Senior Mechanical Generalist

Headcount: 1

Contract: Long-term contract-to-hire; Start: 2026-10-16

Why Hiring

• Own mechanical design problems from first principles through released hardware, including new design and production/sustainment.
• Support deployable command centers, mobile/edge compute in roughly 20-foot conex and shipping-container form factors, and launched missile, drone, and electromagnetic systems.

End Product

• Design sheet-metal brackets, enclosures, junction boxes, covers, shields, and installation hardware.
• Design weldments and larger structures, including skid-rated frames, conex-style structures, and chassis.
• Design machined parts when sheet metal is not the right process.
• Integrate electro-mechanical hardware including power systems, batteries, harness and conduit routing, hydraulics, actuators, and lifting hardware, depending on the program.
• Produce Siemens NX 3D models and complete 2D production and assembly drawings, released through Teamcenter.
• Resolve field and production failures involving cracking, corrosion, fastener and edge issues, and shop-reported manufacturability problems.

Tech / Domain Environment

• Work cross-functionally with manufacturing, systems, and electrical.
• Join program core teams typically comprising 4 to 8 mechanical engineers within a roughly 40-person mechanical and electro-mechanical group.

Job Duties

• Take loosely defined problems from concept through internal design reviews.
• Model in NX, apply GD&T, and produce vendor-buildable 2D drawings; PMI is not the release method.
• Use existing NX automation for drawing notes, title blocks, datum schemes, and parts lists; journal files and macros are in use.
• Release designs through Teamcenter with manufacturing and purchasing review.
• Interface with vendors and shops on DFM/DFA, weld callouts, and coatings to achieve correct manufacture.
• Own existing-program fixes by selecting an approach, implementing it, and getting it manufactured.

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent hands-on design depth.
• Primary sheet-metal design experience, including bend-radius decisions based on thickness, temper, and alloy; selection among 5052, 6061-T6, and 7075; and knowledge of bend suitability.
• Sheet-metal design knowledge of hole-to-edge and fastener-pitch rules of thumb and when analysis is needed.
• Design laser-cut and bent/formed parts, flanges, formed or welded gussets, beads, and stiffness features that do not require a gage change.
• Design fastening with rivets, Hi-Loks, rivet nuts, bolts, and transfer drilling.
• Design weldments, including weld placement, sizing, and callouts.
• Produce installation models and 2D production and assembly drawings with GD&T to ASME Y14.5.
• Demonstrate first-principles problem solving, including identifying peak stress, field-fixing a cracked base without full redesign, and proposing alternate joining methods.
• Work on-site in California; be local or willing to relocate.
• Weldment design requires weld placement, sizing, and callouts—not merely familiarity with welding.
• Show high ownership and ability to move designs forward independently, finding the right people rather than waiting for instructions; mentorship is not formally assigned.

Nice to Haves

• Teamcenter experience.
• Defense, aerospace, or similar regulated-hardware experience, including aircraft sustainment, transporter/launcher, or ground systems.
• Electro-mechanical integration experience with conduit and harness routing in NX, junction boxes, hydraulic-line shielding, penetration fittings, and temperature extremes.
• DFM/DFA experience with a machine shop, sheet-metal vendor, and quality.
• Galvanic-corrosion control at dissimilar-metal interfaces using primer, paint, plastic barrier, sealant, or sealed fasteners.
• Reverse-engineering experience using limited data, metrology, or legacy drawings to create manufacturable NX models.
• Active Secret clearance.
• Light structural reasoning, including section build-up, doublers, gussets, and fatigue at a stress concentration.
• NX administration experience with templates, sheet-metal standards, or libraries.
• CAD-admin curiosity is a plus, but not a requirement.
• Dedicated FEA is handled by an analysis team; this is a design-heavy seat, not an analyst seat.