You will bring practical knowledge and you will work with design, manufacturing, quality and production teams to turn robust welding requirements into repeatable, well-documented manufacturing processes. What you will do Support the development, implementation and continuous improvement of EBW processes for the new thruster and laser-welding processes for our high-thrust engine. Support orbital welding activities (b

- **Id**: 3839103
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/the-exploration-company-welding-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Bordeaux, France
- **Countries**: FR
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T20:15:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T18:36:57Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5837
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Aerospace Manufacturing, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 51900
- **Name**: The Exploration Company
- **Domain**: exploration.space
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/the-exploration-company>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 24
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.208
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 94
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

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

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T22:01:51Z

## Visa

- Country: FR; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 33; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 33 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 94
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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