# Mechanical Engineer

Overview We’re hiring several Mechanical Engineers to design, build, and test structures and mechanisms for our interceptors. You’ll take parts and assemblies from CAD through fabrication and test, and see them fly. You’ll report to the Mechanical Engineering Lead and work closely with our senior engineers, who will review your work and help you grow. You’ll also work alongside the propulsion, aerodynamics, controls, and electrical engineers. At our size, you’ll get more ownership and hands-on time with flight hardware than you would almost anywhere else. What You’ll Do Design Design structural parts, brackets, housings, and mechanisms for the interceptor. Build CAD models and assemblies, and make clear drawings with GD&T. Run hand calculations and FEA to check that your designs can handle launch, flight, and vibration loads. Build Work with vendors and machine shops to get parts made, and inspect them when they arrive. Build and modify parts, fixtures, and assemblies in our in-house shop. Assemble and integrate hardware with the propulsion, avionics, and controls teams. Test Design and build test fixtures. Run structural, vibration, and environmental tests, and record the results.

- **Id**: 1245379
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/wardstone-mechanical-and-structural-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: El Segundo, 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**: 2026-07-08T22:27:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-18
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T15:40:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 129
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2323
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Air Defense, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 3806068
- **Name**: Wardstone
- **Domain**: wardstone.space
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/wardstone-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Gem

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 130000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 130000

## Technologies

- **GD&T** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 128

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T17:22:42Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 5
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.193
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 129
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 130000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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